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  1. Northwest_Wannabe

    What does your Rabbit Hutch look like?

    I'd love to see photos or threads on your rabbit hutches! For rabbits, not chickens haha I'm looking into getting 2-3 rex rabbits within the year and I've gotten some inspiration from the few posts on here, and from reddit, I'm looking for what worked for you! For example I've seen a lot of...
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    Quail Chick Constantly Crying

    He hatched *hours* ago. No issues hatching, appears healthy not even a crooked toe. He's the second one to hatch, he's got a companion. Both are quail. It's heated, it's soft, it's not dark, there's places to get away from the heart, get to the heat, there's a featherduster AND MY HEADSET in...
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    Quail Chick with Weird / Backwards Leg (not a normal splay?)

    I told her not to name him. Today mom told me his name was Scooter. We're hatching quail for a friend, one or two came out with some little toe issues which have sorted themselves out. Except Scooter. Immediately from pulling him still kinda wet from the incubator his leg, wasn't right. I've...
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    How many nest boxes do they *really* need?

    I've been thinking about this lately. You always hear that everyone has that one nestbox that everybody likes to lay in, our Ladies pick one and there's a second that's a broodies like to go in, otherwise out of our nine nest boxes, seven go unused. My question is, in the future if I were to...
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    How Do You Keep Your Duck Pool Clean?

    So for starters; I have no ducks, I am not getting ducks anytime soon, I've had ducks in the past. I'm not trying to make a plan for building but moreso just want to learn, and answer a question I've been thinking on for the past few months. How we did it in the past was a kiddie pool, we...
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    Porter's Turkeys Prices?

    I've used the site for Years to look at turkey varieties and genetics, I never knew he sold them, but I see people have bought from him! Which is something I'd love to do some year in the future, issue is I don't see prices anywhere on the site... I found a page talking about ordering, but it...
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    Bearded Cochin Breeding Idea?

    I wasn't sure where to put this! Didn't see a "I want to develop a sort of chicken breed" forum area haha, now I don't have intentions to make something new to be added to the SOP or anything, but instead a fun breed to just have for myself and family and such : ) My mom (and I as well) always...
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    Where to get Live Mealworms?

    Live ones, not the dried dead ones ;D I want to start a Small colony just to test it out, we have a plastic bin with a lid (I'm making a ventilation spot in the lid) and I believe there's wheat bran at our WinCo, if not there's other stuff there I can use for them for sure, still in planning...
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    Friend has Single Silkie, what to do next?

    I don't know if this belongs here, I'm sorry. Let me start this by saying this is NOT my birds and I cannot change the situation, I would like to make a suggestion to the person who owns this bird, I just wanna make sure that when I do it's a final and complete thought/idea. A friend has a...
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    A Few More Quail Questions!

    I have accumulated a few more questions over theast few days and they're not entirely about coop/housing so I thought I'd make a new thread : ) General Questions; 1. Favorite Variety/Varieties! One thing I'd love to do is sell quail/hatching eggs so keeping varieties other people like would be...
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    Information to Include when Selling Birds?

    Hello! I tend to info-dump when doing... Well basically anything and I've been told it's annoying or that some people don't care, which I understand most people don't care about like the exact day a bird was born and such, but I'd love input on what information you include when selling birds and...
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    Quail Coop/Housing Questions

    Hello! It's still a long while until I'll be getting Coturnix Quail but I tend to hyperfocus and I love planning. Plus since a coop/cage is something an animal spends a lot of it's life in, I want to make sure it's something that works for them as well as me! :) First of all, I read in a forum...
  13. Northwest_Wannabe

    Predators for Country Birds

    Hello! I'm Cas and I currently live in the suburbs, we have a family of bald eagles and a few groups of hawks who frequent over but besides them and ONCE in the entire keeping of chickens here for years, we had one opossum. I know theres bigger badder things out in the country, and thats where...
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    How would you breed a barred bearded chicken?

    Having a little barred Easter Egger or any kind of bearded little lady has always been my dream, so I'm curious, what would YOU cross to make a barred bearded chicken? I think Easter Egger would be the easiest to aquire for one of the parents (to provide some beardy) but what would you cross...
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    Friendly / Tame Guinea Fowl Possible?

    Hello! Not any time soon but one day I'd love to own some Guinea's. I love the way they look, but the only ones I've met in person were Extremely Skittish and fearful of humans. Is it more just how they're raised? Or are they a more 'wild' bird? 1. Can Guinea's be tame? 2. Can they be Super...
  16. Northwest_Wannabe

    I should probably introduce myself by now :)

    Hello! I'm Cas : ) I live in the Pacific Northwest and have owned chickens for somewhere in 6-7 years now. I ventured into pigeons 4 years ago, we owned a duck for a summer (before deciding he'd be happiest at our friends few acres) and for a year in the middle on top of pigeons and chickens...
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