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    Raising chicks in an outdoor brooder

    I would do it. We have one outdoor brooder that's just a plywood box 2 feet wide by 5 feet long by 3 feet high. It has a plywood floor. The entire lid is hinged and opens fully for cleaning. There's an attached outdoor run of the same dimensions, covered in 1/2-inch hardware cloth, including the...
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    Help! Tick infestation in coop!

    The good news is chickens eat ticks. The bad news is ticks have already invaded your yard and your garage. Permethrin is the cure.
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    Selective breeding cooperation

    Like! Buddying up according to the desire for certain traits is a spectacular idea! It could even push those traits a few cycles ahead in 1/2 the time. Hybrid vigor is where it's at.
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    Growing chicken food to replace feed.

    I'm trading slightly smaller meat birds and a few less eggs for a few more birds without freakishly large breasts and for a vast improvement in my family's self-sufficiency. Obviously, feed producers guard their recipes because their lives depend on it, but I'm guarding against the global...
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    Homemade Chicken Feed 200 lbs @ $0.39 per Pound

    I'll do that!
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    Pea protein for waterfowl starter feed

    Soy does grow larger breasts, but not just in meat birds. Some people reject that.
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    Feeds affecting laying?

    I agree! I'm doing whole soaked grain and I'll be planting some of my own. I've heard an seen enough. Last summer, my rabbits started showing signs of starvation. excessive shedding, abandoned litters, lost some adults in their prime. Heard about some deadly rabbit sickness. Dropped pellet feed...
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    2nd opinion needed - replacing wheat with rice?

    They'll eat the whole plant. Let them have it all!
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    2nd opinion needed - replacing wheat with rice?

    Flaxseed is high in protein, maybe 25%, if I remember correctly. Not as high as soy.
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    2nd opinion needed - replacing wheat with rice?

    Wow! I will make good as of that! Thanks!
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    New lone chick won't eat organic chick starter

    I dehydrate scrambled eggs then run it through the coffee grinder and store it in the freezer until hatching days come around again. I soak it very briefly and give it to very young chicks in the brooder.
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    Soft eggs in young quail - with pictures

    Break it up so they can eat it. Either give it in a separate dish or sprinkle some over there feed. You can smash up chicken egg shells too. Later you can smash up their own egg shells. They need calcium to form shells on their own eggs. Wild birds get it from eating shells and bones, even...
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    Female quail not laying eggs

    Maybe stop throwing her in the air until she feels better?
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    Ideas for ways and places to move and sell quail eggs

    I'd get the license but I'd hate washing them. I'd give them the quickest sprinkle of water. I think online sales will be easier if you can offer a few more products to bring in a wider audience. I'd keep separate websites though, one for people food, one for pet food. Look for local producers...
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    It's been interesting, for sure.

    Try keeping only hens in the ground coop for more eggs per square foot. Keep only 1 male with his hens in each cage and hatch their fertile eggs for replacements. And don't let the males see each other, especially if there's only wire between them. Their constant bickering will keep all the...
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    Help! Quail dying and now bald!?

    Give them some grit and a high protein seed or grain for a boost of nutrition. It might help regrow those feathers. Flax seed is something like 25% protein and you can probably buy a pound of it at the supermarket. I've had many animals showing signs of malnutrition on pellet feeds over the...
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    Dying quail

    Good Point! I've raised quail in years past and I'm now researching cage designs so I can start raising them again. I will not give them bedding material as it becomes filthy almost immediately. I'll keep food and water outside the wire and I'll replace the entire contents of their dust bath at...
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    Going out to feed/maintain/..slip on shoe recommendations?

    The kid's and I can all wear the same size flip flops so we just keep buckets of them by the doors for anyone coming in or going out. In mid seasons (spring & fall) we use old snow boots with felt liners removed. They fit almost everyone with liners removed. Maybe a little floppy on some but...
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    FOX: Is there ANY way to get EVICT them from the premises?

    Catch'em Alive traps from Tractor Supply. Drive them 10 miles away and let them go. We've instructed our boys to pee directly into every foxhole they can find. You can buy predator urine to sprinkle around. Don't choose a native animal like wolf or bear as it can attract them to you. Choose lion...
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    Grief after Predation

    Electric poultry fence and bird netting stretches over top. Stand pvc polls in the middle of the fenced in yard to lift the bird net up like a circus tent. This will give humans some head room when they enter and it will prevent hawks and eagles from reaching the chickens even if the dive bomb...
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