➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CindyinSD]

Last year I ended up with 70--80 birds in peak season. It shouldn't be as bad this year since I am not doing meat birds. Well, I'm not planning on it.

Yet!

 

[BantyChooks]

Yet!

 

[Kiki]

That makes sense!! Right now I just have 2 pens. The big girls coop and the temp pen for the littles. I’m building a new coop currently.

If I didn’t consolidate, I would only have 2 coops (since the pen for the little ones is temporary and I’m going to sell most and integrate the rest anyway) but I might just integrate everybody and leave them in the big coop.

We don’t really have bad winters anymore and my coops are right next to each other and right next to the house so it’s not really a ton of extra work for me but it is kind of a pain having to remember to check so many different feeders and waterers. I think I will probably integrate the female chicks with the main flock and sell the males but the problem is I’m adding more soon so I may need the old coop. But I have also considered canceling part of the order so I can house everybody in one coop.

Adding more soon....what!?
Have you lost your mind?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Adding more soon....what!?
Have you lost your mind?

no???

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

I have far too many other birds; all my pens are full and I need to build more quite badly. I don't even have space to assemble breeding pens at the moment, which I will have to do very soon if I want to get an early enough start to show the offspring this summer. On the top of my list right now is building some compact indoor housing for my Chinese painted quail. They are taking up far too much valuable floor space at the moment. Plus, I need to put together a temporary pen for my guinea pig because I need her nice and secure main pen as a brooder this spring.

My goals for this year were to start streamlining and simplifying my flock down to just a few species and not many varieties of each. Unfortunately, it's only February, and I have already nearly gotten peafowl, ordered far too many quail eggs, and made some plans to acquire Call ducks and even more OEGBs. That's not counting all the stuff I want to hatch from my own birds. Needless to say, I have decided I'll worry about simplifying next year.

Oh gosh wow I can see what you mean now!

It does look like your downsizing plans are going to have to wait till next year...or maybe the year after that?

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Oh no somehow I’ve got another 10 egg incubator being delivered tomorrow...

I have no idea how that’s happened

 

[ShrekDawg]

Oh no somehow I’ve got another 10 egg incubator being delivered tomorrow...

I have no idea how that’s happened

See @Kiki !? I’m not the only one with a bird addiction!! @Fur-N-Fowl and @BantyChooks have it bad!! Way worse than me.

 

[Kiki]

See @Kiki !? I’m not the only one with a bird addiction!! @Fur-N-Fowl and @BantyChooks have it bad!! Way worse than me.

They have jobs and their own houses.

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

See @Kiki !? I’m not the only one with a bird addiction!! @Fur-N-Fowl and @BantyChooks have it bad!! Way worse than me.

Shhh nooo! There’s no addiction here, my phone just automatically orders them and the eggs roll into the incubator by themselves!

 

[ShrekDawg]

They have jobs and their own houses.

I have a lot saved from the dog walking/sitting and pay for them with that! And my parents don’t mind the animals. Although my dad doesn’t really want more and has said it’s not a farm