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Vampiric_Conure
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My parents really liked the painting of the Quail 
Not that they've never actually hated anything, but they were happy to have art from me, LOL! My next project might be a chicken. I've never actually tried a Seabright (Those are a breed, correct?). People love their chickens here on the BYC, so I thought I'd give a hen a try!
The quail should be getting their new enclosure this week. Pretty stoked to build it, now that the Dremel's arrived
. It'll be used to drill holes in the plastic, as doing it by hand is a PITA with the hand drill.
Also waiting on a bunch of other items - 2 horizontal waterers, a roll of plumber's tape, a HUGE package of pine shavings... and a partridge in a pear tree. I hope the new enclosure controls smell better, especially with the pine shavings and horizontal waters. Might have to get a better quail feeder as the one I made for the girls just gets kicked around.
I'm hoping Tsunami, my conure hen, laid another egg. Not that I'll complain if there's only 2 babies. I'll have to pick up some baby formula for the chicks when they arrive. There's a huge bag at Petsmart that I intend on getting. Then I have to disinfect everything for hand feeding! Yeep! Then I plan on pulling the babies at 18 days. It's a lot of work, but so, so worth it Quail are much less work, unless you factor in the incubator.
Not that they've never actually hated anything, but they were happy to have art from me, LOL! My next project might be a chicken. I've never actually tried a Seabright (Those are a breed, correct?). People love their chickens here on the BYC, so I thought I'd give a hen a try! The quail should be getting their new enclosure this week. Pretty stoked to build it, now that the Dremel's arrived
. It'll be used to drill holes in the plastic, as doing it by hand is a PITA with the hand drill. Also waiting on a bunch of other items - 2 horizontal waterers, a roll of plumber's tape, a HUGE package of pine shavings... and a partridge in a pear tree. I hope the new enclosure controls smell better, especially with the pine shavings and horizontal waters. Might have to get a better quail feeder as the one I made for the girls just gets kicked around.
I'm hoping Tsunami, my conure hen, laid another egg. Not that I'll complain if there's only 2 babies. I'll have to pick up some baby formula for the chicks when they arrive. There's a huge bag at Petsmart that I intend on getting. Then I have to disinfect everything for hand feeding! Yeep! Then I plan on pulling the babies at 18 days. It's a lot of work, but so, so worth it
Quail are much less work, unless you factor in the incubator. 
