➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[BantyChooks]

Have you tested it yet?...Go touch it tonight see how it feels.

Um, no. It's off now, silly. The bears are all sleeping and the snow is too deep to use it anyway.

I don't need to touch it. I used the tester on it and I watched the goats flip out when they touched it.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I offer my two Street Foods.
They were too small for needs.

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• Kiki
• Sep 22, 2018

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• Kiki
• Sep 22, 2018

It is what it is, you gotta balance your priorities!


Soooo, I ordered eggs a while back and didn't mention anything because I wasn't sure if they were coming or not (people keep sending me eggs without tracking numbers...), but they just unexpectedly appeared. Should be all pearls (I have silvers; I can make my own snowies) and recessive lavender/bleus. I had made peace with not getting them because I did swear I wasn't going to do another hatch before spring But now they can all go in the incubator at the same time as the one's I'm collecting.

 

[007Sean]

I dispose of 5 to 10 coons every spring. As soon as I move my juveniles to the outside brooders...the coons show up.
I leave steel traps set year round. Even with 1" x 1/2" welded wire, the young coons still manage to pull them through the mesh.
Very disheartening to find pieces of your birds all over the ground and brooder.
Once I thought someone had taken my birds nothing but blood stains, no feathers, bones, nothing....I absolutely hate coons.

 

[Kiki]

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• Kiki
• Aug 15, 2018

look how yellow they were.

 

[BantyChooks]

I dispose of 5 to 10 coons every spring. As soon as I move my juveniles to the outside brooders...the coons show up.
I leave steel traps set year round. Even with 1" x 1/2" welded wire, the young coons still manage to pull them through the mesh.
Very disheartening to find pieces of your birds all over the ground and brooder.
Once I thought someone had taken my birds nothing but blood stains, no feathers, bones, nothing....I absolutely hate coons.

My goodness. I'm so sorry.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

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• Kiki
• Aug 15, 2018

look how yellow they were.

NOOOOO KIKI! You did good! Your flock will meet your needs better in the future!

 

[BantyChooks]

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• Kiki
• Aug 15, 2018

look how yellow they were.

I wanted to steal them.

 

[007Sean]

Last year they wiped out two brooders, both had 14 birds in them. They pulled them through the wire, one night while I was at work. Caught 3 of them that night and 5 the next night. One group were all boars, batchelor group, the other was mom and 2 cubs.

 

[BantyChooks]

My goodness. I'm so sorry.

Last year (not during bear season,) because I was so completely out of pens, I kept two roosters and a duck in here during nights for at least a month. Not one attempt on their life. I still wouldn't have done it if I hadn't absolutely had to in order to keep them from severely injuring the other birds. The drake was a rapist that made the hens bleed, and the roosters were fighting so badly that they ended every week with eyes swollen shut and feathering soaked in blood. I had way too many cockerels for the roosters to keep in line, at the time. That's why there was so much conflict.

 

[BantyChooks]

Last year they wiped out two brooders, both had 14 birds in them. They pulled them through the wire, one night while I was at work. Caught 3 of them that night and 5 the next night. One group were all boars, batchelor group, the other was mom and 2 cubs.

That's awful. Any idea why they're so stubborn?