Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

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I have 40 some quail right now. I started with 10, and I was so impressed on how little they ate, but now... They eat the most!! Been selling them off in trios to get down to just the birds I want to keep to breed. I can NOT imagine feeding 15 turkeys. The THREE I had ate more then all my chickens combined.
 
Question- when someone advertises their birds as being from a specific line ie..Greenfire farm are the chicken/eggs that they are selling directly out of a Greefire bird or do they have Greenfire somewhere in the lineage of the birds/eggs?

It could be either way. With Marans people will tell you they are such and such's lines BUT that may have been 10 Generations back and 5 different breeders in between.... they are not really that breeders lines anymore. You would need to ask the seller those questions.
 
Yay! Thank you for all that information! That's exactly what I wanted to know. I think I am going to get work my bantams towards silver laced blues and do barred LF Cochins. What would a barred roo over black hen breed? its funny because with my birchen all the roos where hatching birchen i assume its the same sex link reasoning? though, they are sex link at hatch, since the birchen takes time to feather out. Could I work towards blue barred? Would that kind of work the same way as silver laced, with working for several generations to get the color pattern and coloring!
 
Ummm those links are in an absolute foreign language to me
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I know, right?

I don't understand them enough to understand what I have. so how can I plug those loci in to find out what I'd get!!!!
 
I prefer 22% for everybodysome old breeders have said Dual Purpose/Heritage breeds do better with higher protein. I do supplement with cracked corn. When conditioning I also add oats and Black Oil Sunflower seeds but I like the KISS method (keep it simple stupid). Its easier for me.

I use the 22% layer feed, I like to higher protein. I don't supplement anything except the spent barley in the pullet grower so I can up the protein some and extend the feed. I do add DE to the feed.
 
I chickened out and put a heat lamp in the coop.
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I'm posting here for accountability I guess. If there's a fire it's all my fault and I'm already kicking myself in the butt...but dangit. They are 7 weeks old and it's supposed to get 14 degrees tonight...that's 18 degrees below freezing and I'm just not comfortable with them being in that temperature.
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So much for my "let them be chickens" attitude.

It's just for tonight though...it's supposed to be in the 30s at night after this. I'm not entirely sure why I felt the need to voice my little "chicken sin" but I did. I feel stupid..because I'm always telling people "they're chickens, they'll acclimate themselves, they'll be fine as long as the coop is draft free and well ventilated...blah blah blah blah". But...now that I have my own chicks and now that it's my weather that is so bitter cold...it's a different story and I feel like a big ignoramus for telling people to leave their chicks in below freezing weather in a coop with no heat. Anything below 16 degrees I'm heating their coop and that's that *huffs and puffs*.
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I only use chick starter, pullet grower and layer feed. I don't feed corn, sunflower seed or oats to my chickens. they have everything they need in the feed. Corn is like candy to a chicken and really does not give them much nutrition.
Corn is good for the birds through the winter though because it adds carbs and fat which helps keep them warm
 
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