➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[el dorado quail]

We are right on the edge of keeping the bananas alive. Zone 9a. It was an experiment that is going well. Learning about microclimates and such.

A lot of people keep birds for the eggs. I wanted poop. Sorry Kiki. Poop for the compost is working amazing. After the compost ages, I open it to the chickens and they disassemble the pile. Makes it easier to pick up. Feed bill drops drastically during the few weeks they are chewing the pile down. Bugs, microfauna, worms and such.

They have to stop eating my cucumbers though. And tomatoes, lettuce, radishes...

I like the poop and the eggs. I keep the birds out of the garden though. They get greens still that we throw to them - mostly weeds and cuttings. The problem is having enough greens for the 8 chickens, 14 quail, 4 turkeys and 3 ducks. They'll enjoy plenty when we harvest our small pea and greenbean patches soon.

I'm doing 6 inches of pine chips + stuff that doesn't fit in compost for the floor of my aviary. Can't wait for fall! Pine straw, leaves, grass, apple cores and peels, corn cobs, etc. Then in the spring I shall steal the top 4 inches and start anew! I've also been making this kind of spread out area of browns/greens mulch that's like 4x6ft and 5 inches deep for a tractor zone. It's in between 2 fruit trees so my hope is they'll poop poop poop, turn turn turn, and fertilize the fruit trees so I won't have to

 

[mixedUPturk]

I'm doing 6 inches of pine chips + stuff that doesn't fit in compost for the floor of my aviary. Can't wait for fall! Pine straw, leaves, grass, apple cores and peels, corn cobs, etc. Then in the spring I shall steal the top 4 inches and start anew! I've also been making this kind of spread out area of browns/greens mulch that's like 4x6ft and 5 inches deep for a tractor zone. It's in between 2 fruit trees so my hope is they'll poop poop poop, turn turn turn, and fertilize the fruit trees so I won't have to

Smart gal. I like to use the birds ti build up the ground in low areas also

 

[RUNuts]

I doubt it, the females are usually bigger than the males. The last time I hatched, they all evened out by 6 weeks.

Interesting. So the females are big at 2-4 weeks. At 6+ weeks, the sexes are close to the same size?

For B#3, the wild type male has always been small. The 2 white females(?) were always larger. Now they are about the same size. He has started to crow, listening for the other 2.

 

[el dorado quail]

Smart gal. I like to use the birds ti build up the ground in low areas also

I've got all this extra dirt from their aviary site too. Trying to figure where to put it lol

 

[mixedUPturk]

I've got all this extra dirt from their aviary site too. Trying to figure where to put it lol

Isnt your yard like rocks and weeds? If im remembering correctly you had limestone delivered and spread it into a really pretty path? Plans to put in flower beds in those areas? Maybe make a raised bed for veggies?

 

[Kiki]

I totally forgot about keeping an eye on the auction today.
I hope Muddy didn't win something I would have really wanted.

 

[muddy75]

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I totally forgot about keeping an eye on the auction today.
I hope Muddy didn't win something I would have really wanted.

you’re safe!! ended up being just 1 auction today....ended @1pm. it was 60 buyers choice but it went @$38. i can message you what’s up and when if that would help?

 

[BullChick]

There’s a 90% chance I won’t need to worry about another quail escaping. At the end of a long day of “I’m not tired! <yawn!>” the rat found a place where grass had obscured unleveled ground, and one heck of an opening. If she hadn’t been so off, she wouldn’t have seen it.

 

[Kiki]

There’s a 90% chance I won’t need to worry about another quail escaping. At the end of a long day of “I’m not tired! <yawn!>” the rat found a place where grass had obscured unleveled ground, and one heck of an opening. If she hadn’t been so off, she wouldn’t have seen it.

I've had a long day and I'm tired.
Can you say this in a different way?

I'm lost.

 

[BullChick]

Duckling found the hole in the quail pen simply because she was too tired to behave, and not get into the quails’ faces.