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    Lost 50 2wk old baby quails with this heat......

    Yesterday we had a 106 degrees here at home. Poor little critters couldn't withstand the heat eventhough they were in the shade and i even turned on a ocilating fan for them. I have over 300 quails and over 200 chicks, all of them ranging from new borns to 3 months old. Im concerned about...
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    It's Dinner Time!!!!

    Buthered 40 quails today, and this is my payment for such a strong effort. Mexican Style Gravy Quails with Mexican Rice and Refried Beans.......Yummy
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    My Coop, My Flock, My Geese, My Quail, My Chicks, My Doves.......Oh My!!!

    here is a small clip i filmed today of all my birds....
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    Help wirh Whire Doves..

    Hi, i bought 2 pairs of white doves a couple of months ago and had them in cages inside my chicken coop so they could get their orientation where they belonged. I released them about a week ago and they never left, they go outside and fly around for a while and come backto the coop. I built...
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    Breeding Meaties.......

    ok, so i was on the website of stromberg and found for meat production the Cornish Rock Cross Slow Growing Chicks. Since they are slow growth there is less problems with the leg issue, now if im able to raise them to maturity, i guess this would be a good base to start with in the crossings to...
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    Evolution of my Incubators......

    I was just going thru all the pics i have in my gallery and laughed as i saw my first incubator i built back in feb of 2012 and as i started evolving in the makings of my homemade incubators thru the whole year and a half until present time............its facinating how one evolves in over a...
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    Texas A&M and Pharaoh Quails Hatching Eggs For Sale

    I have for sale Texas A&M Quail and Pharaoh Quail Hatching Eggs 30 for $6 plus $13.00 shipping. You can order a particular breed or assorted. Payment thru Paypal only, they will be individuslly wrapped with plastic air bubbles for protection during transit but cant be held responsible for...
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    Eggs of my pullets just went to lockdown today......

    ok, i've been hatching eggs for some time now and i've had pretty decent hatch rates from eggs i've ordered or gotten from a nearby farm where they have mixed barnyard chickens. back in november i bought some production reds and golden comets from ideal poultry and my pullets just started...
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    First Time Setting Guinea Eggs.....

    hello everyone, i just set 35 guinea eggs day before yesterday. this is my first time with guineas, i was told its the same temp as chicken eggs and that it takes 27-28 days of incubation. i was told they are white guineas eggs and not more than a week old, so i should be allright incubating...
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    Set eggs today.....anyone else?

    Both my hens and quails just started laying eggs last weekend and decided to set them. I've heard that pullet eggs is a NO NO, well lets see what happens. I wont buy any more eggs and will start setting whatever I collect every week and set on Sundays. I set 2 dozens of my flock and 60 quail...
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    Hatchings of April 2013...

    After being abcent for a while due to family issues down in mexico regarding some properties that were sold, i finally came back in the middle of march and started incubating like crazy on a new GQF 1202 Cabinet Incubator i bought. Here is a small clip of 250+ babies i hatched during the whole...
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    First Time Building A Cabinet Incubator......

    hello everyone. well in the past year i've built homemade incubators from icechests, mini fridges, and standard size regrigerators but this is the first time building a cabinet incubator. on my way home i saw an old cabinet on the side of the road. i stopped checked it out and since i was...
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    Upgraded My Coop.....Long Sad Story Short

    hello everyone, to make a long sad story short, let me begin about my old coop. Back in Jan of 2012 i came across a big pile of wood of an old house that was demolished. I picked it up and built me a decent size coop. The bad thing about it is that i built no walls on it, i just used regular...
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    Question For Experienced Breeders........

    Hello everyone, I have a 25 Production Red Flock and was thinking to take away my Production Red Roosters and throw in 3 Black Jersey Giants/Black Sex Link Roosters. My idea is to produce bigger heavier females with the same productivity as the mothers but with the size of the father. If I do...
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    Showmaster Starter works for me.....

    I give my chicks from day one Showmaster Starter for the 1st 3 weeks along with terramycin in their water for the 1st 15 days to protect them from various disease. After the 1st 3 weeks of feeding instead of changing to Showmaster Finisher, i still keep on using the Starter but now i add...
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    Egg Sexing...... Just Set 30 Production Red Eggs............11/25........9pm

    After reading all comments on a Egg Sexing thread, I decided to give it a try. I just set 30 Production Red round bottom eggs and run a little experiment. Supposedly round bottom eggs give you females and pointed bottom eggs give you males. I really dont want males so I went all round...
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    Pics of yesterday's hatch and Beginning of Quail's hatch

    hello everyone, it's been a while since my last post but doesn't mean i've quit my hatching addiction. here some pics of yesterday's production red hatch (25 out of 35) and also the beginning hatch of my first time with quail eggs. i also set 89 production red on the 8th and have 8 turkey eggs...
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    Just set 92 eggs today August 27, 2012

    Just set 92 eggs today.......48 Production Reds and 44 of my barnyard mix..........here some pics of some of my flock. Production Reds Barnyard Mix Some Pics of my flock
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    New Improvement on Refridgeabator

    ok, several months ago i remodified (for 2nd time) my old refrigeabator i built back in the begining of this year. i brought it up back to standing position and built 3 shelves on it plus a brooder on the bottom part of it. I bought 12 plastic egg trays on ebay which holds 30 eggs on each tray...
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    Just Set 178 Eggs Today (May 8th).....Anyone Else?

    I know i promised my wife that the april hatch was the last one...............good thing i have a loving wife................I started making an adjustment on my fridgebator today, I was supposed to do this 2 months ago when i first built it (make it work) i got all excited back then when i saw...
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