➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

sorry for going “dark” for so long today....I’ve been absolutely “sick” since lunchtime!! And since 3:30, i’ve just been “madder than hell!!”
I thoroughly researched everything prior to getting my first bird due to being “annexed into city limits” a few years ago. While the city had been trying to ban roosters, they kept getting shot down! Today we got our lovely visit from “code enforcement” while my DS was home for lunch. DH called to inquire about the visit and we finally got a live person on the phone around 3:30.
supposedly they just passed a new ordinance defining any fowl or animal that is caged or cooped outdoors as “livestock” and a resident may only have total of 8 period and they have to be housed and kept a minimum of 35 ft from any property line and cannot make noise. or they have to be inside your actual house. nothing is published yet, there was no “advance notice” of any new ordinance being discussed, and they have not yet notified us in writing of the details of “said ordinance”. this is based so far on phone interpretation but said it does include chickens, coturnix quail, gamebirds, rabbits etc. so basically I have until whatever deadline they give me to re-home or butcher everything but my dogs and the butttons and finches that are in my house. (their deadlines are usually 2-4 weeks max)......and i’m sure like all the bs ordinances here, it’s only selectively enforced based on complaints and unfortunately I’ve been a magnet for such for the entire 15+ years we’ve lived here. hopefully you guys may have some advice on how to “fight city hall”????

Fudge.

 

[Kiki]

Shoot Mud this sucks.

 

[BReeder!]

sorry for going “dark” for so long today....I’ve been absolutely “sick” since lunchtime!! And since 3:30, i’ve just been “madder than hell!!”
I thoroughly researched everything prior to getting my first bird due to being “annexed into city limits” a few years ago. While the city had been trying to ban roosters, they kept getting shot down! Today we got our lovely visit from “code enforcement” while my DS was home for lunch. DH called to inquire about the visit and we finally got a live person on the phone around 3:30.
supposedly they just passed a new ordinance defining any fowl or animal that is caged or cooped outdoors as “livestock” and a resident may only have total of 8 period and they have to be housed and kept a minimum of 35 ft from any property line and cannot make noise. or they have to be inside your actual house. nothing is published yet, there was no “advance notice” of any new ordinance being discussed, and they have not yet notified us in writing of the details of “said ordinance”. this is based so far on phone interpretation but said it does include chickens, coturnix quail, gamebirds, rabbits etc. so basically I have until whatever deadline they give me to re-home or butcher everything but my dogs and the butttons and finches that are in my house. (their deadlines are usually 2-4 weeks max)......and i’m sure like all the bs ordinances here, it’s only selectively enforced based on complaints and unfortunately I’ve been a magnet for such for the entire 15+ years we’ve lived here. hopefully you guys may have some advice on how to “fight city hall”????

Turn the garage into a quail house with cages to house all your birds...? That's technically indoors. Out of sight, out of mind for the A-hole neighbors that are calling on you.

 

[BantyChooks]

sorry for going “dark” for so long today....I’ve been absolutely “sick” since lunchtime!! And since 3:30, i’ve just been “madder than hell!!”
I thoroughly researched everything prior to getting my first bird due to being “annexed into city limits” a few years ago. While the city had been trying to ban roosters, they kept getting shot down! Today we got our lovely visit from “code enforcement” while my DS was home for lunch. DH called to inquire about the visit and we finally got a live person on the phone around 3:30.
supposedly they just passed a new ordinance defining any fowl or animal that is caged or cooped outdoors as “livestock” and a resident may only have total of 8 period and they have to be housed and kept a minimum of 35 ft from any property line and cannot make noise. or they have to be inside your actual house. nothing is published yet, there was no “advance notice” of any new ordinance being discussed, and they have not yet notified us in writing of the details of “said ordinance”. this is based so far on phone interpretation but said it does include chickens, coturnix quail, gamebirds, rabbits etc. so basically I have until whatever deadline they give me to re-home or butcher everything but my dogs and the butttons and finches that are in my house. (their deadlines are usually 2-4 weeks max)......and i’m sure like all the bs ordinances here, it’s only selectively enforced based on complaints and unfortunately I’ve been a magnet for such for the entire 15+ years we’ve lived here. hopefully you guys may have some advice on how to “fight city hall”????

A. Build small tank.
B. Run over "city hall", repeatedly.
C. Deny everything.
D. Repeat steps A, B, and C, whenever you get a complaint.

 

[CindyinSD]

Would LED rope lights work for the quail? Bulbs would be cumbersome to add to each cage, I could string rope lights through easily.

I’m not sure whether quail are different from chickens, but I’ve read that chickens will lay with just a small string of Christmas tree lights. According to what I’ve read, it’s best to extend the day on both ends but who knows? It makes sense but I don’t know whether there’s been a study—maybe there has. I use an LED bulb in my hen house. I’m not thinking you need a light in each cage so long as the ambient light of the lit shed makes its way into each of them.

In the chicken factories they keep increasing the light by a small amount every day until they reach the limit. By that time the poor girls are all worn out so they cull them. It’s kind of sad... no sunlight, no fresh air, no room even to turn around. But it’s interesting to know that it’s not *just* light that encourages continued laying; it’s also the increasing of the light hours. So... if you’re up for adjusting your timer by a few minutes per day, you might find doing that also helps.

 

[mixedUPturk]

sorry for going “dark” for so long today....I’ve been absolutely “sick” since lunchtime!! And since 3:30, i’ve just been “madder than hell!!”
I thoroughly researched everything prior to getting my first bird due to being “annexed into city limits” a few years ago. While the city had been trying to ban roosters, they kept getting shot down! Today we got our lovely visit from “code enforcement” while my DS was home for lunch. DH called to inquire about the visit and we finally got a live person on the phone around 3:30.
supposedly they just passed a new ordinance defining any fowl or animal that is caged or cooped outdoors as “livestock” and a resident may only have total of 8 period and they have to be housed and kept a minimum of 35 ft from any property line and cannot make noise. or they have to be inside your actual house. nothing is published yet, there was no “advance notice” of any new ordinance being discussed, and they have not yet notified us in writing of the details of “said ordinance”. this is based so far on phone interpretation but said it does include chickens, coturnix quail, gamebirds, rabbits etc. so basically I have until whatever deadline they give me to re-home or butcher everything but my dogs and the butttons and finches that are in my house. (their deadlines are usually 2-4 weeks max)......and i’m sure like all the bs ordinances here, it’s only selectively enforced based on complaints and unfortunately I’ve been a magnet for such for the entire 15+ years we’ve lived here. hopefully you guys may have some advice on how to “fight city hall”????

there are no words. I am so sorry your going thru this dear. I hope its just some bs that flies over

 

[CindyinSD]

sorry for going “dark” for so long today....I’ve been absolutely “sick” since lunchtime!! And since 3:30, i’ve just been “madder than hell!!”
I thoroughly researched everything prior to getting my first bird due to being “annexed into city limits” a few years ago. While the city had been trying to ban roosters, they kept getting shot down! Today we got our lovely visit from “code enforcement” while my DS was home for lunch. DH called to inquire about the visit and we finally got a live person on the phone around 3:30.
supposedly they just passed a new ordinance defining any fowl or animal that is caged or cooped outdoors as “livestock” and a resident may only have total of 8 period and they have to be housed and kept a minimum of 35 ft from any property line and cannot make noise. or they have to be inside your actual house. nothing is published yet, there was no “advance notice” of any new ordinance being discussed, and they have not yet notified us in writing of the details of “said ordinance”. this is based so far on phone interpretation but said it does include chickens, coturnix quail, gamebirds, rabbits etc. so basically I have until whatever deadline they give me to re-home or butcher everything but my dogs and the butttons and finches that are in my house. (their deadlines are usually 2-4 weeks max)......and i’m sure like all the bs ordinances here, it’s only selectively enforced based on complaints and unfortunately I’ve been a magnet for such for the entire 15+ years we’ve lived here. hopefully you guys may have some advice on how to “fight city hall”????

 

[muddy75]

Turn the garage into a quail house with cages to house all your birds...? That's technically indoors. Out of sight, out of mind for the A-hole neighbors that are calling on you.

unfortunately, I don’t have an “attached garage” and my sheds are not 35’ from property lines.
DH and I have discerned that this is a direct jab to stop “urban homesteading” and production of food (eggs or meat). i’m tempted to fill my aviary with “exotics” and see how their eggs and meat taste!!! in all seriousness we are looking at fighting it as much as possible and “hiding birds/animals” for re-release but will have to definitely stick to “if it crows, it goes” philosophy.

 

[Bird nut 2000]

Well so far my 2nd shipment of eggs from mixedUPturk are doing good. Have 16 heartbeats 1 maybe heartbeat 7 clears (lavmans) 4 bubbled clears (celadons). I have 5 eggs with bubbles floating all around the eggs butt the 5th has a heartbeat and its bubble is 10x smaller then the Celadon eggs bubbles.

I have 3 Celadon eggs that are have heartbeats. 2 ? Eggs, 3 German pastels, 6 pansy, and 3 lavender man eggs that all have heartbeats. Although technically i have 6 lavender mans sence the Celadon layer is with that roo. Although i don't think they'll be pure.

 

[CindyinSD]

i’m tempted to fill my aviary with “exotics” and see how their eggs and meat taste!!!

Peacocks are exotic and I hear they taste like chicken.