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[La Casa de Pollo]

That is probably about how the big one is feeling! The little one just keeps ducking underneath her. Over, and over. and over.

 

[themadchicken]

Quote: lisa, do you have wild quail in you yard? if so make sure they cant get to the coturnix quail. They are very territorial. They will kill the cortex or any other domestic quail, no matter how big the domestic are.

 

[sundancenbare]

Michelle, no breeding for me, I have not gotten brave enough to keep a rooster, or decide what kind to keep. As far as eggs from my girls go.... I have gotten no Polish eggs EVER from my golden laced who is a year old...and my blue one that got bit by the dog stopped when she got hurt. She lays awesome big eggs and about 5/week, pretty good. And my third, a white with black head is only 5 months old so it might be awhile.

Guess what? My DH just showed up. With the two chicks, he kept them in the trunk....Soooo they were freezing. AND he brought two button quail home, in a second little box....I thought they were dead, not moving at all. We put them under heat, and one started moving, then the other...looks like one is perfectly fine now and the second one I am not sure, it is alive though and doing much better. He just did not realize/think about putting them under the heater in the car. He felt soooo bad! And then we felt so happy when they perked up! I went from crying to so happy. I will get pics, they are so itty bitty.

Funny dialogue between us..
Then he says "we will have to wait a while to put those little ones in the coop "

Ummmmm....dear, those stay in the house. They are an inside toy. He is so cute, he was trying to surprise me with the quail I was talking about getting , but did not understand the difference between the jumbo coturnix and button. I love that man for trying so hard! Bu he is a little lacking in chicken information here. I was giving him a hard time...the Delaware is probably 2 weeks old, the jap bantam a day or two old, so the Delaware is 4 or 5 times the size of the little one. Not so sure how this is going to work out in the brooder, but we are trying. " Honey, chicks need to play with friends their own size" I said.....He says "I can go get more chicks, right now, as many as you want!" Then I say noooooooooo not right now we are good. I think somebody else has chicken math around here this year.

Sundance this reminded me of when Ed went crazy hatching quail. I hope I have not created a monster

That is just what I was thinking. Eds buttons are living in our house in a very nice terriarium He talks to them and counts the eggs. I set some quail eggs some Serama Eggs I brought home and a bunch of my blue and green eggs. Also I have someone laying Olive eggs. I set those as well

 

[auntie hattie]

Sundance you are home! I can't wait to see your Serama's.

Lisa those are some cute little chicks. So glad they made it back from the deep freeze.

There is so much hatching going on here!

I for one am done after the ones in my incubator hatch. I just sold all my little Polish today except for the two fizzles I kept. I'm hoping at least one is a girl. There is a WC black one and a WC cuckoo. I will take pictures when they feather out a bit more.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

lisa, do you have wild quail in you yard? if so make sure they cant get to the coturnix quail. They are very territorial. They will kill the cortex or any other domestic quail, no matter how big the domestic are. 

Thanks for telling me that! If I do get the coturnix, they would be in an enclosure, by the chickens, so they would not free range at all. I bet we do have quail out there, we live where there are tons of birds. We had killdeer hatching in our gravel road the last two springs..and I have pheasant in my back yard every day, so I will be sure to be careful. These little guys we got today will be in the house only.

So my husband said the green powdery food they gave him is turkey starter, and they told him if quails eat chicken feed they will die. I have learned to take IFA personnel advice with a grain of salt....anybody know about this? Any info appreciated!

 

[agreger]

Lisa those chicks are so cute. You ladies made me so chick hungry that i made a trip to IFA and came home with 2 Delaware this afternoon. My daughter had a hard time deciding what to get. The smaller one seems like she will be a feisty one. lol I hope the 7 ladies I currently own will be good to them when they go in in a few months. How do you ladies go about adding to your flock? We lost our favorite chicken a few weeks ago and since then I had a crash course in chicken care. Little did I know but I think I got it figured out thanks to all the wonderful information here.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Lisa those chicks are so cute. You ladies made me so chick hungry that i made a trip to IFA and came home with 2 Delaware this afternoon. My daughter had a hard time deciding what to get. The smaller one seems like she will be a feisty one. lol I hope the 7 ladies I currently own will be good to them when they go in in a few months. How do you ladies go about adding to your flock? We lost our favorite chicken a few weeks ago and since then I had a crash course in chicken care. Little did I know but I think I got it figured out thanks to all the wonderful information here.

Thanks! So sorry to hear about your losing one, that is sad! To transition chicks to the big girl house-- I usually put them in a big wire cage with their own food and water, right inside the coop, at 6 weeks plus. They all can see each other for a while, then after a bit I open/prop the cage door wide enough that the chicks can go in and out but the big girls cant get in, so they have a place to go if they get chase. Eventually the chicks stay out of the cage more and more, and they all get along (usually!) If you do not have a cage, I did not last year, I just made lots of hiding place for the babies around because the big girls will chase and peck at first. Little wood piles, a board to hide behind, anything like that helps. You can use chicken wire to section off an area. Whatever creative idea you can come up with.

Your daughter picked good! Delawares are good layers, and very mellow tempered At least from what I have read and seen.

Hattie, cannot wait to see, I hope you have TWO girls!

 

[SashaT]

Michelle, no breeding for me, I have not gotten brave enough to keep a rooster, or decide what kind to keep. As far as eggs from my girls go.... I have gotten no Polish eggs EVER from my golden laced who is a year old...and my blue one that got bit by the dog stopped when she got hurt. She lays awesome big eggs and about 5/week, pretty good. And my third, a white with black head is only 5 months old so it might be awhile.

Guess what? My DH just showed up. With the two chicks, he kept them in the trunk....Soooo they were freezing. AND he brought two button quail home, in a second little box....I thought they were dead, not moving at all. We put them under heat, and one started moving, then the other...looks like one is perfectly fine now and the second one I am not sure, it is alive though and doing much better. He just did not realize/think about putting them under the heater in the car. He felt soooo bad! And then we felt so happy when they perked up! I went from crying to so happy. I will get pics, they are so itty bitty.

Funny dialogue between us..
Then he says "we will have to wait a while to put those little ones in the coop "

Ummmmm....dear, those stay in the house. They are an inside toy. He is so cute, he was trying to surprise me with the quail I was talking about getting , but did not understand the difference between the jumbo coturnix and button. I love that man for trying so hard! Bu he is a little lacking in chicken information here. I was giving him a hard time...the Delaware is probably 2 weeks old, the jap bantam a day or two old, so the Delaware is 4 or 5 times the size of the little one. Not so sure how this is going to work out in the brooder, but we are trying. " Honey, chicks need to play with friends their own size" I said.....He says "I can go get more chicks, right now, as many as you want!" Then I say noooooooooo not right now we are good. I think somebody else has chicken math around here this year.

Sundance this reminded me of when Ed went crazy hatching quail. I hope I have not created a monster

LOVE this story! Glad your new babies are doing alright. Those itty bitties are so cute! You know I'm a sucker for the tiny ones.

Something totally unrelated to chickens....those of you with grown children-how do you let them go when they decide it's time to move out of the house...2,500 miles away? Ugh! My oldest (19 this coming April) has decided to move back to Texas (where we lived for 4 years before we came to Logan). I'm having major anxiety, to say the least.

 

[SashaT]

Forgot to ad that my daughter has 3 ducks that will need new homes...they are all girls, all just started laying this past month to month and a half. Getting an egg about 6 days a week from each of them. 1 Buff orpington and 2 Anconas that we hatched ourselves from eggs we got from a breeder on the east coast. One is black & white the other is blue and white. Gorgeous girls, can get pictures for anyone who wants to see them.

I set eggs this morning! 10 from my own flock. I set 6 from the cochins, 2 from Hedwig's smaller eggs and 2 from the LF Wyandottes that were smallish...considering the roosters are both bantam, we'll see how that goes. I wasn't going to set any because if Clay or Clyde fertilized either of the LF laced Wyandottes eggs, those will be some funny looking babies if they hatch! LOL But, why not? This will be my trial run with my new bator I bought from Cynthia!

I did order 15 Bantam Ameraucana eggs today from Stromberg's...they couldn't give me an exact date as to when they would ship though.

They said 2-4 weeks, they would let me know. SO, hopefully we'll have some babies in a month or two...Hattie, do you still want a couple wheaten Amer girls? Keep your fingers crossed!

 

[corvidae]

[COLOR=800080]LOVE this story!  Glad your new babies are doing alright.  Those itty bitties are so cute!  You know I'm a sucker for the tiny ones.   [/COLOR]

[COLOR=800080]Something totally unrelated to chickens....those of you with grown children-how do you let them go when they decide it's time to move out of the house...2,500 miles away?  Ugh!  My oldest (19 this coming April) has decided to move back to Texas (where we lived for 4 years before we came to Logan).  I'm having major anxiety, to say the least.[/COLOR]

Ugh, I am not looking forward to that. My oldest is only 13, but I can see time flying by and already feel a little heartache at the thought of him leaving. I want him to grow up and live his own life, but only if it is within easy travel distance, dammit.

We got back this afternoon from an overnight trip to the land. Stayed up late watching movies on the iPad, then couldn't sleep because all those stupid roosters wouldn't stop crowing. What kind of idiot rooster crows at 2 am?! Why couldn't those stupid chicken thieves take some of the roosters, too?? I haven't had time to send any of them to freezer camp yet, so there are still waaaay to many up there and I'm pretty sure they broke out in chorus at one point. **** roosters think they are an a Capella group. Only not so harmonious...