➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[el dorado quail]

I'm glad - I chose them because my research indicated I'd be able to move them outside for the winters without trouble at some point. I was going to feel stupid if I was wrong.

You'll be fine @Maiahr ! I second the thing about them being fully grown, though. I had a customer take some of my fully-feathered 3 week olds outside in early spring and they did not do as well as I thought they would Indoor living until ~5-6 weeks except in the summer for me.


Okay, I will be setting eggs the 16th or 17th for sure. Going to be gone for the next few weekends in a row and was about to accidentally schedule a hatch right across one again like a dummy. Phew, avoided!


I'm gone on the weekend of the 21st because I'm picking up a purebred blue Flemish doe up near Redding. I am so excited. She is a brilliant match for him. I had started to give up hope thinking I was going to have to hardcore compromise on what I wanted, and then I lucked out by catching a reserved one where the buyer had backed out at the exact right time. Of course now there is a...five month difference in the ages of my pair? So no babies till next summer.


It's also a good thing my partner and I had already planned to celebrate our five year anniversary a week late already - he's a sweetheart for spending the actual day driving 150 miles to pick up a rabbit.

There are a couple fires up there be carefullll

 

[mixedUPturk]

I'm guessing they already have a roof? Honestly, I'd probably not bother with plastic.

Oh yes --thats a necessity! Thank you thats a relief. Ill probly go like the back and sides on the fully open enclosures and just leave that up til the heat returns (3 months later.) Might move the enclosures to sunnier areas for the season too and let the ground have a break where theyve been situated at (maybe help em keep laying.)

 

[ShrekDawg]

I'm glad - I chose them because my research indicated I'd be able to move them outside for the winters without trouble at some point. I was going to feel stupid if I was wrong.

You'll be fine @Maiahr ! I second the thing about them being fully grown, though. I had a customer take some of my fully-feathered 3 week olds outside in early spring and they did not do as well as I thought they would Indoor living until ~5-6 weeks except in the summer for me.


Okay, I will be setting eggs the 16th or 17th for sure. Going to be gone for the next few weekends in a row and was about to accidentally schedule a hatch right across one again like a dummy. Phew, avoided!


I'm gone on the weekend of the 21st because I'm picking up a purebred blue Flemish doe up near Redding. I am so excited. She is a brilliant match for him. I had started to give up hope thinking I was going to have to hardcore compromise on what I wanted, and then I lucked out by catching a reserved one where the buyer had backed out at the exact right time. Of course now there is a...five month difference in the ages of my pair? So no babies till next summer.


It's also a good thing my partner and I had already planned to celebrate our five year anniversary a week late already - he's a sweetheart for spending the actual day driving 150 miles to pick up a rabbit.

Awesome!! Post pics when you get her!! Or maybe there’s a rabbit thread or something LOL

And that is awesome!! He sounds like a real keeper!!

Also... 150 miles one way or round trip!?

 

[BantyChooks]

Oh yes --thats a necessity! Thank you thats a relief. Ill probly go like the back and sides on the fully open enclosures and just leave that up til the heat returns (3 months later.) Might move the enclosures to sunnier areas for the season too and let the ground have a break where theyve been situated at (maybe help em keep laying.)

 

[BantyChooks]

Thank you all about the temperature information! So relieving as I will be moving to live in a flat over the winter and I was wondering if I could keep the quails outside on the balcony.. I am happy now
I am setting up 70 eggs tomorrow (from 2 different suppliers + my own).

Great! Glad it'll work out.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

There are a couple fires up there be carefullll

Good reminder! I don't see any closures on I-5 active right now but that can always change quickly.

Awesome!! Post pics when you get her!! Or maybe there’s a rabbit thread or something LOL

And that is awesome!! He sounds like a real keeper!!

Also... 150 miles one way or round trip!?

There are, but they are not super active. Even the whole forums dedicated to rabbits are more or less ghost towns. Rabbit people do not go online, in general, except on Facebook. Is frustrating.

I made a thread a while back to avoid photobombing you all the time here, though.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/introducing-mr-blue-buns.1309724/

300 miles round trip....

 

[ShrekDawg]

Good reminder! I don't see any closures on I-5 active right now but that can always change quickly.



There are, but they are not super active. Even the whole forums dedicated to rabbits are more or less ghost towns. Rabbit people do not go online, in general, except on Facebook. Is frustrating.

I made a thread a while back to avoid photobombing you all the time here, though.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/introducing-mr-blue-buns.1309724/

300 miles round trip....

Aw darn! That sucks! wonder why?

And I’ll have to check it out! Thanks!

And oh wow!! That is a lot of driving!

 

[R2elk]

And oh wow!! That is a lot of driving!

Unlike in the eastern U. S., towns in the western states can be few and far between.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Unlike in the eastern U. S., towns in the western states can be few and far between.

Hmm that’s true!! Although sometimes even here driving from one end of the state to the other takes a while lol

And it seems she’s going to a different part of the state?

 

[R2elk]

Hmm that’s true!! Although sometimes even here driving from one end of the state to the other takes a while lol

And it seems she’s going to a different part of the state?

When I was going to college, it took a minimum of 4 hours to drive the 120 miles from home to school. It takes about 2 1/2 hours to drive the 180 miles between Casper and Cheyenne, WY. While it is a longer distance, it is not filled with lots of stops and 30 mph speed limits like in the eastern U.S.