➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[RUNuts]

caught 1 raccoon this morning

Nice! Protein for the chickens? Boiled and stored in flock sized portions, of course.

 

[CindyinSD]

New dollar store hay racks! Tis a dish rack bent in half, attached to the swinging door for easy filling, and a chickenwire bottom with all the sharp ends carefully tucked away. @Sara L I think they turned out nice!

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Very cool! Nice-looking, too.
Could you maybe post a more comprehensive picture? I can imagine what it must look like in toto, but still it’d be nice to see the whole thing... also, doesn’t the hay fall through on the outside?

 

[sarabeth485]

So I put 18 good looking eggs in to lockdown on Wednesday. The plan was for a friend to take around half but life got in the way and now she can’t take any. Going to be another big group for the freezer I guess.

Shouldn’t get too far ahead of myself either I suppose. Nothing has hatched yet.

 

[RUNuts]

So I put 18 good looking eggs in to lockdown on Wednesday. The plan was for a friend to take around half but life got in the way and now she can’t take any. Going to be another big group for the freezer I guess.

Shouldn’t get too far ahead of myself either I suppose. Nothing has hatched yet.

The old saying, "don't count your chicks before they hatch", is having new meaning for me.

Even when they hatch, they all don't make it to the freezer. Should we say, don't count your chickens before they are on the plate?

 

[muddy75]

Nice! Protein for the chickens? Boiled and stored in flock sized portions, of course.

After dispatching we considered processing for freezer but he was a scrawny little trash panda so i didn’t even bother pulling the knives out. DH just buried whole thing as i didn’t need another carcass stinking up my cans this week! probable reasoning that attacks were typically Friday morning is that our garbage pickup is on Thursday!

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Very cool! Nice-looking, too.
Could you maybe post a more comprehensive picture? I can imagine what it must look like in toto, but still it’d be nice to see the whole thing... also, doesn’t the hay fall through on the outside?

It does a little bit for sure - I am thinking of just sliding a thin piece of plastic or wood into the back where they shouldn't be able to get to it to chew it. It already wastes a lot less than my former "lean a piece of flake up against a corner" strategy xD And keeps bored buns occupied longer!

 

[ShrekDawg]

It does a little bit for sure - I am thinking of just sliding a thin piece of plastic or wood into the back where they shouldn't be able to get to it to chew it. It already wastes a lot less than my former "lean a piece of flake up against a corner" strategy xD And keeps bored buns occupied longer!

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That’s a cool idea!!

 

[sarabeth485]

6 external pips!

 

[Kiki]

What color is this?

 

[CindyinSD]

It does a little bit for sure - I am thinking of just sliding a thin piece of plastic or wood into the back where they shouldn't be able to get to it to chew it. It already wastes a lot less than my former "lean a piece of flake up against a corner" strategy xD And keeps bored buns occupied longer!

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Love it! Simple, attractive and elegant. I’m wondering whether a left-over scrap of half-inch hardware cloth might not work too, and be unchewable (hopefully!). I really want to get some bunnies. Love yours!

Maybe this fall I can find some. We’re looking into a diy greenhouse as winter shelter for birds (including, hopefully, quail) & bunnies & tractor stuff and, in spring-fall, actually growing plants. It looks like it’s going to be tricky finding meat rabbits around here, though.