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    Earliest time of year to brood broilers outside

    I am located in southern Ontario, Canada. Our last frost date is typically May 15th or so. Last year we started our broilers in an outdoor brooder pen with much success, but it was not until mid June. We would like to do two batches of birds this year, as I am happy to do 50 birds at a time in...
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    Will cortunix eat mushroom?

    I'm looking at inoculating some logs with mushrooms in my quail pen (vermicompost bedding in the garage in winter in Canada), and want to see if anyone has experienced quail eating mushrooms? My guess is they won't but the mushroom endeavor is expensive and time consuming to start so I don't...
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    Our first meat bird (chicken) adventure

    I've had quail for a couple years now, mostly for eggs but I've processed and eaten a few. We couldn't get the normal organic farmer to grow out chickens for us this year so we ventured into doing it ourselves. I was hopeful that it would be like having large quail and in many respects it's...
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    Quail Hens turning on roo

    I've got a group of coturnix quail that have happily co-existed since November. Had one roo with seven girls. Lots of hiding spots, two levels in the deep bedding vermicompost litter, indoors. Feed ratios are correct. This group is hand tame, friendly birds. Suddenly a week ago one of the hens...
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    Strange egg shape

    I've got someone who is routinely laying an odd shaped egg. Very elongated. They are never fully intact (always have hairline cracks). Is this just a thing that happens or is this a sign of something I'm doing wrong that needs to be addressed?
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    Egg question

    I've got someone in our hatched hens who is laying a strange egg more often than not. I can't catch them laying so don't know which bird is doing it. Most days I get an egg that looks normal, covered with a heavy layer of dark chalky whitish powder. Not speckled white like you see in stressed...
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    Free ranging red rangers

    Hello, I am normally in the quail forums as they are the birds we have :D This year my chicken farmer isn't growing birds out so we've decided to do it ourselves. I have decided on the red rangers (the equivalent mix up here at our local hatchery). We are thinking to start with maybe 20 birds...
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    My quail adventures

    We started with one rescue quail a year ago and my how things have changed! We raise our quail on organic fermented feed, greens and bugs. They also snatch a few of the worms living in the deep litter vermicompost bedding system we have set up inside. I don't rest them over the winter and they...
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    Brooder questions

    First time hatching any birds for me. We have cortunix quail. I've got five of twenty eggs that have hatched. We use vermicompost bedding, so for the brooder I set up the smaller pen with and pine shavings to keep the ground warmer. So far all five chicks are eating the pine shavings. ☹ Because...
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    Broody roo?

    I feel so strange asking this. We started with a rescue quail that turned out to be a male. The wildlife center that had him figured he was young when they got him (I'm guessing less than eight weeks because he grew larger than when he was found). They kept him in a large dog crate for two...
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    Indoor vermicompost pen

    I've only had quail since March when we agreed to take a rescue quail from the local wildlife center. It was a roo so we realized in order for him to be happy he needed a group of girls. Our one rescue quail turned into another four females plus him and he settled in happily. I started with a...
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    vermicompost litter

    I've read somewhere (I thought here but can't find it now) of someone who used vermicompost as the deep litter method for quail bedding for an indoor pen. We are in the middle of building a new indoor 10' x 4' pen with the intent to try the deep litter vermicompost. I thought I better re-read on...
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