Hope he enjoyed his last meal. My Buddy found this in one of his cages yesterday. Ate 3 of his hens. Cage is about 4 ft off the ground, he was so full that he couldn't get out.
My first hatch turned 5 weeks old today I took 8 hens and 2 roos for my breeder pen. the hens weigh 6.5 oz to 6.8oz and the roos weigh 7.4 and 7.5 ozs. Is this a good size for 5 wks? The other 9 I'm planning to butcher so what age or weight should I be looking for? I also have 80 more in the...
I hatched 80 brown coturnix chicks three days ago and out of the 80 13 are yellow chicks the rest brown. This is my second hatch of eggs and my friend that I got the eggs from has had six hatches and none of the others have been yellow. Is this normal or any ideas what is happening? Also...
Just getting started, I have 3 two week old Dominique chicks and just got an incubator and set 34 quail eggs yesterday. Found this site researching about quail, lots of great info and people ready to help. Looking forward to meeting some of you. PK