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I would encourage you to keep a light on them in the evening. They need 14 hours of light a day. I've kept the light on mine through the winter and their laying has not slowed down.

I've used kitchen shears that I bought from Walmart ($4) for the last year to skin my rabbits and dispatch and clean the quail. Then on a meat rabbit fb page someone mentioned the Joyce Chen scissors. I ordered some from Amazon and I love them! They are worth the extra expense. The people on the...

I went to Lowe's and bought some of the clear heavy duty plastic. I bought the clear, so the birds would get the light through it. Then, in an empty cage I put a heat lamp. I put that cage up against the cages with the birds, and it has helped to keep them warm. It has been a big hassle having...

Jchny2000, will TSC carry the Purina Gamebird food if you ask them to? I had no idea they would do that. I've been getting mine from Agri Products, and I like doing business with them, but it would be nice to know you could turn to someone else if Agri quit carrying it, or didn't have any on hand.

FireflyNights, did you keep your hens on the Startena even after they started laying? Robbie told me to switch to the layena when they were 5 or 6 weeks old (I can't remember which right now) and i did. I had about 1/3 of a bag of Startena left, and after a few weeks started adding it to the...

Striker911, I've recently tried both quail and bantam chickens. We live in town and are not allowed chickens. I thought the bantam would be small and quiet enough not to be noticed. I was right about them being small and quiet enough, but they sure were a mess. I started with 4 chicks. One by...

I purchased some eggs from James Marie Farms a while back, and my chicks are now 3 weeks old. I called Robbie at JMF for some extra nutritional advice yesterday. He told me that for chicks you plan on using for laying hens at 5 to 5 1/2 weeks you switch them to a feed that has no more than 20 to...