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  1. Sefirothe

    Thinking about quail and have questions.

    A butterfly net is a good idea. I was thinking a fish net, but worried the gaps in the netting would be too big and a bird might get a head stuck and strangled or something. I've just only read that they are or can be skittish as all get out, no one really talks about them being sorta tame or...
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    Shipped Chick Poll

    I've had about 30 chicks shipped over three orders. The first order was perfect, no issues at all. Second seemed to be a case of rough handling in transit. Four chicks were doa, to the point of having blood on beak and faces of some of them when I first opened the box. The four doa's were...
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    Thinking about quail and have questions.

    Eggs, incubator, starter food (non medicated), pen for brooding, etc ordered. I'm officially crazy. Other random-ish questions: Any tips for catching quail in a cage as big as this pen? In case of injured bird needing treatment or need to cull some boys or what ever reason. Can quail be...
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    Thats not bugs OR snow 🤧

    I use horse bedding pellets in my coop also........and my night time coop camera video looks exactly like the one @Echelontheory101 posted. I have 10 half grown pullets in there too tho so it totally could be chicken dander.
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    Chicken perch with poop board - I finally made one (!!!) and have questions

    I use a sand sifter to get some of the bigger small chunks of poo. In the past the juvenile hens I was integrating spent a lot of time hanging out on the poop tray trampling and picking poop piles to bits. I still mostly use the cat litter scoop but then the finer one gets used when the small...
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    Thinking about quail and have questions.

    Nope. Anything more than chicken starter crumble or layer pellets I’d have to go online to get. Or make the hour+ trip to the nearest TSC.
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    Thinking about quail and have questions.

    I am NOT a fan of pickles. And I can my own jelly so no jelly jar lids. But I do have a bunch of single piece mason jar storage lids that might do the trick. Looked up that Bluebonnet feed, looks to be better numbers than the Kalambach I found, thanks!!
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    Thinking about quail and have questions.

    Not sure how I missed that article before. Or maybe I didn’t and am just giving myself an info overload… But I can get Kalambach Pheasant starter off of Chewy and it comes close to your recommended numbers. Fat % is a little low. But it’s medicated. Is that good/bad or personal choice like...
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    Thinking about quail and have questions.

    I’m looking at getting 30 feather sexable Coturnix eggs and 30 jumbo white Coturnix eggs from MyShire. Found an incubator on Amazon that I think will work ok. I have hygrometer sensors already that I can toss one inside. For brooding, I was going to get a pop up pen to be kept in my basement...
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    8 female chicks need names (hopefully)

    I have a Swedish flower hen currently growing up in my flock. She is sweet, spicy, bossy and daring. I think she’s going to end up the top of her age mate’s flock. If mine didn’t already have a perfect name (Janeway after the Star Trek captain), I’d pick something like Saffron or Ginger.
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    Chicken Math Got Me Bad....

    That’s a pretty good idea. I actually might just stick a second feeder with the pelleted food in their brooder that’s been converted to a feeding station the adults can’t gain access to. I’d be curious to see how much of the adult pellets get eaten vs the chick crumbles.
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    Open Contest BYC Pets & Livestock Caption Contest 12-12-25 Pic by Gill-b

    Am caterpillar…turning into bootiful butterfly. Mmmmm….butter.
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    Open Contest BYC Pets & Livestock Caption Contest 12-12-25 Pic by Gill-b

    Just 5 more minutes mom….
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    Open Contest BYC Poultry Caption Contest 12-12-25 Pic by Nagem TX

    You want to WHAT now? Here? Are you crazy?
  15. Sefirothe

    Chicken Math Got Me Bad....

    We had some single digit temps recently so I lugged the heater out to the coop. There goes my electric bill… I know they probably don’t need it and if the littles were closer to full grown I probably wouldn’t have bothered. I’ve used this heater in the past more to keep eggs from freezing and...
  16. Sefirothe

    How many more hens can fit in this coop?

    There’s a big difference between a farmer’s flock of livestock and a backyard city flock seen as pets. And absolutely nothing wrong with either view and all the variable spaces between both ends of that spectrum. So long as the animals are given what they need and treated decently.
  17. Sefirothe

    Thinking about quail and have questions.

    That sounds pretty simple to set up. Gonna add a de-icer to my "to be purchased if I actually do this" list. Habitat seems to be sorted out with a few modifications and additions to my existing set up. Next to research is incubators/hatching and brooding!
  18. Sefirothe

    Thinking about quail and have questions.

    Thanks for answering my questions!
  19. Sefirothe

    Thinking about quail and have questions.

    Yea, this is partially to scratch my incubation itch (can’t have roosters here so no hatching chicken eggs) and partially to see if I even like raising quail. Your method is pretty much exactly how I transition my mail ordered chicks to nipple waterers so that’s great to know it works with...
  20. Sefirothe

    Thinking about quail and have questions.

    So will multiple males be ok as long as the ratio of 1 male to 4-5 females is kept? So a couple small wooden boxes (I’m thinking like guinea pig house sized?) would work better? The rabbit hutch would be kept in my basement safe from predators. I know how those things deteriorate when...
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