Can anyone fill me in on the genes for an Italian coturnix quail? Which color birds would you breed to get italian? Percentages, genotype, phenotype; all are welcome.
Hey all you quail keepers! I'm from Indiana and I'm looking to find other quail keepers from Indiana! Maybe this thread could be a place where we come for advice, emergencies, eggs, materials, ideas, incubators that you don't need anymore, etc. =] Hope this thread can be an active one!
So I have done a lot of researching and I have come across a few videos/articles/forum posts about using spent grain as feed for poultry, mostly chickens. They say it has about 30% protein and the nutrients are more easily accessible due to the whole process of using it in the making of... let's...
I have searched through the forum a few times and see a lot of discrepancy between all of the recommended heights. So far I've come up with a minimum of 7" and if you are planning on going over 18" you need it to be a lot taller so that they will not hit their heads when startled. For below 18"...
I've been bitten!!!!! .... by the poultry bug!
Well, where do I start? I've always been interested in self-sustainability. I think it is a great thing for our own health, physically and mentally, and wonderful for the environment. I have wanted to have chickens for a long time, but the...
I'm trying to get organized for my first hatch, researching, planning, constructing, etc. I have decided to get a couple dozen coturnix eggs and am trying to decide which incubator to buy. I have looked around and a good buy seems to be this LG Still-Air Incubator. I would like to get it, but...