Been on my To Try List for years...Jersey Giants...so I looking for a few like 2 hen/1 Roo...4weeks to 4month...age group....Like to drive to pick up..200m max....We live in Van Vleck tx near Bay City tx on central Tx coast...within a mile of Hy 35....so if ya got let me know( how, when ,where...
was active member a few years back in Quail , well raised 1000s but got tired of processing them lil guys and stopped a year or so ago...WellI back and gona do a few Laying hens<10 and Meat rabbits 4 adults..
Grew up on tx coast cotton patch/rice...had chic/rabbits/cows/turk/geese/ducks....so...
Why do they have such a BEAK it can be vicious/it is..But usually there is a reason for /something in there native food source.Any Ideas or answers please...cva34
How do you clean/Gut your Quail..? I feel like I have don it every way possible..The fastest and easiest for me and my big fingers is ;Take the picked bird in left hand breast down,neck towards you .Take a pair of poultry shears slide blade in one side of neck allowing tip to ride along inside...
Got 100 cots and 35 bobs ready to process. Thats enough to get me to Fall (cooler times).Once I get those processed I will have less body heat in bird area so the egg layers can make the summer we had 3 :105 days lately...cva34
Got to build a Grow out cage for 100 Jumbo Brn/AM .This will be for use from out of brooder 3/4 week to7/8 week time frame then to freezer...Yea I know 1sf per bird for mature birds .What size do I need to build were talking 1 cage ???? your input please??? thx... cva34
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Trying to get a list of Thermostats that members have used and (good or bad report). Your favorites and why...
#1 For me is Incubator Warehouse .Its like $49.00.In my exp.it controls <.5 deg F . DIGITAL and all electronics are mounted on outside of Incubator (out of high humidity) only a few...
Recently had to seperate some BW. There about to kill one male .So I have 1 male and 3 Fem in each cage. One of the fem at times starts calling the male puffs up and runs and pecks her(ruff). Do you think shes calling that other male (maybe they had bonded) and this male is trying to convert...
Saw some Quail (supposed to be Tex A&M ) bout a year old.They were 99.9% white with a black feather or 2 on the head of some .Also had black mark (streak) on there bill on some.There were a few eggs in there pure white .and really pointy on small end .Eggs small and birds weighed 5 to 7 oz...
Anyone useing Brinsea Eco-Brooder.I recently got one from Randel-Burke Co.Just haven,t used it yet .Planing to in next month.7L farms kind of triggered the ??? in a recent post.I'm asking for TIPS and Helpful info and Do's and Don'ts...cva34 THXs
I have used play sand .Its just too high. I can get beach sand free.Sand blast sand at less than 1/2 price of play sand. River bank sand free I think.What you guys use???...thx...cva34
I never thought of Quail as green stuff eating birds.Bobwhites and a few A&M. Bring them Bobs a armload of lettuce/turnip,radish greens/mustard greens/etc and they meet you at door.They eat and call each other to lunch, cackle and just have the best time digging through the leaves and in an...
I wish members would post there location (general area /town/central Ohio /west tx/)when answering post its helpful to know .Don't want address just some idea,( if when they say cold from Alaska) (or say cold from south Tx) there is a slight DIFF!!! in how you answer the ?????...cva34