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WOW! Congratulations!!! They are beautiful!!!
Adorable. I love the set up with the mirrors and the food dish. WHat is the bedding you are using. straw?
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Luckily for me they are very popular in my area, everybody has ticks and snakes so they are looking for natural pest control. Lots of farmland and horse country here, and large acreage ranches etc. I can and do advertise over a pretty broad area since I'm sort of at the corner of where 3 counties touch. I imagine after selling so many in this area for a few yrs in a row eventually everybody will have keets of their own for sale and hopefully I'll have moved on to breeding Peafowl by then, lol. (Not everybody is as diligent about egg collecting and incubating as I have been tho, lol). There is also the meat bird angle, it's popular here too, (I'd easily sell 100 birds in 6 hours at the local flea market), but so far I've tried not to sell my birds to people that specifically want to consume them. Eventually it may come to that tho if I get stuck with a bunch of birds at the end of the year!
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What a GREAT photo - love the mirrors! They are just so very cute aren't they!
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The bedding is rye grass hay, with very little to none of the rye grain in it... so yah, basically straw, lol. I usually have them on rubberized shelf liner and old towels the first several days, but I've depleted my supply of the shelf liner, (haven't been to town to get more), so they went straight to the hay bedding on day 2. The feed and water dishes are what I start them out with, they seem to learn to eat and drink quicker, and I gradually move them further down the brooder each day until they are at the far end, then I switch them out to the traditional little round 8 hole feeders and the small poultry waterers. And the mirrors keep the keets entertained and help calm them (cuz they think there are twice as many keets in the brooder with them I think, lol).
The bedding is rye grass hay, with very little to none of the rye grain in it... so yah, basically straw, lol. I usually have them on rubberized shelf liner and old towels the first several days, but I've depleted my supply of the shelf liner, (haven't been to town to get more), so they went straight to the hay bedding on day 2. The feed and water dishes are what I start them out with, they seem to learn to eat and drink quicker, and I gradually move them further down the brooder each day until they are at the far end, then I switch them out to the traditional little round 8 hole feeders and the small poultry waterers. And the mirrors keep the keets entertained and help calm them (cuz they think there are twice as many keets in the brooder with them I think, lol).
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The bedding is rye grass hay, with very little to none of the rye grain in it... so yah, basically straw, lol. I usually have them on rubberized shelf liner and old towels the first several days, but I've depleted my supply of the shelf liner, (haven't been to town to get more), so they went straight to the hay bedding on day 2. The feed and water dishes are what I start them out with, they seem to learn to eat and drink quicker, and I gradually move them further down the brooder each day until they are at the far end, then I switch them out to the traditional little round 8 hole feeders and the small poultry waterers. And the mirrors keep the keets entertained and help calm them (cuz they think there are twice as many keets in the brooder with them I think, lol).
Wow How many incubators do you have going at once?
The bedding is rye grass hay, with very little to none of the rye grain in it... so yah, basically straw, lol. I usually have them on rubberized shelf liner and old towels the first several days, but I've depleted my supply of the shelf liner, (haven't been to town to get more), so they went straight to the hay bedding on day 2. The feed and water dishes are what I start them out with, they seem to learn to eat and drink quicker, and I gradually move them further down the brooder each day until they are at the far end, then I switch them out to the traditional little round 8 hole feeders and the small poultry waterers. And the mirrors keep the keets entertained and help calm them (cuz they think there are twice as many keets in the brooder with them I think, lol).
Wow How many incubators do you have going at once?
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4... double loaded, lol
What kind of incubators?
4... double loaded, lol
What kind of incubators?
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