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  1. sommrluv

    Tatanka Breeders Club: Meat Quail project with history, discussion, pictures and videos

    I'm very interested in improving the quality of meat quail available and the breed standard. I've built up and exceeded our meat rabbits past the industry standard and food conversion ratios. Looking forward to a challenge and something else I can take lots and lots of notes on! :)
  2. sommrluv

    How About a Jumbo Co Op

    Does anyone have larger birds that is willing to sell chicks or eggs? I'm very detailed oriented and have improved my meat rabbits PAST the industry standard of feed ratio and weight ratio. I'd like to do the same for my coturnix.
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    Tatanka Breeders Club: Meat Quail project with history, discussion, pictures and videos

    Hi, is anyone selling eggs/chicks from their tatanka project? MobyQuail?
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    REALISTIC sizes for different quail breeds.

    Anyone?
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    REALISTIC sizes for different quail breeds.

    I apologize if this has been discussed before, I couldn't find anything in the archives. Are there any tried and true resources for realistic size of specific quail breeds? We breed for meat and I'm looking for live weights at the average butcher size. I've been burned three separate times...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    Is it the same amount of birds that have to be brought for the testing if you do NPIP vs. the PA testing? The app says you must bring all birds up to 300. We downsized a bit and no meat birds currently, so we have less than twenty but that's a lot of birds to drive two hours with! LOL
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    I guess it's my turn for "The neighbors dog got out"

    Thank you for the kind words. It's not a regular thing, so I want to be reasonable. I did take some detailed pictures just in case they were needed, and I think tomorrow afternoon I'll either leave a note or stop by and explain what I'm expecting. If eggs are going to cost me $40 to $60 and...
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    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    I'm absolutely interested in attending this, and my husband would likely come as well. Any more ideas on the when yet? If I'm interested in the tech cert (can someone tell me a little more about exactly what's involved?) Is there another session, or is it all included? Are we bringing birds...
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    I guess it's my turn for "The neighbors dog got out"

    This morning shortly before 8, our dogs started raising the predator alarm, and I look out the window to see a very large Siberian Husky running around my driveway and jumping at my fences. We ran outside and shoo'd the dog away, and found that my Giant Cochin Roo (still a juvenile), Phil, was...
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    My mucovies have become recluses.

    I FINALLY last week was able to be in the right place, at the right time, and locked them out of the run. Now...if only my husband was as motivated. So currently...EVERYONE is locked out of the run. The first day they were frantic to get back in, I thought they were going to hurt themselves...
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    My mucovies have become recluses.

    I don't want to be unclear...as I said in my OP, they DO come out...I've seen them eating, drinking. They no longer go OUTSIDE. We have a large coop with a big covered run (20 x 40ish? little bitter) and it's roofed, so shady. There is a door to the run, and a door to the outside. We will go...
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    My mucovies have become recluses.

    I don't believe so, because I think I would hear them. Or they would venture out at some point...maybe? I waited around this morning but they are no-shows. I'm going to keep haunting the coop. Yesterday I tried spraying water but they wouldn't come out. Can you tell I'm a little frustrated...
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    My mucovies have become recluses.

    I've been giving fishheads to the poultry for years. They've never eaten the bones. It's normally impressive how clean they pick it. I'm more concerned about rotting eggs than hatchability. Looks like we'll be tearing up some floorboards in our coop.
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    My mucovies have become recluses.

    Funny you mention fish, when we heard weird noises in the run late one night, one of them had come out to bang methodically on a fishhead I had given the girls. How hard do you think I have to try to get those eggs out of there?
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    My mucovies have become recluses.

    I did consider that they were setting on a clutch, but it's been over sixty days. Around day 45 I started to get concerned, but our coop is big enough that I can't see all the way underneath it with a flashlight. We do not have a drake, but I know they've been with my Rouen, as 8 weeks ago I...
  16. sommrluv

    My mucovies have become recluses.

    When we first got them, they would range all day and were very friendly. I had six. We butchered two very aggressive ones and traded two others for a different breed of duck. The two we had left remained normal, and than about two months ago they decided they wanted to live under the coop...
  17. sommrluv

    Hatching Rouen Eggs, question about internal pip

    Thank you!
  18. sommrluv

    Hatching Rouen Eggs, question about internal pip

    It is day 24 for me on this hatch. I started hearing chirping late last night. Should I stop turning them now? I have about 25 eggs set, but some might be muscovies. Everyone is candling well, I'm just not sure when the pipping normally occurs on duck eggs. Any advice would be appreciated.
  19. sommrluv

    Set eggs 5-12 Looking for hatching buddies

    I started duck eggs on the 11th, I might follow along just so I don't forget about them. :) This is my second hatch with a brower incubator...my twenty something eggs look empty in this giant. I found out last hatch I have some hot spots, so they are all pretty much gathered on one side. Duck...
  20. sommrluv

    4/17/12 Hatch buddy anyone?

    Well, out of 14 eggs, I have three beautiful cochin chicks. I hope they all make it. I went ahead and opened the eggs today and most of them just looked like...well, eggs. There was one fully formed dead chick. So sad. Not a great rate for my first hatch. The eggs were shipped, so I'm sure that...
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