➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

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RUNuts said:
Well, her abdomen is swollen and she is sleeping in the nest box for the 3rd night. Fiddlesticks. 18 months old. These Leghorns are a short lived breed. I was hoping for 2 summers.

Kiki - are you putting lights on the quail to keep them laying all winter? December 22nd is the shortest day of the year. I'm thinking quail eggs in mid January for a spring batch and set eggs all summer. But if you don't add light, I'll have to wait.

I figure I only need 12 pens for my plans. :lau
Time for a new plan, Stan.
You don't need to be coy, Roy.
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I forgot to ask...How many eggs are you going to want to start with.
I see no reason why January wouldn't work out.
 
KikisGirls said:
I forgot to ask...How many eggs are you going to want to start with.
I see no reason why January wouldn't work out.
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Not more than 100. :lau

How many are you setting this week? 2x7 + 4 in frig = 18?
That sounds good - whatever you get in a week. If all 6 are laying, 6x7 = 42.

The next 3 months will fly by and I've a quail coop to construct. Wonder if I can go totally recycled + wire, screws, hinges. Hmm. Kinda recycled?

I need to cruise over to the used crate dump and see what looks useable. I have an 1.5' square by 6 feet crate looking good right this minute. Smallish, brooder or grow out pen?
 
RUNuts said:
Not more than 100. :lau

How many are you setting this week? 2x7 + 4 in frig = 18?
That sounds good - whatever you get in a week. If all 6 are laying, 6x7 = 42.

The next 3 months will fly by and I've a quail coop to construct. Wonder if I can go totally recycled + wire, screws, hinges. Hmm. Kinda recycled?

I need to cruise over to the used crate dump and see what looks useable. I have an 1.5' square by 6 feet crate looking good right this minute. Smallish, brooder or grow out pen?
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I would plan it around the wide of the hardware cloth.
I am really liking these rolls of 2 foot wide hardware cloth I bought the other day.
My new cage is only two feet wide and this roll is sooooo easy to work with.


I really hope that most of these quails are female.
They just have to start laying more eggs soon.

I really want to set at least 20 or 30.
 
Also now I'm somewhat rethinking goats. I really really REALLY want them but I also want to move to Pittsburgh eventually and/or enroll in dog training school so idk. Granted, goats aren't that expensive to maintain, just hay and minerals, and we have lots of free brush, but the initial cost is slightly high since I wanna save, like the shelter, fencing, goats themselves, etc. And plus babies need grain for a while. So idk. I wanna save at least 6 month's rent and most places are like $1000 or $1200, some are $800 or if I moved to like Erie instead of Pittsburgh some are like $400 but I don't really wanna love there. But anyway, I'm just assuming it's $1000. I don't really have a specific goal but I wanna save between $5000 and $10,000. The dog training thing is $5000. So I'm thinking I should try to save up for that first because I really do wanna become a trainer and also I can train and walk dogs in Pittsburgh in case I can't find a real job right away. And in the meantime I am going to read all the training books I have and finally do the online training classes/video lectures I bought forever ago (like January/February) on Udemy. I have a lot of them cause they went on sale. Lots of good info in them and top trainers. I wanna prove I can make myself read and watch/complete stuff first because I am not at all a big reader and haven't finished a book in a while and am also a big procrastinator with assignments and school and stuff so before I shell out the money for the dog school, I want to prove to myself I can be disciplined enough to go through the program cause otherwise it's a waste of money. And besides, I also just really do want to read and watch this material cause it's all useful and the more info I have to work from, the better. So yeah. Goats may have to go on hold. But I'm also like ready to just go buy fencing and make a pen and buy a couple goat kids in the spring so idk. But it also wouldn't be fair to them if I did buy them only to move in a year because I know my parents likely won't want to care for them or wouldn't do it right and they would probably need to be sold. Which of course is not fair to get a baby goat and then sell it in 6 months or a year. I may need to wait until I have a farm lol the other option is to just not move and stay here and get said goats but I do not want to stay here forever (can barely even tolerate it now) and I think the city would be fun. But I'm conflicted whether to even move or if I do whether to just buy a farm amd not move to a city because I really like the whole homesteading, farming thing and raising all my animals and the open space/air but I also love music, concerts, etc. And want to have fun while I'm young and Pittsburgh has a pretty good music scene and I have friends there and family nearby so it seems like a good fit. But also as of now, I think the money would be best spent on dog training school and not goats. I am sure my parents would pay for some of it or all of it if I asked but I don't want them to. I'd rather just raise it myself. :barnie sometimes I hate being a responsible adult.
 

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