Has anyone seen or are raising this new feather pattern of Coturnix? They call it Barred Rock!
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Spilled some water from a waterer while feeding and watering my birds. It's been so hot and dry that any wet spot is immediately used to cool off with a mud bath! 🤣
Had to take this video of the joyful bathing party!
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Don't know what will become of this? She may continue to sit or she may quit? She's in an enclosure that is all female birds, including the Ringnecked hen that lost her ovaries and a post-perotinitus Reeves hen. A pen for 'misfits'! 🤣
She was setting on infertile eggs, (6) so I switched them...
Had some quail missing yesterday! Got home from work this morning to find out the culprit, 5 foot Bullsnake. Had 3 more quail and a pheasant egg it had eaten last night or early this morning.
Where theres one....theres more!
While feeding this afternoon, I saw 6 chicks and the male guarding them...he was showing them off to the neighboring pheasants! :D there's a gap between the two pens...the pheasants don't bother the quail.
Anyway, I didn't know they had a nest...after the first nest was destroyed by a snake...
Here's an article I found on whether to refer to the last 3 days of the incubation process as "lockdown" or "hatching" and to whether lockdown should be eliminated from poultry jargon and dictionaries.
Personally, I have never liked that term to explain a part of the incubation process, it's...
Iduma Bird and Animal
Just a quick reminder about our next sale this Sunday, October 14th at 10:00 a.m.
Cooler weather has arrived!!!!!.
We have been promised 9 sets of nice white bobwhites and 9 sets of some exceptional lady amherst, as well as laying hens and a plethora of other birds and...
Iduma Small Bird and Animal Sale
This is a great sale/auction. Have been there many times.
Just a quick reminder about our next sale this Sunday, May 13th at 10:00 a.m.
First of all... Happy Early Mother's Day!!!!!
Looking forward to another great sale. We have a lot of laying hens/pullets...
A dear friend, who is also a member here, @bdfive sent me this link. Like her, I'm in no way connected with this video or trying to promote the videos, books, etc. Just thought I'd post the link and let everyone make their on decisions, opinions, of these series of free videos...
@N F C and @drumstick diva as promised, I found a few pics and 1 of the squid taken on a night dive. Base Commanders House, Air Field Welcome sign, and a few pics of trigger fish, surgeon fish and convict fish on the near shore lagoon reef. And a pic of some dummie ;) that just had to go to...
I'm curious if something can be done about the plethora of zombie threads that have occurred of late?
Some post approaching 10 years have been resurrected by newbies or lurkers that read a thread, sign up just to respond to said thread not realizing the OP hasn't been active in months and in...
This is a really great auction in the Central Texas region, Killeen, Texas
Just a quick reminder about our next sale this Sunday, February 11, 2018 at 10:00 a.m.
Looking forward to another great sale. We have 20 big white turkeys coming as well as a good selection of peafowl.
As usual we...