➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[ShrekDawg]

Btw I’m pretty sure the falb fee went over asking. $32. And there’s apparently another auction addict on there cause the guy that won won the sparkly ones too. Wonder what he’s gonna do with all those eggs

 

[ShrekDawg]

Btw the current auction (which for some reason didn’t show up for me until now?) is amazing. OMG. Good thing I don’t have cages built yet or I’d be bidding.

8 minutes left.... get on it.

 

[el dorado quail]

Vetch is toxic to non-ruminants. To be fair, many legumes must be cooked in order to be healthy food for humans. I’d probably not feed it to birds but I haven’t seen it much on our land and I don’t worry. The cows eat before the chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese anyway. Birds also seem to be pretty good about knowing what’s edible and what’s not, just imo. If it’s growing in your pens though, I’d pull it.

Nothing growing inside. Putting pine chips in today as a base for the aviary deep litter. Got a few shrubs like a dwarf willow, some woody sage, a coffeeberry bush, and a very old rosemary bush. I'll probably put in some raised beds with triticale eventually. But no vetch. I wonder if it's just the fruit/seed pods that are toxic. I'm going to be chopping all the cover crops for green manure/bedding so no blooms or seeding.

My chickens will pull hairy vetch out of the weed piles. The CX cleaned it out of the area. As with all things, moderation.

Can you moderate moderation? Can you overindulge in moderation?

Hmmm will be interesting to see what they'll eat.

 

[muddy75]

I'm going to have to euthanize at least 4 I think. Still have some pipped and one just hatched like 20 minutes ago. Your hatch stats are way higher than mine!

this is the best hatch for me in a long time! (even with the just had my first assist which may end up being a cull.....i fear he was stuck a little too long.....looked like a few more pips but I’m not too optimistic for many more

 

[ShrekDawg]

I can not do the whole raw thing yet.

I'm thinking about just loading my pressure cooker up with some and refrigerate them for the week.

That’s completely understandable!! Even I myself find it rather nasty haha I have done it before though several times but it is definitely gross so I totally get it haha

I think the pressure cooker thing is a good idea and cooked quail will still be just as good for them and just as tasty haha

 

[ShrekDawg]

Just for future reference... is $30 a good price for the one I posted about? It went for $30 and I think he had said he was looking for at least $28?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Holy mackerel.





Sorry... I am a major enabler.

 

[Kiki]

Just for future reference... is $30 a good price for the one I posted about? It went for $30 and I think he had said he was looking for at least $28?

No...that's too much.

 

[Kiki]

Holy mackerel.





Sorry... I am a major enabler.

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Go start a load of laundry.

 

[el dorado quail]

this is the best hatch for me in a long time! (even with the just had my first assist which may end up being a cull.....i fear he was stuck a little too long.....looked like a few more pips but I’m not too optimistic for many more

2 more of mine hatched and 6 are pipped. There's still 30ish? Eggs inside but probably half are ones we marked as questionable or probably deadzo