➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[RUNuts]

Okay, never mind about the bitter apple. Didn’t work. All four eggs were gone when I went and checked just now. I picked up the biggest turkey by his humongous shanks and carried him about 600 ft (according to DHs estimate) down to the previously vacant, no-longer-flooded chicken yard. Re-accumulating ATP at present. I cannot do that again just now.

Wagon? Truck bed? dolly? Good friend?

Use a deer hoist gambrel or throw a rope over a tree branch and haul the turkey to your working height. Tie the feet together.

Put ceramic eggs in the box and let them get a beak full of ceramic? Tie a leash around their necks and suggest they come with you?

 

[RUNuts]

I had to help an original quail just now.
I thought at first glance she broke a leg.

She is a week or two shy of turning one.

I don't understand. What did you do? What did she do? What is happening here?

 

[Kiki]

I don't understand. What did you do? What did she do? What is happening here?

I went to refresh waterers.
I saw her barely moving....hopping on one foot.
It happened so quick I didn't even think to take a video or a picture.
Anyways I'm not a nurse.
I put her in a box and called my helper.
One shot to the head.

I was going to practice cutting a head off but when I felt her I got sick.
She is just bones.

Is that better?

It was obvious that she wasn't feeling good and I wasn't going to let her suffer so we killed her quick.

 

[RUNuts]

I went to refresh waterers.
I saw her barely moving....hopping on one foot.
It happened so quick I didn't even think to take a video or a picture.
Anyways I'm not a nurse.
I put her in a box and called my helper.
One shot to the head.

I was going to practice cutting a head off but when I felt her I got sick.
She is just bones.

Is that better?

It was obvious that she wasn't feeling good and I wasn't going to let her suffer so we killed her quick.

Better yes. Hugs.

 

[Kiki]

Better yes. Hugs.

Im wondering if I should just off the rest of the originals now.

Is one old for a quail?

 

[Kiki]

I'm thinking I can Instapot them all and make dog treats.

I don't think I can eat them.
They were my first quail.

 

[Nabiki]

And then there were 7.

I got the coop completely enclosed, so I put the 8 chicks out there. I went out there, and a couple of them were panting and obviously hot, so I got some tiles out of the freezer and opened the coop to put them in. One of my (probably) young roosters (breast feathers were starting to turn red) decided to cull himself. The coop is only 18" tall, which I thought was short enough, and I didn't really see what happened, but suddenly he was flopping around and died. When I picked him up, his head was so loose I think he broke his neck somehow.

 

[Kiki]

And then there were 7.

I got the coop completely enclosed, so I put the 8 chicks out there. I went out there, and a couple of them were panting and obviously hot, so I got some tiles out of the freezer and opened the coop to put them in. One of my (probably) young roosters (breast feathers were starting to turn red) decided to cull himself. The coop is only 18" tall, which I thought was short enough, and I didn't really see what happened, but suddenly he was flopping around and died. When I picked him up, his head was so loose I think he broke his neck somehow.

Sorry.. The dummy probably spooked and jumpy up to hard/fast.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Wagon? Truck bed? dolly? Good friend?

Use a deer hoist gambrel or throw a rope over a tree branch and haul the turkey to your working height. Tie the feet together.

Put ceramic eggs in the box and let them get a beak full of ceramic? Tie a leash around their necks and suggest they come with you?

Ms. Cindy I would def seperate them you could use layers of straw and shavings to build up the ground in the pen where it floods. Sounds like if u could put em out the coop without the chickens escaping you could just rattle a feed dish or scoop and theyd follow close enough to step on ur heels(dont trip!)

 

[Nabiki]

Sorry.. The dummy probably spooked and jumpy up to hard/fast.

I think that's what happened. He probably would have been culled anyway if he was an extra roo, but I still feel bad.

Couldn't he have waited a couple of weeks until he was big enough to eat? (j/k, but only sort of?)