Dixie Chicks

[hennible]

Washed.... And no fertile commercial eggs to my knowledge.

 

[hennible]

@Alaskan have you ever had issues with your muscovy's feet?
The oldest of my females has had ragged webbing sense I got her, but now it seems to be getting worse. Not sure if it's frost bite, or what.
Ok it's not frost bite. Well it's sure doesn't look like the frost bite pics online...

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

BARKEL'S LEMON RACING HOMER.
Anyone know anything about them?
Who has them?
Costs?
Best Climate?

 

[CanuckBock]

Speaking of fridge eggs, are Canuckian commercial eggs washed or unwashed?

Depends on the grade...NR's are not.

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Unless organic...then they do this...

http://www.eggfarmers.ca/faq/:
Question – Are organic eggs washed in a different solution than other eggs?

Answer - All eggs are gently washed in a sanitizing solution and inspected at a grading station registered with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Organic eggs are washed with an approved organic soap. This is part of the certification process.

Nothing saying commercial farm eggs are not fertilized...in fact the organic free rangers could well be. Since the factory farms use to have only caged egg layers, there would not have been fertilized eggs.

http://www.eggs.ca/yourquestions/:

I hear places like Tims, Burger King...are going to offer up ONLY cage free eggs by 2025.

http://www.thestar.com/business/201...rger-king-promise-cage-free-eggs-by-2025.html:

I know a poultry person that worked at a grocery store here in AB and the store mistakenly ordered up something like a pallet of quail eggs instead of chooker eggs...the person took them home and hatched some out. Not a great hatch rate, but those commercial eggs were fertile.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[Alaskan]

@Alaskan have you ever had issues with your muscovy's feet?
The oldest of my females has had ragged webbing sense I got her, but now it seems to be getting worse. Not sure if it's frost bite, or what.
Ok it's not frost bite. Well it's sure doesn't look like the frost bite pics online...

I at times get "spots" on the bottom of their feet... Not bumble foot... But, well, dunno really.

However, the front leading edge of the webbing on mine has always been fine.

I have had a few toenails get ripped off.

 

[hennible]

Thanks Alaskan. Everyone else's feet are fine. Weird.

 

[hennible]

Now I want to find NR graded eggs to try hatching... Lol
Cool info Tara

 

[vehve]

Quail eggs tend to be fertilized here too. I admit to not knowing a heck of a lot about quail keeping, but I would assume they are mostly produced on a lot smaller scale, so they tend to be kept in mixed batches.

Does cage free in Canada mean that they can still be kept in "activity cages"?

 

[Alaskan]

Quail are worse than chickens... When it comes to the roosters fighting... But I have heard that in a big enough cage it will work.




Sigh...... The boys brought a Cock in tonight, our Spitz. He managed to peel one layer of skin off of hus wattle, right in the middle, about the size if a quarter... But in the shape of a triangle.

I couldn't decide what I should do..... I finally rinsed it off super well, then coated it with anti-biotics and patted it back into place.


Enough chicken drama already!!!!

 

[perchie.girl]

flight pen for quail Yeah I was looking into this a while back and where I got my idea of how to water my own chickens once i get it built.

http://www.quailranch-ok.com/flight_pen_design.html

you got to build it up so when they shoot up in the air when startled they dont scalp themselves.

but here is the water systm I want to emulate.

http://www.quailranch-ok.com/water_system.html

all water is kept outside of the pens for several hundred birds at one time. They have free access to water through the wire. the water circulates to keep it fresh.

deb