Idaho?

[Chickenhill]

Thanks for the warm welcome

I got into chickens about a year and a half ago. Now I'm an addict!! I have even started getting into quail. Have one silkie egg and 9 button quail eggs in the bator now. My poor husband has even been roped into coop construction and design.

It's an easy habit to form for sure. You folks make nice coops
http://www.mlongconstruction.com/Coops.html

 

[cmknight]

Thanks for the warm welcome

I got into chickens about a year and a half ago. Now I'm an addict!! I have even started getting into quail. Have one silkie egg and 9 button quail eggs in the bator now. My poor husband has even been roped into coop construction and design.

I've been into chickens for about the same amount of time. I built my coop out of pallets from work. Gotta love free material. I just started raising quail. Had 13 in the bator. @ hatched on Sunday night and one last night. So far so good.

 

[idahochicka]

Thanks! My hubby is really good at what he does and takes pride in it. He won't build or sell something if he doesn't like it. Funny how I got him started. I had been asking him to build a coop for about a year. He kept poo pooing me off. I took some of the scrap lumber he had accumulated on the side of the house, got out the power tools and started construction on my own coop. I was very pregnant at the time and I think the neighbors thought I was nuts! My husband calls it 'the leaning box' he had to out build me and make the small coop listed on the web site. We listed it on Craigslist and have sold over 30 chicken and duck coops this year! Our coop is still 'the leaning box. Ha! I am going to have him build a quail coop/house this weekend.

Good luck with your quail babies!! This is the 1st time I have attempted incubating. Fingers crossed it works out. I'm using the hova bator with an egg turner.

 

[JenS9]

Anyone else starting to winterize their birds? I'm going to go out later to get plastic and a staple gun.

 

[Desert Springs]

Welcome!

Heres a funny one

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=EADC17C55558EC771C29B1DCA1C1EC92

Yep, this one is great!!!!! Saw it a couple months ago.

Anyone else starting to winterize their birds? I'm going to go out later to get plastic and a staple gun.

I started yesterday. Started closing up the extra ventilation holes (although not all!!) and combining some of my flocks, since my incubator officially is off for October, November and December, so deep cleaning and disinfecting can begin. Started doing inventory on my heater bases and extension cords. Winter, hauling water and clearing snow .... ugh!!

 

[IcyOldHen]

If you get any larger females from your jumbo brown coturnix eggs for sale let me know. Will be up In Idaho in a couple weeks....I have had some crazy issues with my incubator. I need 4 more

I have already sold all the females I had available from the last hatch. But I'll definitely be hatching more! Grin!

If you get an A&M flock established, I would love to get chicks/eggs from you in the Spring too! I have been looking for those. It is getting a little later in the year now though so I want to wait until Spring and then get some for sure !

My A&M eggs will be here tomorrow! I am so excited to see how they compare! I have really enjoyed tracking the growth on my last 2 hatches. And I'll have something to compare the new lines to!

 

[IcyOldHen]

I just had two chicks hatch last night. 13 eggs made it to lack down. I'm hoping more with hatch in the next couple days. These are the first from the birds that hatched form the eggs I bought from you. So cool!! I have another dozen about ready to go in the bator too.

Exciting! It's so fun hatching the tiny quail! I'm going to try to stop for a few months after setting more eggs tomorrow! Grin!

 

[Mo5C]

Any ideas on how to break my banty hen Bella out of her broodiness? She has stopped laying eggs all together and is now setting on 2 eggs from 1 of my easter eggers that keeps thinking that specific nesting box is the only nesting box to lay eggs in...she has her choice of 4 other nesting boxes.

 

[Daloorashens]

Had to share this!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLwML2PagbY#t=22

Welcome!

Heres a funny one

http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=EADC17C55558EC771C29B1DCA1C1EC92

AHHHHH THE TRUTH REVEALED!!!!!

Welcome to all the newbies!!

It is time to start winterizing... it is COLD tonite, yikes!! Glad all the kiddos are feathered out, I have a couple of broodies I need to break, then again, if I slipped some eggs under them, any pullets from those eggs would be laying by spring... hmmmmm

 

[Squeaky McMurdo]

Well, I lost my little chick. She never ate. Bummer because I really want Welsummers