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I have been growing a small patch of Russian Red Kale. It is absolutely delicious! Easy to grow and bug resistant, too. I discovered that you can simply remove a leaf, place in water and it will grow roots in about a week or two. So I keep it going by putting a few leaves in one my...

I have raised my few coturnix for 3 weeks now on Manna Pro feed. They have done well and the smell has been manageable. I purchased some Nutrena gamebird feed (all I could get) and the smell is horrible now. It is 28% protein. What is the least 'stinky' poop producing feed that is available?

I have 7 jumbo Texas A&M chicks. The are two weeks old today and almost fully feathered. They are in the house at this point (in a plastic tote) and we keep the temp at 70 degrees or so night and day in our house. I turned off the heating lamp yesterday and made sure that there were no...

ECO 20 holds 60 quail eggs and I believe 24 chicken eggs. Best incubator I have ever owned. This is the manual turn model. Included is a small analog hygrometer that I purchased separately. Nothing wrong with incubator, just had to quit birds for a while. Wish I could continue to hatch...

Brinsea ECO manual turn model. Perfect condition. Used once. Hatched about 30 quail in it and it did an excellent job. The best incubator I have ever owned. It holds the humidity and temperature perfectly. Also, extremely easy to clean and sanitize. You can hardly hear it running. So...

I keep my birds on 1/2" x 1/2" hardware cloth. Most of the birds do fine, but I do have a few birds who seem to get swollen feet and suffer because they are on wire. Their feet bleed sometimes, also. I have not used 1/2' x 1" wire in a long while (especially since my birds are outside and...

I was reading another post about someone getting two eggs from their quail in one day. Well, this has happened now 2 days in a row. I have 5 hens and am getting 6 eggs. The only change I have made is changing to Nutrena feed from Purina. It was the only feed available and I had to have...

I have 23 beautiful quail and tomorrow they will be 6 weeks old. I got two eggs today for the first time. Amazing how soon they begin to lay! The roo's are crowing but not quite so loudly as last year. There are birds in my backyard that are much louder. As long as they don't crow in unison...

I just received my quail egg 'scissors' that opens the top of a quail egg smoothly and evenly. They work exactly as advertised and are extremely high quality. Only 8 dollars. Not sure who had suggested them on this site, but will be the best dollars I have spent in a while. No more...

Does anyone raise coturnix quail on natural feeds and not on store bought food? If so, what do you feed for them to thrive? I was thinking of other countries that struggle with food shortages and quaility of foods and thinking of how practical quail would be to raise if there was some sort of...

I have some 5 week old birds that I will be selling but only for pickup. I cannot ship. $2.00 each. I will be keeping only a few for breeders. PM me for more info. I am in middle Georgia.

I had my two week old quail in a plastic tub for a week with a 60 watt light bulb. Then I moved them to my outdoor storage building in a small cage with the same bulb. It go so hot during the day in that building that I went ahead and moved them to an outdoor pen with that same light bulb...

Anyone weighed their chicks at two to four weeks old to see if they may turn out to be jumbo's? Mine are two weeks old and getting quite large, but I would like to compare weights with someone else that has jumbo birds. I never weighed my other birds when they were young since I did not have a...

I have a shed that I keep my birds in and it has two windows with no other ventilation. The temp went up to 90 degrees even in this Spring weather. I do not have power to my building and it would cost 700.00 dollars to run power. So I went to Home Depot and purchased a 10 watt GAF solar gable...

Well, today was the 17th day and I currently have about 20 of my 48 eggs that have hatched into healthy baby quail! There are more on the way. These eggs were shipped and I know some will not hatch but am happy with the number so far. Kept the humidity at 40% thru day 14 and then 60% the rest...

Anyone use Listerine or a similar mouth wash as a disenfectant? I was given this idea by someone who raises many birds and hatches many birds. They put some in a spray bottle and clean waterers and feeders and incubators with the liquid. It kills 99.% of germs. I bought a large bottle at a...

I set 45 eggs today from some supposedly HUGE white coturnix quail. The eggs were no larger than my current stock's eggs. I ordered them online from a well advertised website promising large birds. My question is: Is it possible that huge birds can be hatched from normal or small eggs? Does...

Well, I just got busy and built an indoor quail cage to house just a few of my biggest and best Texas A&M breeders. Gonna try to deal with the poop on newspaper and then composting it to keep things clean and smelling good. I will try to post a pic if anyone is interested. I was able to build...

I am understanding that the jumbo quail are a few ounces larger than the Texas A&M birds (I know that there are some larger A&M's; I just have not seem them yet). It seems everyone has A&M birds in the 10 oz range. My question: Is the wider breasts of the A&M's preferable to the larger Jumbo...

I have been attempting to separate my birds so that the largest birds are together in one pen and the smallest ones are in one pen. I only have two pens at this point in my addiction. My question to someone with experience: Is there a magic formula to putting the birds together without them...