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Good news on crazy hen. A few moments of seeing her nemesis and she decided to chill out a bit with her current roommates. The roo in her pen already knows she's crazy and has no interest in pursuing her and the other hens ignore her and go around. They're like psychoanalyst housemates...

I set more eggs than chicks I planned to keep, so I put out a preorder waitlist on Craigslist The buyer wanted all of them so I sold them and started a new hatch. Part of me said "wow that was easy" and the other part of me was grateful that he already raised poultry so he knew what he was...

I sold a full hatch once. It was a quick & easy transition. Not sure why I don't do it more often. There's definitely a shortage of quail available to the average buyer here. You have to know who breeds them to get them. I'm sure after I recuperate from this last set I'll start up the...

They really don't have names. It would just be a lot less of a story if I called them Quail 1 and Quail 2. Crazy hen though, ought to have a name. I am emotionally attached: I'm the one who failed her. She was in my first hatch. Before I got better about culling the roos, she was the roo...

The roo was culled to make room for a roo from the new batch. Hoppy the injured hen was given to a perfect family to become an indoor pet. (Even though she's alone, she's safe and will have people attention all the time. Last I heard, she was cuddling with some rescue chicken chicks.) Crazy...

Not sure why I have such a hard time with culling these hens. It might be that there's such a long history with these girls. Tina would be fine in the gen pop (not with the picky roo), but Hoppy's energy is starting to decline, so it might be time to say goodbye. I'm going to have to make a...

I have three hens that I'm thinking of starting a girls-only pen for. They are: 1. (No name, but Crazy Italian Hen seems to have stuck as a description) A beautiful big bird I've bred several times. She's been the trophy mount (prize) for several males and now hates them. She will chase...