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    Inherited coop

    Ok. Well I am glad to hear it. Seems like they have settled down a bit. I would imagine they will be just fine.
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    Concrete block chicken coop

    Lol. Not trying to be rude. If anything, just messing with them.
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    Inherited coop

    Also, regardless of what you do. They should calm down over the next few days once they settle into there new home. As far as additives, I am big fan of ACV. I will throw a little in the water for all my animals.
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    Inherited coop

    I would just turn them loose in the whole run. Give them room to move around so they are not freaking out and piling up in that tiny little corner next to the laying boxes. At least if they are huddled together in a corner of the pen they are not wedging themselves between something and piling...
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    Concrete block chicken coop

    How in the world did you find this old thread? and then proceed to reply to it? LMAO Talk about bringing something back from the dead. Did the OP ever end up building one? Would be interested to see what they came up with if they did.
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    Help! To modify old coop or not?!?

    Yea. I would always recommend having some kind of wind block. Not proud of it but when I first decided to get into keeping chickens around 8-9 years ago I had a rooster that got frostbite on his comb due to heavy winds and it was only in the upper 20s that night. He lived but till this day I...
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    Quail hatched in October, shouldn't they be laying by now?

    If you have the regular old Pharaoh Coturnix then you should easily be able to distinguish the males from females. Females have speckles/dots all over their chest where as the males have a rust colored chest (no dots or speckles).
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    Please show me your courtaix quail accommodation

    Well let me start by saying, I have never seen that much snow ever lol. Here in Central Alabama it very very rarely ever snows. Aside from maybe a snow flurry or 2 it has not snowed here in maybe 5 years and even then it was only maybe an inch and even that melted away by the afternoon.
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    Big Flop, looking for recommendations.

    Canada Jonkman Equipment LTD 28355 Fraser HWY Abbotsford, British Columbia V4X 1K9 Ph: (604) 857-2000 Fax: (604)-857-2001 ^^^This was on there site as an authorized dealer in Canada. Was unaware that they did not ship there products to Canada.
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    Big Flop, looking for recommendations.

    Look at getting one from GQF. They probably make the best there is for small scale hatching. Plus they sale replacement parts for the products in case something ever needs replacing down the road.
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    Big Flop, looking for recommendations.

    What king of incubator do you currently have? If your temperature is not consistent throughout the incubator then it sounds like you don't enough air circulation within the incubator. GQF makes really good incubators. I have one of there cabinet models and would highly recommend them to anyone...
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    Newborn quails not eating, flipping on their backs

    You should probably go get some actual Gamebird Starter which is available at TSC or your local feed store(which is probably cheaper than TSC) to ensure you are feeding them what they need. No offense to "the guy you got them from" but just because that is what he feeds his doesn't mean it's the...
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    Help! To modify old coop or not?!?

    Definitely just fix up what you have and keep in mind that there "free range" run area will need some sort of cover over the top of it else you will be running a buffet for hawks. You can buy large nylon poultry nets off of amazon for pretty cheap that work well for covering runs.
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    Please show me your courtaix quail accommodation

    I have 6 pens that are basically identical to what you have except that they are 3x8 and have no dividers. They have 1/2" hardware cloth for the floor. Those pens do work great for raising coturnix in. I use them now just to raise the birds that end up in the freezer. It's an easy build that...
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    Large, Open-Air Coop in Central NC

    Looks like it is coming together nicely. Can't wait to see the finished product. Keep posting pictures of the progress.
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    Please show me your courtaix quail accommodation

    Here is an extremely simple 7x12 structure. I built this 8+ years ago and had no idea what I was doing at the time and am still using it to this day. Currently it houses 11 Bobwhites but will hold Coturnix as well.
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    Need Help ASAP

    You could get a 50-100ft roll of 2x4 fencing and tie it in to the existing chain link fence to form a square/rectangle and stretch a big poultry net over the whole area attaching the edges of the net to the top of the 2x4 and chain link fence. You can order nylon poultry nets off of amazon. They...
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    Need advice adding onto coop. FYI, make it bigger than you think you need. . .

    Use 3KillerBs space requirements as a good guideline of how much space each chicken needs. Also, keep in mind that this is the minimum space requirements per bird. I say build it as large as you can. As Percheron chick stated, you could look into selling your current coop/run and put that money...
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    Chicken Pen

    Since this is a new chicken pen, I decided to buy a new nest box since my other 2 have clearly seen better days. I ordered an 8 hole nest box from Duncan Poultry which showed up this past weekend. Got it put together yesterday and will try and get it hung up this weekend. I also bought a 50lb...
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    Chicken Pen

    It really is crazy. This chicken pen build cost me way more than what it would have costed me just a few years ago. I recently just built a 10x16 shelter for goats with a 1ft overhang on all sides. Haven't even put walls on it yet and it cost $694 and that's not including screws and nails.
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