A century of Turkey talk 2000-2100.

[DwayneNLiz]

I know there’s a section/thread on here but I’m curious about raising the coturnix quail. Might look into building a hutch style cage against the pump house to keep like 2 small groupings... they’re cute and tasty and lay eggs quick and eat the same higher protein feed as the turkeys/guineas.

i currently have them in my little chicken coop, but for summer they were in a chinchilla cage, i wanted to put that cage in my big walk-in coop but it got too cold to quick to get that accomplished

One word of above on the quail...NEVER, try to keep them with any kind of chickens! Even the tiniest of bantam seramas! I made a fatal mistake with mine the other day :/ I had a boy and 2 girls, perfect trio from my 3 eggs that hatched. They were getting very big in the brooder so I thought that I would move them out to the temporary, winter home with the seramas since they were about the same size. I checked then every half hour, ask day long to make sure all was good and everything seemed fine. Over night, my seramas decided to attack my quail. The one girl was dead already when I found them in the morning. The other girl and the boot were both scalped badly and the boy couldn't open his eyes. I lost that other girl that evening. The little boy is still with us and is recovering. He still can't open his eyes but he's energetic and happy. He's back in the brooder with the new years hatch a long babies. He starts calling when he hears my voice and is ready to eat (I'm hand feeding him now). He's such a sweet thing. I feel absolutely terrible about it.

that stinks i am sorry! i used my quail coop as a sick bay for a couple of my pullets and they were fine but i think they didnt peck them because there were more quail than chickens

Sorry about your quail. Birds are definitely brutal at times. I’d have them separate from all other poultry in cages since I hear their droppings are quite stinky. Just need to figure out a good cage design (been looking around on here/Internet). Will be a little while before can get them since we have other animals to get first.

i like the rabbit hutch way of keeping them but my hubby wouldnt let me get the free hutch

 

[memphis]

Funny turkeys. Glanced out the window to see both turkey hens racing back & forth along the fenceline. They were really running and flapping a bit. Then I noticed the teenage Sussex running with them, only on my side of the fence. By the time I got my shoes & jacket on, the Sussex had hopped back into their yard. All was calm. No explanations from the fowl.

 

[memphis]

And the weatherman lied again. Kept waiting for our low 40's....never got past 34. Dang it.

 

[aliciaplus3]

Darling

egg head

ok is there any hope to determine gender at 9 weeks? Lol I know time will tell but I guess I am impatient

 

[R2elk]

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I don't normally have any trouble sexing my poults at 2 months but I do it by observation of behavior as well as physical traits.

At this time both of your poults appear to be hens.

 

[rjohns39]

And the weatherman lied again. Kept waiting for our low 40's....never got past 34. Dang it.

We're at 19 and falling. Last night it got away from me. My turkeys are the first to go out to pasture no matter how cold it is. chickens look at them like they are nuts and they're just having fun.

 

[R2elk]

And the weatherman lied again. Kept waiting for our low 40's....never got past 34. Dang it.

It got up to 45°F today and is still 40°F right now. The low for the day was 17°F at 3:14 AM.

 

[holm25]

I don't normally have any trouble sexing my poults at 2 months but I do it by observation of behavior as well as physical traits.

At this time both of your poults appear to be hens.

X2. Darling has some big legs though...

 

[aliciaplus3]

I don't normally have any trouble sexing my poults at 2 months but I do it by observation of behavior as well as physical traits.

At this time both of your poults appear to be hens.

Thank you I was hoping but you know how that goes...

 

[memphis]

Something is so wrong about it being warmer in Wyoming than here.