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Hiya.
Thankyou for inviting me into the fold.
My name is Reb &
I am a chicken keeper from Australia.
My hubby and I are living the dream on 40 acres on which we raise goats, sheep, pigs, horses and fowl... All in small quantities but enough to keep us in work 😂 and food.
I also have a huge vegie garden which supplies us all most of the time.
I have been keeping chickens for a few years but still consider myself a novice.
I mainly have silver and golden lace wyandotts and silver seabright that I try to breed.
But also a mixed flock that consists of a plymouth rock, a black australorp and a couple of silver cross golden laced wyandotts (yes the golden laced rooster snuck into the silver lace girls dorm 😂😂😂).
I use my mixed flock for eating eggs ❤️.
I also have some indian runner ducks and a muscovy female just because I loooove them.
My latest projects include,
Attempting to incubatr Vorwek eggs, growing meal worms and cinstructing a chook fodder tower.
And I am so excited to have found this wonderful group that has my head spinning with ideas and plans.. Thankyou for being here, being such an inspiration and fueling my addiction 😂😂😂❤️🙏
 
Since you have the space and an incubator, have you considered raising Japanese coturnix quail? A small 2x3' elevated cage can very comfortably house one cock & his harem of three or four hens. It's recommended that only one cock per cage as quail can fight to the death for the right to breed. Stacking the cages can be done easily as they don't weigh much. From hatched to laying/meat producing is a mere six to eight weeks, at just under one ounce of high protein game-bird feed (20% protein, give or take) per bird. Dressed weight (meat birds) is about a quarter pound each and unlike chickens, the meat is every bit as tender on a 'spent' hen as it is on a just started pullet. Best of all, your quail will thank you to bring them fresh water and food, and pretty much leave them the heck alone; Five minutes a day to gather eggs and confirm that everyone's doing alright.
Very sustainable.
 

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