Quote: Speckled Sussex
Among my top 3 breeds for foraging. I bought a few more pullets at the feed store and, well, the opportunity arose to get a rooster from someone eliminating his flock.Marans, BO and SS. EE pretty good too. The others tend to hang near the coop
oh ok. 8) my choice for foraging is dorking. the cochins too but they tend to hang closer to home. the dorkings are all the way at the bottom of the horse pen, way up in the woods above the house, etc. the cochins hang out between the coops and house mostly.Speckled Sussex
Among my top 3 breeds for foraging. I bought a few more pullets at the feed store and, well, the opportunity arose to get a rooster from someone eliminating his flock.Marans, BO and SS. EE pretty good too. The others tend to hang near the coop
aka coturnix quail. brown variety.
all of mine hatch on day 18 - 99% of the time. like popcorn. once they start, most of them go quick. some might straggle a day or so but experience is they are usually weak...My incubator windows are going to end up coverd and recoverd with nose prints I cant see anything on these quail eggs but they have to be close the waitint is killing me and I wish I knew when they were actually sapose to hatch but I have heard 3 diffrent lengths for incubation
that was one of the reasons they made such great farmyard chickens over the last 2 centuries. everyone had them until the commercial meat bird came along and getting chicken meat was easier, if not cheaper...
