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Originally Posted by familytraditionI am sorry for my inexperience with your forum. I pulled this up in a search and have been reading for hours. You have a wonderful forum, full of information!
Does anyone in Northern IN know where I can buy/trade quail? I breed Coturnix, and am looking to add several new bloodlines to my flock. I currently have around 40 adults, 5 1-day olds, and a few dozen in the incubator. I have Tibetans, Rosettas, Italians, and Jumbos. I am looking for either fertile eggs or young birds. I am willing to buy or trade.
I am also looking to increase my chicken flock (have around 70). Does anyone know who sells Frizzles in Indiana? I specialize in Araucana and Barred Rock, and could trade fertile eggs or pay for eggs. We are also looking to get into some meat birds this year. Does anyone know where to buy broilers inexpensively?
Thank you so much for your help!!!
Been lurking this site for over a year. I started with chickens last year, raising RIRs for eggs. Now I have ISA Browns, RIRs, Buff Orpingtons, and Cornish X. Will be adding in some decoration birds for my wife with an assortment of Crescent tops and banties. Looking to add some Easter Eggers, Welsummers, and/or Marans. Will also be adding a couple turkeys come May. Overall, I'm looking at having ~100+ birds. Half will be egg layers. The other half decor and meat.
From Ft. Wayne.
lollipop guild ~ Welcome to the Indiana Thread! Please see info listed above.
Mother2Hens - I'm thinking of writing Einstein's story. It just keeps getting better! I wrote in college, so it's time to break out my creativeness soon! You asked where the rooster is from - he is the next door neighbor's. They used to have several chickens but when we lost several to coons last year, I think they lost all theirs but him. I believe he is a Black Copper Marans. We've pretty much adopted him.
amwchicken ~ You should write about Einstein's intriguing story!![]()
I have a little pygmy buck, maybe 30 pounds at most! He is one of the 2 that were give ups. and I have no info on him at all.Wow - this thread is REALLY active! What a great online community to be a part of - I have had a great deal of fun scrolling through the posts from the last week or so, trying to catch up - just loving all of the spring-is-here-and-so-are-chicks photos being posted and getting a kick out of how many posts I've seen along the lines of, "I just dropped by [insert name of store] and got a bunch of chicks, but didn't mean to!" Been there, done that - LOL!!!
My hubby and I spent yesterday cleaning out the chicken shed, rearranging and beginning the work to do some renovations. We're expanding the chicken area this year. One of the things we're doing is converting a large display case into a double-decker brooder. I think that chicken people go to yard sales with re-purposing glasses on.I enjoy the photos being posted of coops and coop renovations.
We're also picking up two pygmy goats this week - they are does that are almost two years old and ready to breed, so I'll need to track down a suitable buck. I noticed several other folks in this thread who have goats. How do they get along with your chickens?
I'm trying to get in weekly photos of my Jaerhons' development. Here they are at three weeks:
Pullet
Pullet feathering out
Cockerel
Cockerel feathering out
I'll be breaking out my incubators in about a week. I'm looking forward to starting with a bunch of quail eggs, plus I'll probably put a few Serama eggs in there, too.
Spring is finally here, y'all! YAY!
Oh no, don't feel that way at all. Don't think there is a way, but if anyone knows, please holler!Phooey - I meant for this post to be a quote/reply ... is there a way to delete a post on BYC? (feeling like an idiot, here).
So i have some great news fellow Hoosier BYCers!! I have finally joined the ranks of owning an incubator!! But i also need to give a BIG THANKS to JCHNY!!! Thanks for responding to my PMs and helping me out!!
I would also like to quote Racinchickens as well, as i too "suddenly have quail!" lol but mine are eggs and they will be my first incubator project!!! Thanks JCHNY for the quail eggs!!!
Got the 'bator set up and it's going,so just gonna wait until tomorrow evening for the full 24 hrs then put them in there. I'm excited and nervous at the same time!!! wwooohoooo!!!
goatluver ~ Congrats about your chicks! Since so many people are using brooders and heat lamps, I tweaked some info that I had put together and posted before on this thread.My mom finally reserved some chicks for me at akers hatchery. So excited! They say they will be able to have them ready by the beginning of April. I am getting 1 barred Plymouth rock, 1 frizzle buff orpington (if it turns out as a hen I want to breed it with my friend's bantam buff orpington rooster, If it turns out as rooster I can breed it with my buff orp hen), 1 lavender orpington, 1 welsummer, and 1 blue laced red Wyandotte. I am going to borrow a spare dog crate from my grandma. How do you guys with crates hang the light?
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I looked into it, they are just sooo teeny tiny! I have to stop adding until I get my builds done thoAnyone raise button quail? Looking to get back into them.![]()
Pasture fencing and breeding pens are high priority right now.
I don't remember who originally posted this picture but... guess what...that's right I have one! It was GIVEN to me...yay!!!!The rich peeps who purchased it from our local feed stores catalog (sight unseen) were dissatisfied with it after it arrived. I happened t b there when they went in to pick it up on Saturday. The feed store employees had assembled it for them and I was saying how it would b nice for a grow out pen for my chicks.![]()
When I was told it was sold, I told them it didn't matter because I wouldn't b able to afford something like that anyway. The owners decided to go back t the catalogs, found a much larger one t purchase and told the stores owner to give it to that nice lady who was admiring it...lol that would be ME! Yippee!!! Yappee!!! Yahooo ooo eee! THANK YOU RICH PEOPLE (who have enough money to share with others!!!) my bitties will b enjoying it as soon as I can find a pickup truck to get it home.oh my, congrats!!!![]()
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Can't wait for the weather tomorrow, massive yard work planned!
Lovely babies!
Quote: Awesome on the egg! Sounds like you have a very good plan dealing with Mareks.
thanks for your kind words too!
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Hehehe, I have one too, I just track eggs laid by species, and total by month.Well, I have already confessed to being a spreadsheet junkie. I've just made an EggSpreadsheet 1.0. It has a list of each of my chickens, the dates, the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly totals as well as notes on each of them. It can easily be updated for anyone's chickens if you want a copy. I'm sure eventually I will make it prettier too.