➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[007Sean]

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.
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Yeah, even with all my pens, every year I have to build some new temp shelters because of the fighting.

 

[007Sean]

I offed 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

Pretty tux's

 

[BantyChooks]

This was the other naughty pen. It was a rabbit cage, before the floor rotted out. (It was meant to be inside.) I'm planning to replace it with a nice one this spring.
I don't think I'd ever had to use it before that spring. I definitely hadn't planned on hatching so many roosters without a plan on who would take them. I ended up processing them, and now I can process my own, so I won't ever be stuck in mad-rooster limbo again. Phew.

 

[007Sean]

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

Hungry. I really don't blame them, there just doing what coons do but not with my birds. I lost a bunch of rare and expensive birds last year to coons.

 

[007Sean]

We've had a mountain lion around here for years...it never has tried to get in my pens. I've seen her ( she had cubs with her) walking by my pens but never tried to get to my birds....on the other hand only coons are my predator problem. There's a resident fox here too! never bothered my birds and coyotes don't bother them either.

 

[BullChick]

well i have good news, bad news, and really bad news....
My incubator arrived today and I was able to pick up my eggs at the post office where the postman left them inside safe and warm for me! (he was probably about to poo himself watching some crazy lady chase him down the block today in a robe and chicken boots! hahaha). We also spread crushed stone, pine chips, and sand in the run for the chickens/quail, built a new quail escape and bed from a plastic flower pot, and moved the Christmas chicks outside. Bad news is I had to cull my gimpy silkie today and and the really bad news is why I had to make that decision. I lost 2 more of my quail babies overnight to his flailing. So I’m now down to 11 survivors.

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

 

[RUNuts]

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• Kiki
• Aug 15, 2018

look how yellow they were.

hmm. I don't have any yellers.

 

[007Sean]

hmm. I don't have any yellers.

1 yellow, 2tux's the others look normal.

 

[RUNuts]

1 yellow, 2tux's the others look normal.

??? Let me go look again. They all look like chipmunks to me.

 

[RUNuts]

Nope. All look alike. What clues are you looking for? I'm lost.