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    PEX automatic watering systems???

    OK, dredging up the ancient threads, but I am looking for PEX watering cups. Can anyone help?
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    Who is raising Texas A&M quail?

    I have been raising Bobwhite quail for bird dog training the last year or so. I also raise Cornish cross chickens for meat, several turkeys for Thanksgiving for us and for friends and neighbors, and keep a sizable laying flock (20-40 hens). I've been thinking of switching to the A&M quail and...
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    Nesting box/laying prep questions

    Hens will only lay in daylight hours but like to lay in the darkest place they can find. Make your boxes the darkest place your hens can get to. Don't let the sun shine in the boxes or the hens will avoid them.
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    Looking for ring-neck pheasant feed conversion info...

    Not really what I am looking for, but thank you for the reply. I was hoping more for a feed companies chart that would show how much feed a grower would need to feed the average bird through a 20 week period. I think I have found one that gives me the info I need. Thank you again.
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    Looking for ring-neck pheasant feed conversion info...

    My gun club has a very large flight pen for raising pheasants that has been idle for many years. I would like to resurrect it and raise a couple hundred birds for release. I would like to put together a proposal with feed costs figured into the total cost of raising birds to adulthood. Does...
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    Help! My rooster is attacking me!

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    Cracked/dent quail egg day 14 just about to lock down

    I would have just placed it back in the incubator and took my chances. I have only done this once before and the egg hatched. I have gotten to the point I only candle early, once or twice and as long as I see progressive development I let them ride out the incubation with as little handling as...
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    Cracked/dent quail egg day 14 just about to lock down

    Good luck! 🐔
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    Cracked/dent quail egg day 14 just about to lock down

    The nail polish will likely do more harm than good, the quail inside breaths through the shell. Not only will the polish seal the porousness needed to permit air flow it will contain harmful vapors. At this point I would let it ride and see what happens. It will likely hatch.
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    When is a spent hen?

    Spent is a term that applies to feed - egg production, conversion rates. When ever a hen eats more than she produces she is considered spent. Now, I am the very first to cull a sickly hen, however as long as a hen is healthy they are welcome in my flock. Usually hens that are older are more...
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    What to do when out of chicken feed?

    If your girls have enough good quality green pasture and some free choice oyster shell, your hens need nothing else. Some supplementary scratch is great. They will feed themselves if they have to, and will tend to thrive once they are accustomed to doing so. My 30+ hens have an area of about...
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    4 legged chick Clover

    :celebrate:clap:ya:wee:yesss: Good to hear that Clover has a good prognosis. Did the vet say that the extra legs absolutely needed to be removed? Could she have just as happy and healthy a life with the extra set of legs? Did the vet confirm the sex?
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    Killing weeds and grass, and volunteer plants before they start...

    I till/plow my 1/4 acre garden, then as I plant I cover the open spaces with cardboard and mulch. Usually sawdust, straw or wood chips, just to keep the cardboard from blowing away. Works great! Then just till it all in next spring!
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    4 legged chick Clover

    No, they sometimes make a ton of noise without appearing to open their beak at all. I've never asked any of them why they rub their beak on the ground. Wonder what their answer might be?
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    TSC survivors need some ID help

    Yep, those are chickens.
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    Massive Comb!!!!

    Hope it's warm where you live or he's bound to lose most of it. He is handsome.
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    4 legged chick Clover

    I'm a big fan of culling ill birds, but I would defiantly keep this one around as long as it was healthy. Too cool!!! It has to be named Lucky! After all how lucky was it to not get culled at the hatchery?
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    Should I cull my chicken

    Maybe so, however, to a novice poultry fancier, diagnosing any illness is guess work at best. In the time that someone with a sick chicken figures out what ails it, it has had all that time to transmit whatever to the rest. The only way to know for certain what your bird is suffering from is...
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    Should I cull my chicken

    Unfortunately the ideal time for culling has long past, but yes, any bird showing signs of illness should be, at the very least, isolated as soon as signs of illness show up. Not an easy thing to do but, unless you want and can afford to spend hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on a single...
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    Hello - new to chickens and learning

    :welcome
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