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    Growing out the birds

    I'm hatching 20+ coturnix quail eggs. I am interested in raising birds for meat, but I'm not figuring out the process. I want to keep the females for laying eggs, but they're also bigger than the males. I keep the biggest to breed and then process the others if I can spare them from my egg...
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    Quail temperament

    I've always read that coturnix are skittish. Supposedly everything makes them startle, flying straight up into the air and sometimes breaking their necks if the cage is too tall. Well, nobody told MY qiuail. Nothing startles them, including my ten lb rabbits hopping over to sniff them or the cat...
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    Oh, chickens and tweens are just neverending fun!

    Thanks to COVID, my 12.5 year old daughter's classes are all online. She's picked up the habit of bringing her chromebook outside so that her friends can see the chickens. It's a little distracting, but it's all good fun... until she came running inside screaming "MOMMMMMY!!!!! The chickens are...
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    Sous vide

    Has anybody used a sous vide to keep the water at the right temperature for plucking?
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    Dual purpose sex links

    My daughter got dual purpose sex link (cinnamon queen & black) chicks this week. We've got 10 pullets and 10 for the freezer. Do I need to let the boys get all the way to 18 weeks to process or can I do them younger like cornish hens? I'm the only person who eats chicken in my family, so not...
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    How old are they REALLY?

    We got black & red sex linked chicks in the mail. They arrived clueless about food and water, some still with umbilical cords (or whatever they're called on birds) and egg teeth, but others had some feathers on their wings already. Are they really only three days old? Do feathers show up that...
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    Housing question

    Like everybody else stuck at home, I'm wringing my hands and trying to think of useful things I can do to make life less stressful. I decided to raise coturnix quail. My daughter wants hens, but that's her problem, not mine. I've seen reasonably priced cages on shelving units that could go on...
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