Thank you very much. Just looked into the pinless peeper. I've seen them in passing over the years for sale but never paid attention to their uses. This could be the answer. Yes they get higher protein feed during molt. I've seen cannibalizing each other but not themselves before. I do think...
3 of 9 breese hens we have molted this season and never grew feathers back. Even worse is one of the two was eating her own flesh. They lost ALL their back feathers. Far more than any hens we've ever had before. From the base of their necks down to the tip of their tails. Put saddles on them...
I don't remember the sizes of our grow out pens. We have raised groups in the same pens for several decades. We move them around for fresh grazing. We feed milk to all our grow outs. Both by fermenting their feed in it, fresh or clabbered when we have that available. We have a lot of milk so...
I have bresse from several different breeders. I don't recommend them personally. At least not from any of the breeders I purchased from. Not been a good experience all the way around. Partly because we don't feed like they do in France I'm sure. I have done a milk fed/fermented feed batch of...
I have 3 broody Bresse hens out of 9 bresse and Australorp hens. 1 just hatched eggs and 1 just got DOCs. The 3rd will be stopped now that the other two have chicks. The 3rd is an awful mother and on the cull list anyways. I try and keep some hens for broodiness. The australorps are usually...
They will be automatically turned in the incubator. So far other than slightly longer incubation time it's the same as quail. That's fantastic. Thank you to all who have commented. ❤️
Hey all,
I've now done a few runs of quail eggs successfully and have decided that quail just aren't for us. I've swapped the rails in our incubator to start hatching our chicken eggs to raise meat birds from them. Normally we just wait for a broody hen to raise batches for us but I'm ready to...
Before I started hatching my own that is where I got my day old chicks from. Very nice folks. They raise a lot of them and they were very thrifty chicks. I believe they usually have them available on Fridays but that may change throughout the year. They said they have them year round when I got...
Mine started hatching this afternoon (day 16). Last time they all hatched day 17 and 18. Just never know. I keep the incubator going until all remaining eggs candled show they aren't viable anymore then I'll shut it down. So glad you held out and got chicks from them! Congratulations!
My last hatch I did dry hatch even though my elevation isn't high. Had good results under the circumstances. Humidity sat about 24-25% 100 to 100.5% temps. At lockdown bumped to 60-65% humidity. Was advised on this after struggling to keep humidity correct during the trial period of this...
I don't know about the differences of button quail from our coturnix but we give our baby quail (and chicken chicks) very young meal worms. We do provide plenty of grit for them though to be sure they can digest them well. Hopefully some folks will weigh in on button quail treats for you.
As did I. :lol: I've raised a ton of day oldish chicken chicks over the years but these quail make them look lazy. I've only raised one batch of day old quail until now so this was definitely a reminder of how different they are from chicken chicks.
Thanks! I am pretty happy with how it turned...
I completely misjudged the depth needed to keep them little jumpers in. :lol: Almost every one eventually made it out and it was a fairly tall Tupperware. They were hopping on other chicks that hatched or eggs as the eggs/shells rolled around. At least it gave me a count of shells so I knew how...