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Good Morning Folks....

First day off in several and it's to rain here today as well ( and glad it's not snow).


CapricornFarm said:
The eggs are due to hatch the same day i have my biopsy, the 20th. May hatch early as it was running hot to start with. Not sure about mixing quail of different ages, but i can put her in half of the duplex cage and them in the other half. I keep looking for quail on CL, but they are all too far away.
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So sorry about Solo, only one surviving is quite sad. Hope your hatch goes well and praying your biopsy is negative :fl....kinda weird the dates fall on the same day, maybe a good omen.

Michelle Farmer-Brown said:
Good morning everyone. Very late start here.

I posted this in another forum but didn't get answers...

I know it's not recommended to feed chickens chicken, but what about feeding them Turkey?

I made a bunch of dill pickled yellow squash last fall that came out too mushy for my liking. Is it ok to give those to the gang, or too much salt?
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IMO feeding chicken or turkey meat won't hurt them, BUT commercial poultry have antibiotics, steroids and likely growth hormones in them and I would only give them small amounts of either if they were labeled to be "organic" without those...but who knows how truthful the industry is :duc.

Wonder if they would like any pickled item? Too much salt would be a concern.

My biggest mistake was giving mine processed meats - like hot dogs....they love them but get the squirts and then have to bath those behinds :sick
 
N F C said:
:barnieThat can be frustrating!

Good to see you this morning, been busy working?
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Yep, we have 2 folks taking off way too much time, so back to being scheduled too many days in a row.

Bitty does come out a couple of times a day with encouragement - but I did have to give her water one evening in the nest. I think this will be her 3rd week so hopefully she'll get over it soon...but if not may have to use some of the broody breaking ideas :(
 
sunflour said:
Yep, we have 2 folks taking off way too much time, so back to being scheduled too many days in a row.

Bitty does come out a couple of times a day with encouragement - but I did have to give her water one evening in the nest. I think this will be her 3rd week so hopefully she'll get over it soon...but if not may have to use some of the broody breaking ideas :(
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I used to have a non-stop broody in the FL flock. I finally resorted to using the broody buster cage with a hardware cloth bottom and got some limited results from that. After being in that for a couple days, she'd seem to be over it but within a week or two, she'd be back to her old broody self. I gave up and re-homed her to a friend that said she wanted her for sitting on fertile eggs.
 
N F C said:
I used to have a non-stop broody in the FL flock. I finally resorted to using the broody buster cage with a hardware cloth bottom and got some limited results from that. After being in that for a couple days, she'd seem to be over it but within a week or two, she'd be back to her old broody self. I gave up and re-homed her to a friend that said she wanted her for sitting on fertile eggs.
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Actually it's my opine that one cannot really use physical or mechanical methods to change their hormones - but I did remove the nest curtains and on warm sunny days, we leave the door to the coop open....no luck thus far. The biggest problem is that she is #6 gal and with her attitude it makes it difficult for her to access food/water unless we stand guard...DH's job of course ;)
 

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