ChrisandraO
In the Brooder
A little about my self, Im 23 years old and live on the out skirts of Pensacola Fl with my husband and roommate. I decided to get some back yard birds because I love animals and hate how most store bought meat is full of antibiotics and the birds are given a horrible life before slaughter(I am one of those people haha).
After doing some research I found out my community I live in doesn't allow chickens(which is what I originally wanted) So I started to look into other domestic birds that are good for meat, eggs, and are mostly quite and stumbled across Button Quail and I have fallen head over heels for the little peep peeps.
We went to the farmers market and picked up 4 chicks. two appear to be A&Ms( they are white with yellow heads currently) and two look to be goldens to me. They were all mixed together and nothing was labeled so I don't know for sure if they are jumbos or regulars, but they were marked at being 3-4 weeks old.
We currently have them indoors (until they finish growing) in a 1 foot by 3 foot cage, and they are doing well on a mix of turkey crumble and wild game feed as well as meal worms
I currently am looking for local/ simi-local hatching eggs so I can try my hand at incubating
My end goal is to have three cages, 1 with 5 hens and one roo, 1 with about 6 hens (just for eggs), 1 for growing up the extra males and females for selling or butchering depending on our needs I also plan on having at least one incubator and brooder box going (hopefully at all times so we will always have fresh meat)
Here is a picture of our first birds when we picked them up
Here is a picture of them a week later!
After doing some research I found out my community I live in doesn't allow chickens(which is what I originally wanted) So I started to look into other domestic birds that are good for meat, eggs, and are mostly quite and stumbled across Button Quail and I have fallen head over heels for the little peep peeps.
We went to the farmers market and picked up 4 chicks. two appear to be A&Ms( they are white with yellow heads currently) and two look to be goldens to me. They were all mixed together and nothing was labeled so I don't know for sure if they are jumbos or regulars, but they were marked at being 3-4 weeks old.
We currently have them indoors (until they finish growing) in a 1 foot by 3 foot cage, and they are doing well on a mix of turkey crumble and wild game feed as well as meal worms
I currently am looking for local/ simi-local hatching eggs so I can try my hand at incubating
My end goal is to have three cages, 1 with 5 hens and one roo, 1 with about 6 hens (just for eggs), 1 for growing up the extra males and females for selling or butchering depending on our needs
I also plan on having at least one incubator and brooder box going (hopefully at all times so we will always have fresh meat)Here is a picture of our first birds when we picked them up
Here is a picture of them a week later!
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