OK, at risk of getting hollered at, i have a couple of questions.
I've noticed that some of ya'll raise quail and pheasants, as well as chickens.
I am going to try to put together an incubator, in the next coupla weeks, and risk buying some Serama and other bantam eggs, either on
ebay and/or at the POOPS get together. now, I am figuring that the incubator will probably be built into an ice chest or an old dormroom size fridge i have in my barn, so I think it would be a waste of space, to just incubate a half dozen or a dozen batam eggs. I thought to maybe bulk up the hatch with some quail eggs, or, if I get to feeling froggy and full of beans, some pheasants. (or maybe a jersey giant ,for contrast!
) now, I am aware that the hatch times are different for all the breeds, sizes, species, etc. BUT, is there a problem with incubating them at the same time, in the same bator?
That being said, can the chicks be kept in the same brooder, or will i need a different brooder?
My peeps are going to be in a pen (I am hoping to build one that matches the historic barn, here at the museum) but I am wondering about letting the quail/ pheasants free range on the acreage.
And here is where I might get hollered at: Are there ethical issues to consider, raising the chicks in a brooder, and then letting them go, essentially "releasing them into the wild" as it were?
I have several acres, here, with wild birds of various sorts, and it is, in fact, a no-hunt area, being a state museum, but there are hundreds of acres of woodland surrounding it, and I wouldn't be able to just keep them on mine, if they wanted to venture out.
Thoughts?
