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  1. DHinton

    Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

    the dispatching of the tiny animals is the hardest part for me. i use a hatchet. the little birds are dead very instantly.
  2. DHinton

    all who are hatching quail

    shorter days = no eggs. :/
  3. DHinton

    Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

    i've got a chicken coop, that i think i'd like to build a "hoop coop" around... but have chicken wire along the bottom, and like the bird netting along the upper areas. so that i could grow plants in it, out the reach of always-hungry mouths.
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    Mealworm farming

    they very well might have come with your shipment. afaik, you can feed them to your birds/lizards/whatever, just like the mealworms. i COULD be wrong... might want to double check that first. but, my yard-roaming chickens - eat all kinds of stuff... including god only knows what bugs.
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    Mealworm farming

    mine stay a lot warmer and i have tens of thousands from my original few thousand, and that's after feeding several thousand to my chickens, quail, and bearded dragon over the past several months. maybe keep them warmer? every time i scoop out a hundred or two, i think about what petsmart...
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    Mealworm farming

    i've heard of folks using the dermestids to clean up corpses and such in crickets/mealworm farms. i've been trying it with one of my mealworm colonies. the dermestids just don't seem to be thriving though. of course, the main dermestid colony gets actual critter corpses/skulls/etc, which...
  7. DHinton

    Mealworm farming

    http://www.thewcg.org.uk/pages/dermestidae.htm
  8. DHinton

    Mealworm farming

    is that a dermestid beetle larva/worm?
  9. DHinton

    Mealworm farming

    If I did this correctly, from my phone, there should be a picture of one and a half containers of frass, a newly emerged/still white darkling beetle, and a couple of pupae, with friends.
  10. DHinton

    pickled quail eggs

    awesome! thanks!
  11. DHinton

    pickled quail eggs

    just curious - has anyone tried throwing in some peppers, with pickled quail eggs? if so, did you have to change up the recipe any, other than tossing in the peppers and letting sit for a couple of weeks?
  12. DHinton

    fain tail and old dutch pigeons

    what would happen if the two crossed? would you get the collar and the fan tail together?
  13. DHinton

    fain tail and old dutch pigeons

    on a sidenote. i have chickens and quail and raise mealworms and bsfl (black soldier fly larvae) for treats. are these good treats for pigeons as well?
  14. DHinton

    fain tail and old dutch pigeons

    those are some sweet looking birds. good to know about the cross breeding. thanks!
  15. DHinton

    fain tail and old dutch pigeons

    cool, thanks. :-)
  16. DHinton

    quail eggs - to friends

    thanks everyone!
  17. DHinton

    quail eggs - to friends

    i seriously need to find me a restaurant. :)
  18. DHinton

    fain tail and old dutch pigeons

    What are the best uses for these? A friend is giving me a few of each.
  19. DHinton

    quail eggs - to friends

    without giving a long story... what would you sell "raw" quail eggs, for eating, for? $2 / dozen? $3 / dozen? i don't want to cheat anyone; but, i don't want to just give them away either.
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    processed coturnix

    say 14+ oz what would you buy / sell a fully processed quail for?
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