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  1. RichardandTresa

    Hens stopped laying after dispatching "other" chickens

    I've been searching here for answers to our decrease in egg production. We have 9 hens in a LARGE coop and LARGE run. They were all hatched this past spring and egg production slowly (but steadily), grew (Most eggs ever collected were 8)... They've been on 17% layer feed for quite a while...
  2. RichardandTresa

    Calibrating Digital Incubator Thermometers

    I've Got a brooder full of my first Quail hatch and getting ready to set 40 more eggs today or tomorrow. My first hatch happened one day early and there were several "runts". It was brought to my attention that I either chose to hatch some very small eggs OR... I may have had my incubator...
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    Coturnix Chicks Dieing. Chill? Virus? Runts just giving way to nature?

    Hello all. First thank you for all that I've learned here. I have probably read EVERY thread here... Really! This will be our third batch of chicks in our brooder... Our first chicks hatched in our LG incubator. Set 49 eggs (several were certainly from a breeding quad where the male was...
  4. RichardandTresa

    Modified Little Giant Incubator, NEW 2nd Modification! (Photos!)

    I found an older “little giant” incubator on Craigslist for $45 including two complete egg turners and a stock fan installed. Couldn’t pass it up in spite of much of what I’ve heard regarding reliability. The wafer thermostat does fluctuate a lot, however, I came up with an idea that seems to...
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    Interesting Hen Death... What to do?

    We found a dead hen in one of our breeder pens this morning. There was a wound on it's chest that was distinctly a quail's beak bite (Two triangular wounds, close together.... about 1/2" apart) with no other marks. Details: The Hen was part of a breeding quad (Top cage), that came from the...
  6. RichardandTresa

    Artificial Light for Egg Production: Specific Type Bulb? Photos of pens, feeders and watering system

    Hello All and thank you so much for everything we've learned about Quail I've read practically every thread here (really! Didn't want to begin until I had a really good idea as to what we were getting into!), learning as much as we could. We Currently have 27 Jumbo Brown Coturnix in a home...
  7. RichardandTresa

    Professional designer builds new pens with custom feeders and watering system!

    First off, I want to thank everyone here for all their input on this forum. I'm pretty sure I've read nearly EVERY thread here! (Really! When I get into something, I REALLY get into it! Some say obsessed, others just know me.) LOL! Second, I wanted to post photos here (I still may be able to)...
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