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    Arizona Chickens

    Always start cuttings here in full shade, even in winter. You can wrap the top part of the cutting in grafting tape/parafilm that you can buy on Amazon so the top of the cutting doesn't dry out before the roots have a chance to form. It's also more successful to use coconut coir or peat moss as...
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    Arizona Chickens

    My sister breeds high production dwarf Nigerian goats in Rio Verde AZ. Google Rio Verde Udders. They are excellent milkers. It's interesting that hers can tolerate our heat well as most of her stock originated in this area, but last fall when she got three new ones from New Jersey for outcross...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Yes I've pickled them. I like them better as a spicy pickle! No one else in the family cares for them pickled except me so I don't make them very often.
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    Arizona Chickens

    Bobby I think the foodies like any meat thats novel and easy to get. I love lamb, any way it's prepared, but then I like venison, elk, quail etc. I make an herbed lamb stew that's great for cool weather eating. People don't even know it's lamb until I tell them. They assume it's beef. Maybe...
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    Arizona Chickens

    :frow It's been a long time since I've come here to post and wanted to say hi to everyone I already know and those I've not met yet.
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    Arizona Chickens

    You're welcome! I had others give me eggs when mine weren't laying. I'm just glad I'm still getting eggs at this time of year. No duck eggs but the pullets are starting to lay and some of the older girls are laying.
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    Arizona Chickens

    If you live in the city and have neighbors that are close space-wise consider brown leghorns. They make all the regular chicken sounds but at half or less volume than other chickens! Very nice to have quiet birds!
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    Arizona Chickens

    After much anticipation and seeing big-girl behaviors from my pullets (going in the nest boxes and squatting for me) I saw one of my brown leghorn pullets singing the egg song. I checked the nest boxes and sure enough, there was a pretty white pullet egg! Weird seeing a white egg, I've...
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    Arizona Chickens

    Still enjoying the olive eggers I got as chicks from you. Nice big green eggs! I can see some NNs are in my future. Nice to have that heat tolerance. Tempe is as bad as an HOA. Just keep your chickens out of the line of sight when someone looks over the fence.
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    Arizona Chickens

    I have fiberglass panels that let in some light, but they let in heat too. Metal would have been better. That's the thing with EEs, they can lay any color egg. I have one that lays true blue, another sage green. They do get paler as the season progresses so they can look almost white. He's...
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    Nesting button quail

    You can try something novel to distract the male. Put in some new dust bathing areas, bunches of edible greenery, dishes of meal worms etc. Good luck with your hatches!
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    Can we eat incubated infertile eggs?

    If they smell bad and the yolk disintegrates when the contents are put into a bowl I toss them. If they don't stink and the yolk seems intact I cook them and feed them to the dogs.
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    Quail gasping for air

    Sorry for your loss. It's a hard decision to make, but now she's not suffering.
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    Arizona Chickens

    He sure got a good home with you! I'm hoping his beak bump doesn't affect his health. Congrats on the new chicks!
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    Quail egg laying problems

    You are better off taking one of the males out or splitting the hens between the two in separate cages. Two males will bicker and cause stress, and it doesn't take much to stress them enough that they don't lay. A larger enclosure would help. Do they have an enticing place to lay their...
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    HELP... Abandoned eggs

    Yes they can still be viable! Get them into an incubator pronto. Something might have spooked your hen, or she may just have lost interest. Unfortunately it's more and more common for buttons not to set their eggs.
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    Quail stopped laying help

    They can also stop laying because they are molting or something has stressed them. Stress can be anything from predators lurking (real or imaginary), enclosure being moved, new quail neighbors, change in food etc.
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    MAJOR COTURNIX HELP NEEDED MAY DIE!

    It was probably the other male quail that injured your bird, not the predator. They need to be separated once matured, by 6-9 weeks, or they will eventually start to injure or kill each other. One of the realities of keeping coturnix is what to do with the extra males since you only keep one...
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    Arizona Chickens

    You need an incubator. Even banty chickens will break quail eggs. Their eggs are designed to be set by a tiny hen. A coturnix hen is only 6-15 ounces, chickens many times that. I bet the silver leghorn broke the eggs just because of her size, then ate them. Better to get an incubator. It's...
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    Arizona Chickens

    I have some brown leghorn pullets that are almost ready to lay. They are from a hatchery though. They are pretty cool chickens, sort of feral, but friendly too. They are excellent foragers and scout for predators. They take the place of a rooster in that regard. I think they are worth having...
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