California - Northern

[Minflick]

That I can't answer, I'm just too new at chicken keeping to have that answer. I'd imagine, though, that it's the same as it is with cats and dogs - some will self regulate nicely, and others are pigs.

 

[SpringPeeper]

My chicks from @Papa Brooder have shipped!!! I will be obsessively checking the tracking number all night ...

Oh, cool. What are you getting? I have some beautiful little mixed bantams from him that I'm hoping to use as quail-egg-brooders next year. I want to add some of his Salmon Faverolles to my current Faverolles eventually, too. And maybe some Rhodebars... yeah. Chickens are addictive.

 

[chrissyr]

Well that sounds like a deal too good to pass up!  

(Edited to make sense...:/ )

Wow!   That is very impressive!   I am lucky to get 3 done in a couple of hours...but I am very OCD about the pin feathers.   The last couple I did were both dark feathered so they took me even longer.

it was faster because I skinned them. But I was worn out. I'm finding much easier to take them to the processor next time

 

[chrissyr]

My chicks from @Papa Brooder
have shipped!!! I will be obsessively checking the tracking number all night ...

awesome! Jeff has some nice birds

Fun....new babies  e   i have eggs in an incubator due to hatch Halloween night....

congrats on your Halloween babies!!

 

[chrissyr]

Oh, cool. What are you getting? I have some beautiful little mixed bantams from him that I'm hoping to use as quail-egg-brooders next year. I want to add some of his Salmon Faverolles to my current Faverolles eventually, too. And maybe some Rhodebars... yeah. Chickens are addictive.

ok this is what I was wondering. Can a bantam broody successfully raise quail?
How big of a banty would work, if so?

 

[ronott1]

ok this is what I was wondering. Can a bantam broody successfully raise quail?
How big of a banty would work, if so?

I am fairly sure that quail can't get into chicken poop.

 

[SpringPeeper]

ok this is what I was wondering. Can a bantam broody successfully raise quail?
How big of a banty would work, if so?

I've only heard of them being used to brood, not raise. I know they can be susceptible to things chickens carry without showing any symptoms.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Good luck to everyone hatching!

 

[margaret8]

I 2

 

[casportpony]

Quote: I think quail are like turkey poults and peachicks, very susceptible to blackhead (histomoniaisis). When I let chickens raise poults and peas I treat them for blackhead before hatching.

-Kathy