Slow Night Here In Quailville

[JJMR794]

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YEAH THATS WHY IT PAYS to keep your laying stock a while... The older the hen the bigger the egg, the bigger the egg the bigger the chick, the bigger chicks stand better chance at survival.

 

[Overeasyplz]

I knew there was a reason why you don't set non-conforming eggs!! The girls are laying pretty nice sized eggs now!

 

[jenjscott]

here's a really good page full of quail and quail egg recipes

http://www.jphpk.gov.my/English/pigeont recipes.htm

 

[jenjscott]

I lost a few quail to these darn buffalo gnats. I hope they don't last too long. I've got to regorganize my pens, between a couple of escapees and the buffalo gnats the pens are a little out of balance. I want to get them sorted and organized and then leave them alone before they all go to laying.

 

[JJMR794]

Bummer

 

[kingmt]

I was wondering about this thread. It has been slow around here lately & I was thinking of digging this thread up.

Sorry about the gnats. I had something break into my coop the other night & kill all but 2 of my started pullets. It got about 100 of them.

 

[jenjscott]

Oh, no, that sounds like dogs. I had something get a full grown tom turkey and carry it off. I think it must have been a coyote or bobcat. I don't know anything else around here that could do that.

 

[crash0330]

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Damn you have bobcats in your area! that must be pretty wild I've never even seen one in my life even tho i live in the desert, I have a friend who lives like an hour away from me he says bobcats are a huge threat where he lives he says one time a mountain lion broke into his coop and killed a bunch of his chukars!!

 

[kingmt]

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Not unless it can dig a 4" tunnel into the coop.

 

[aprophet]

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Damn you have bobcats in your area! that must be pretty wild I've never even seen one in my life even tho i live in the desert, I have a friend who lives like an hour away from me he says bobcats are a huge threat where he lives he says one time a mountain lion broke into his coop and killed a bunch of his chukars!!

we have bobkitties here at va beach they are a lot of places and most folks just don,t realize it I worked for a couple of folks who keep birds /chickens I only caught 3 this year