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  1. CajunChickenGuy

    Decapitated duck!

    I have a small pen which had 8 young ducks in it. This morning I found a duck head, but the body was gone. I've had coons kill chickens, but there was no "feather bomb" indicating a coon attack. Most of what I read on the net says an owl is the likely culprit. I have seen owls in my trees...
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    Rooster tearing up one hen!

    My little flock of chickens (1 roo / 7 hens) is about a year old now and a couple of weeks ago I noticed one of my hens skin on her neck and head ripped open. My rooster has always been a little tough on his hens, but just feather loss. This hen looked horrible, so I isolated her to a cage and...
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    Easter Egger feather color/pattern to egg color correlation?

    So my EE's finally started laying a few weeks ago, and their eggs are all very pretty. I'm getting light blue, light green and tan eggs. I don't know which hen is laying which color egg and was wondering if there is any correlation to the feather color/pattern of the hen and the color of the...
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    Jumbo coturnix weight comparison anyone?

    Has anyone kept accurate records of the weekly weight of their jumbo coturnix? I am raising Turnbull Farms stock, and at 6 weeks they seem to be doing great. My curiosity mostly stems from my method of feeding. I called every feed store in my area and not a single one carries game bird...
  5. CajunChickenGuy

    quail testicles?

    I just processed my first cortunix quail...2 males. Each had two large white testicles which were each about the size of their hearts. I was really quite surprised how large they were. My chickens went crazy for them! So, are quail testicles normally this large? Just wondering if this is...
  6. CajunChickenGuy

    Rooster fertility questions

    I have 2 laying hens, 5 three month old hens and 5 three month old roos. I only want to keep one roo and have already picked him out. How often is a roo infertile? It would really suck to send the other 4 roos to freezer camp and then find out that the one I picked out is infertile. Should...
  7. CajunChickenGuy

    Fruit fly larvae in fermented feed

    My fermented feed bucket seems to attract lots of fruit flies. I use the single 5 gallon bucket method (no draining, just mixing in new feed/rainwater as needed) and have fruit fly larvae (not piles of them, but I can see them) on top of the feed and some on the sides of the bucket. BSF and...
  8. CajunChickenGuy

    Blastoderm question

    Hypothetical scenario: If a clutch of chicken eggs is incubated for 21+ days and none hatch, can they be cracked open to have the blastoderm checked for fertility? I'm just wondering if the fertility can still be determined after incubating eggs through term to show that they were fertile and...
  9. CajunChickenGuy

    Hot shipped quail eggs?

    I just got 4 dozen hatching quail eggs delivered to my house and tracking shows that they spent 9 hours in the delivery truck today. The box was quite warm...certainly 90+ degrees. Should I still wait 24 hours before putting them in the incubator, or should I start them now?
  10. CajunChickenGuy

    My inexpensive and easy black soldier fly bin

    Just wanted to show off my very easy and highly productive black soldier fly bin. This is just a cheap home depot plastic garbage can along with a few feet of 2" pvc pipe, 2 2" "street" 90 elbows, 2 kool-aid containers to catch my larvae, a 3/4 pvc T and sleeve and one inch piece of 3/4 pvc...
  11. CajunChickenGuy

    Turnbull Farms hatching quail egg reviews/opinions?

    I just ordered 48 jumbo brown quail hatching eggs and was wondering if anyone could share any past experiences with them? Hatch rate, size of eggs and quail (compared to other jumbo eggs/quail)? I found info on James Marie Farms about an hour after ordering from Turnbull...James Marie Farms...
  12. CajunChickenGuy

    Hen/Rooster minimum ratio?

    I've been trying to find the minimum # of hens per rooster ratio. Most of the info that I find gives the rule of thumb to be 10 hens per rooster. My 15 EE's were purchased as a straight run, so I'm going to hope for 6-8 hens. I have 2 coops that both have their own run (divided by chain link...
  13. CajunChickenGuy

    Hello from Louisiana

    Hello, I'm a long-time lurker that just joined to post a question about BSF larvae (posted under the feeding section). I've raised meat rabbits for a couple of years in the suburbs and recently moved to a couple of acres with chicken coops already in place. So I bought 3 feed store chicks to...
  14. CajunChickenGuy

    BSF larvae question

    Hello, long-time lurker just joined the site due to my first question that I couldn't easily find the answer to. I have an incredible amount of black soldier fly larvae under my rabbit cages. I'm guessing that BSF larvae gut-loaded with bunny berries are ok to feed to my chickens and quail...
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