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

[Morrigan]

I'll have to check out and see what the pellet thing are thank for this idea.

The pellets are primarily manufactured for the purpose of burning in wood stoves, so hopefully you can find them in Houston. They are generically called "wood pellet fuel" My local feed store got me using them for brooding my annual meat chickens. I was shocked at how much better they worked than pine shavings.

Because they are meant to be burned inside where humans breath, they don't have glues or toxins in them. They are basically 100% highly compacted wood, usually pine or oak. When they get wet, they just crumble into a dry looking powder.

 

[Kiki]

Her name was Heddie when she graduated from high school. Poor mom could not read or write and a relative suggested the name....it sounds pretty until you see it in print. In second grade the family moved to a new school. The mom was horrified when the school counselor politely explained about "other children might tease the child about her name". That is when the name Heddie was suggested.

Thru my years of teaching and working in diverse school districts and my husband's career in the police department, we have accumulated an unusual list of names.





I have an order in for Columbian Wyandotte chicks from a hatchery this fall. I asked for straight run...hoping to get some nice darker colored cockerels to possibly use in the breed pen. My hatch rate this year has been 85% pullets. My cocks are getting older quickly.


I could not agree more! Frustrating when a "newby" responds to a question with his/her "new found knowledge" and reprimands a wise answer from a long time poultry breeder.
Someone suggested a while back in one of the breed threads that we should include in our bio/avatars the number of years we have had chickens.
Even my years of experience, I am learning all the time.


And the quail quickly grow into those feet.


Mollie's ducklings should hatch tomorrow.
Four of the broodie hen's should hatch in the next week and two others in two weeks.


Me too.

I forgot to ask Nutty what the tamale name was.
I don't get it.
Is Heddie the one that rhymes with tamale?

Heddie sounds nice to me.


How do you keep track of all your hatching stuffs?
Pen and paper?

 

[Kiki]

The pellets are primarily manufactured for the purpose of burning in wood stoves, so hopefully you can find them in Houston. They are generically called "wood pellet fuel" My local feed store got me using them for brooding my annual meat chickens. I was shocked at how much better they worked than pine shavings.

Because they are meant to be burned inside where humans breath, they don't have glues or toxins in them. They are basically 100% highly compacted wood, usually pine or oak. When they get wet, they just crumble into a dry looking powder.

I really really do not like pine shavings.

 

[Morrigan]

The pellets are pricier than shavings, but last longer and are "neater" looking for lack of a better term. This isn't the greatest ever shot of them, but here is a picture of a meat bird sleeping on few that spilled through the doorway to the outbuilding where I was brooding them.

 

[Morrigan]

And, while I'm posting bird pictures, here is my sweet broody, Pebbles, contemplating taking her new chicklets outside. After this was taken, she went out, but only one chick followed her, so she had to come back in right away.

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I think she is dying for dust bath.

 

[Pugsabi]

Sure you can wash them.

I'll send you a bag so you can show me how it's done.

Edit: weird quote

 

[jwyles]

Texas A&M is just a jumbo version of the English White coloration. Still Coturnix, and can cross with the other color mutations.


Such little cuties! Solid yellow will turn out white feathers, might get spots on head. Yellow fluff with black stripes will be a golden/Italian. The ones with color on the back and yellow fluff underneath will be tuxedos, the yellow will be white feathers, brown fluff usually indicates brown feathers, so you probably have a Tibetan tuxedo. The tuxedo with the grayish fluff might turn out to be a silver tuxedo.​

@Sara L my point was less about Texas A & M being a " breed" (why I had it in quotation marks bc I wasn't sure what to call it but I guess variety is more correct) of its own and more about the fact that you're not going to order coturnix quail and get a Texas a & m. And just bc it's the color of an a & m that doesn't mean it's an a & m. (All a&m are coturnix but not all coturnix,of that certain color-white with spots whatever it's called-more specifically) are not a & m.) A&M are selectively bred to be A&M, based on more specifics than just color, right? Therefore different than traditional coturnix. Does this make more sense? Totally realize the my can cross breed but they are different thanks to selective breeding; therefore A&M don't just randomly hatch in a traditional coturnix clutch.

As a matter of fact Texasamquail.com specifically says they are a cross between Japanese coturnix and English white coturnix to give them all white meat.

 

[Morrigan]

I never knew there were so many quail breeds. I always thought of quail, as California quail, as that's what we have running all over place here. It's the state bird, actually. They've got a little curly-Q feather on their heads.

 

[Pugsabi]

I forgot to ask Nutty what the tamale name was.
I don't get it.
Is Heddie the one that rhymes with tamale?

Heddie sounds nice to me.


How do you keep track of all your hatching stuffs?
Pen and paper?

I'm pretty sure it was Sh*thead who went by Heddie.

The other person's name was the word Female but it was pronounced like tamale(fa-ma-lee, maybe?)

 

[Pugsabi]

I never knew there were so many quail breeds. I always thought of quail, as California quail, as that's what we have running all over place here. It's the state bird, actually. They've got a little curly-Q feather on their heads.

I didn't know there were so many types of chicken! I'm pretty sure if you asked me a while back I would have told you that all chickens looked like white leghorns or Road Island Red.