I HAD A QUAIL HEN THAT LAYED SHELL-LESS EGGS WHEN I SEPERATED HER TO CHECK GENDER. FROM WHAT I'VE READ ONLINE AND ON THIS SITE ITS USUALLY DUE TO STRESS MAYBE BEING IN A NEW COOP THAT THEY'RE NOT USED TO. MAYBE TRY GIVING THEM SOME OYSTER SHELL IT COULD BE LACK OF CALCIUM, I'M NO EXPERT BUT...
I BOUGHT MY CHICKENS FROM THE FEED STORE AND TRACTOR SUPPLY COMPANY AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE A MINIMUM REQUIREMENT. BUT NOT ALL FEED STORES AND TSC HAVE THEM AVAILABLE BUT ITS WORTH A TRY IF YOU'RE NOT TOO PARTICULAR ON THE BREED
MY 4 MONTH OLD GERMAN SHEPHERD PUP LOVES TO EAT LAYER PELLETS AND GAME FEED SO I GIVE HIM A HANDFUL WHEN I'M FEEDING THE BIRDS SO HE DOESN'T MESS WITH THE BAG WHEN I'M NOT WATCHING. I HAVE A PUPPY CHOW THAT'S 78% PROTIEN THAT I WANT TO TRY AS A TREAT EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE FOR MY COTURNIX QUAIL...
SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE COMPUTER I'M USING BECAUSE I CANT REPLY BY DESKTOP I HAVE TO SWITCH COMPUTER TO MOBILE VERSION AND I DONT HAVE THOSE ICONS ON DESKTOP OR MOBILE BUT I WILL TRY AT HOME MAYBE ITS JUST MY WORK COMPUTER AND ALL THE BLOCKS THE COMPANY PUTS UP THANKS FOR THE INFO
THERE ARE 5 HENS AND 2 ROOS PER BREEDER PEN SO 14 TOTAL GOING IN THE COOP WITH ANOTHER 20 MIXED HEN/ROO. I'M PUTTING SAND ON THE GROUND IN THE ENCLOSURE SO I MAY JUST PUT THEM ALL ON THE GROUND FOR AWHILE INSTEAD OF IN THE COOP. THAT WILL PUT THEM ALL OUT OF THEIR ELEMENT AND THE LOVE PLAYING IN...
THEY ARE 14-17 WEEKS AND WERE ALL RAISED TOGETHER UNTIL I SEPERATED THE KNOWN FEMALES. A WEEK OR SO AFTER THAT I ADDED THE ROOS TO THE BREEDING PENS, IT TOOK A COUPLE TRIES BUT FINALLY FOUND STRONG ENOUGH ROOS TO SURVIVE THE HENS AND NOT GET PECKED. I WAS PLANNING ON REINTRODUCING THEM THIS...
I HAVE A LARGE COOP THAT IS A DOUBLE DECKER THAT I KEEP THE UNKNOWN GENDER QUAIL IN. I'M THINKING ABOUT PUTTING ALL OF THEM IN THERE FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS THEN SEPERATING A FEW BREEDERS. MAYBE THE MOVE WILL RESET THE PECKING ORDER AND CALM ALL THE BIRDS DOWN...
OK I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO POST A PIC SO IF ANYONE IS WONDERING HOW YOU CLICK ON THE PIC YOU WANT AND COPY THE SHORT CUT AND PASTE IT ON A REPLY. I WILL BE POSTING PICS SHORTLY ON THE FIRST POST
HELLO BYCERS I WANTED TO SHARE MY LITTLE FLOCK WITH YALL. MY FLOCK CONSIST OF 45 COTURNIX QUAIL, 4 RHODE ISLAND RED HENS, 6 GOLDEN LACED WYANDOTTES (2 ROOS), 9 HOMING PIGEONS AND MY GERMAN SHEPHARD PUP. I WILL TRY TO POST PICS BUT MY PROFILE HAS LOTS OF PICS...