"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[kuntrygirl]

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Just awesome. You have some VERY lucky animals out there. I better not let my animals see your setup, they might pack up and head your way.

It looks GREAT out there Mike.

 

[Cadjien_De_Louisiane]

Cool Whiskey Bay Congrats

Lamike that is freakn' out of hand, love it though only wish I could have something like that.

 

[La Mike]

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Yea I got a lot of birds

I sell tons of hatching eggs though so it aint too bad.

I got 7 more lady amhearst to hatch out today

 

[NonnasBabies]

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I've seen these mentioned a few times in the past few days!! Never knew what they were!! Had to go Google!! Gorgeous!

 

[NonnasBabies]

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Beautiful Mike!! I really can't understand why I didn't make mine bigger since I
have plenty of room!! Well, yea I can... Hey, I'm just gonna get a few birds for
fresh eggs!! YEAH right!!

That's why I decided to basically start all over. To build it exactly like I want it and MUCH bigger!!

Here's a pic of my pasture

You see the small oak I circled with yellow?? I'm going to move the fence to my back yard right past that tree and put my new coop & run right beofre it. I guess that's giving me about 200 - 300 more feet. Most people wonder why I've fenced my backyard in instead of leaving it open. I like the security that I have when I let my dogs out. Their fearless (except when it comes to thunder storms!) and have gone after coons, coyotes, etc. Their Yorkies for goodness sake!

By moving it I will able to build probably a 40 ft coop area, 10 ft for each section and make the runs 30 or 40 ft long. I want them to have plenty of room!!

 

[La Mike]

Sounds awesome. You will have plenty room then lol
And yea Mine started with ( I cant hunt quail anymore so I will raise a few)

 

[NonnasBabies]

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You know I keep hoping I could get my husband intrested in something like that whether it's quail, turkey's or anything really. We've talked about even raising rabbits for meat. Right now he's in the process of trying to trap hogs on some property in Kentwood. He went out there Wednesday night and put the trap out, checked it Thursday night and didn't have anything and their going back up there tonight to check it again!! We'll see I guess!! I see your quail flight pen. I thought quail had to be raised off the ground!! Can you tell me a little more about raising them??

Thanks!!

 

[La Mike]

We brood them in a large brooder battery and breed them in breeder batteries.

Dont have a pic of the brooder on this puter but it is 6 tray set up.
They dont necessarily have to be raised on wire. Thats for protection against worms and parasites. All my ground level pens have sand at least 1 foot deep which does not allow either to survive so theres no issue there. The hardest part is getting them past the first few weeks

I have rabbits and turkey also for meat mostly but some of my turkey are just for purties

Tell your DH to soak some corn in diesel in a 5 gallon bucket for a day or 2 and bait his traps with that. I would almost bet he has better luck

 

[NonnasBabies]

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Oh that's cool. SO as long and you have sand deep enough you can raise them on the ground??

Thanks for the tip on the corn, will definetely tell him about it when he calls me later!!

Love that pic!! Looks like 2 little love birds in there!!

 

[Whiskey Bay]

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Yea I got a lot of birds

I sell tons of hatching eggs though so it aint too bad.

I got 7 more lady amhearst to hatch out today

I need some lady amherst!!!!!And Some Red and Yellow Goldens... I had one lonely LA hatch,but it was shipped eggs from Ebay and none of my yellow or Red goldens hatched...

...lol.Ship me some eggs!!I need a good source...lol. I need a LA hen too...hehe

Whiskey Bay wrote:
Rain update for today:.... abso freakinlutely NOTHING.Not even a cloud today.Got some actual North winds coming through,but no rain or clouds!! So all you people with nice thunderstorms coming through...v here's ur smack .....








LOL @ abso freakinlutely NOTHING. I have NEVER laughed so hard at that.

.. Just go on..lol..with your rain gettin self...