➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[ShrekDawg]

And you guys don't use your blinkas

I do!


Though not always


But exactly!! That’s a big part of it!! No one uses their signals, everyone cuts everyone off, rolls through stop signs, etc. Massholes!!!

 

[Pennys Mama]

Here, thru my window, is the one I made.
My ghetto picture frame doors are pretty anymore because I used to have this cage out in the weather/rain.

It's under a covered patio now.View attachment 1934933

Very nice! I think I have one of those picture frames! Lol. I had to put a bunch of my chicks in the pens I had prepared. I had a dog/chick problem that I'm working on.

 

[Kiki]

Very nice! I think I have one of those picture frames! Lol. I had to put a bunch of my chicks in the pens I had prepared. I had a dog/chick problem that I'm working on. View attachment 1934940 View attachment 1934941 View attachment 1934942

My dogs will eat my birds in a heartbeat.
I have to make sure my cages are dog proof.

They have worked so far.

 

[Pennys Mama]

Excellent idea!! Maybe I should give my chickens some peat moss...

Been thinking of giving them a dust bathing section. They dust bathe in the run but I’d like to make them a designated area and make it a bit cleaner ha thinking maybe a sand, peat moss, wood ash mix.

I've been using ash & diatomaceous earth for the chickens, I have sand for the quail, is it okay to use DE for the quail too, anyone know? I'm gonna get some peat as well, very absorbent I'd think too.

 

[Pennys Mama]

My dogs will eat my birds in a heartbeat.
I have to make sure my cages are dog proof.

They have worked so far.

My little chickens that have been orphaned by their moms tend to get out over the mesh wire & through the welded wire. They think all dogs are created equal & they definitely are not. I'm gonna hafta make a small coop with all mesh wire just for my juveniles.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I've been using ash & diatomaceous earth for the chickens, I have sand for the quail, is it okay to use DE for the quail too, anyone know? I'm gonna get some peat as well, very absorbent I'd think too.

I was gonna use DE too and used to use tons of it in the coop and run but I don’t wanna kill the bugs in the run so idk. When I was using it it was pretty sterile in there.

And I think it should be fine but idk.

It is pretty dusty though and I read can be bad for their lungs? Which is why I stopped using it but I still sometimes put a little bit in the nest boxes. And I think a little bit would probably be fine but idk.

We should have plenty of wood ash soon with all the fires we will be having.

 

[Kiki]

I've been using ash & diatomaceous earth for the chickens, I have sand for the quail, is it okay to use DE for the quail too, anyone know? I'm gonna get some peat as well, very absorbent I'd think too.

No.
Throw the DE away stat. It's trash.

 

[muddy75]

View attachment 1934706 So now that it is older what would you say this little guy is

definitely a falb fee

 

[Pennys Mama]

I was gonna use DE too and used to use tons of it in the coop and run but I don’t wanna kill the bugs in the run so idk. When I was using it it was pretty sterile in there.

And I think it should be fine but idk.

It is pretty dusty though and I read can be bad for their lungs? Which is why I stopped using it but I still sometimes put a little bit in the nest boxes. And I think a little bit would probably be fine but idk.

We should have plenty of wood ash soon with all the fires we will be having.

I used my DE to cover up wounds on a white chicken that got snatched by the dogs & rescued by me. I applied Desitin & then dusted her with DE, not a single chicken or chick picked on/at her.

 

[Pennys Mama]

No.
Throw the DE away stat. It's trash.

Understood. It will be used only for emergency camouflage.