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  1. kerry 2138

    Baby Quail Care????s

    I use a regular blender to grind crumbles for the first week. You can pick one up at wally world or the dollar store cheap. just fill it up a little less than half full and it will grind it quickly.
  2. kerry 2138

    Bobs Hatching but can't walk ... help please

    burlap sacking works well for newly hatched bobs. I have also used those cheap throw away painters drop clothes you can get at the big box stores. They have a texture that helps the chicks grip better so they don't get spraddle legged. Just cut a square big enough to fit the bottom of the brooder.
  3. kerry 2138

    Weird egg

    She'll be the guilty looking one.
  4. kerry 2138

    bobwhit,ringneck and chucker chicks for sale

    If you can tell me what to do and how to ship them safley. The big hatcherys won't ship less than 30 because they will get too cold.
  5. kerry 2138

    !st quail hatch of the year

    no piping but if you held an egg very lightly you could feel them moving inside.
  6. kerry 2138

    Do button quails have seizures?

    Could he have mites and be itching and be trying to dust. Do you have a dust bath in the cage?
  7. kerry 2138

    !st quail hatch of the year

    Just hatched my first batch of bobwhite for this year. hatched 217 of 256 fertile eggs. Is this a good average?
  8. kerry 2138

    Staggered Hatches?

    5 to 7 days between hatches.
  9. kerry 2138

    Staggered Hatches?

    I have done staggard hatches with cortnix and had no problems. But I didn't raise humidity much when hatching.
  10. kerry 2138

    Grow off pen

    I use 1/2 by 1 for growoff pens and it works really well.
  11. kerry 2138

    how many quail cages should I make?

    I started with 54 last march and by early july had hatched 1200. Build lots of cages if you are going to hatch bunches.For meat birds our cages are 4 ft wide and 2ft 6 inches 12 to 16 inches high we raise 50 to 60 birds in each. the cages are hung from the ceiling with porch swing chain from...
  12. kerry 2138

    bobwhit,ringneck and chucker chicks for sale

    I have just hatched bobwhite quail, pheasant and will soon have chucker chicks for sale.I am not set up to ship yet but you can pick them up at my farm. The quail are .50 each the pheasant are 2.00 as are the chucker. E-mail for Ph#
  13. kerry 2138

    Recipe for pickled quail eggs?

    If you add vinigar to the water,up to 50%, when you boil them they are much easyer to peel.
  14. kerry 2138

    Meat and Eggs - Progress of 8 week olds.

    Any way you cook them they will tast delisous. I like to wrap them in bacon and grill them with a little white pepper and a touch of garlic salt. I also use cherry wood to smoke them.
  15. kerry 2138

    finishing feed

    After 8wks you can mix 50% scratch with the feed. adding a little more each day till you reach 50% if they have grit available
  16. kerry 2138

    quail questions from a quail virgin.

    My father-in-law and I started off with 54 texas a&m pharoh last march they were just ready to start laying when we got them. By the end of july we had over 1200 and were giving away hundreds of eggs to friends. They are the fastest growing and breeding birds I have ever seen.
  17. kerry 2138

    babies hatching and interested in trading eggs...

    How about some georgia giant bobwhite eggs?
  18. kerry 2138

    Home made quail feed? Does anyone make/mill thier own?

    Any 24% protien bird feed should work. Just grind it up verry fine for the chicks or they can choke on it.
  19. kerry 2138

    Ringneck Pheasant is mean

    One of my male ringnecks grabbed my right index finger and took a chunk out of it on the side. I really think they have teeth sometimes. I use a plastic coffee can to feed them scratch and now I use it to fend him off.
  20. kerry 2138

    Pheasant Incubation..Day 24 question

    The first ringneck eggs I hatched hatched over five days starting on day 24. A few the first day more the second most on the third and then tapered off the next two days.:
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