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Hey friends. Hope everyone is enjoying their Monday! Happy 311 to those who like the band :) Anyways so I breed Coturnix Quail for therapy, fun and sharing with friends. 43 year old mid life crisis. Well anyways I started this journey December 2022 of incubation and actually started with...

For the past 4 years I have used artificial light for an extra 3 hours or so after darkness for my chickens. Just started breeding quail last summer so they have been using artificial light since then. Starting this summer I’m going to stop using light however since I have used it for so long...

Hatched out a few baby quail. I don’t breed true I breed for plumage coloring and for fun and to share the babies with friends. Started breeding beginning of summer and started with 1 male and 1 female of each type. Just wondering for fun. ***Pretty cool info:I had quail eggs rocking on my...

Hiii! I have 3 older hens that are starting to get slower daily and are having some issues and looking a little raggedy. Here’s Oreo our Barred Rock Hen who was named after our 16 year old black lab mixed who passed on hospice a few months before starting our chicken journey. Anyways Oreo has a...

Smaller 3 (2 brown and 1 black) are just shy of 5 months old and all the others are almost 7 months old. Ok we will have photo overload today in this thread. I typically know 100% the sex of the chicken. But when it comes to Easter Eggers I sometimes am clueless. I will post some Easter Eggers...

Ok so I’ve had chickens for 4 years. Every time I get a rooster in the mix my girls constantly have white on their bottoms that looks like caked up Rooster Juice. Never so my hens get white booties unless the roosters have been mating. Anyone else notice this? Everywhere I have searched for...

I currently have 12 coturnix quail eggs in my incubator that are actually growing right along! No issues so far with any eggs when candling they are all looking good. I had some eggs on my rocker for about a month and decided what the heck I may as well give it a try. I’m wondering how many will...

First 2 pics is before breaking yolk second picture is when I broke the yolk. Typically I just incubate wait 5 days then see if it’s fertile by candling. This time I just happened to be making an egg breakfast for my chickens snack and noticed.

I have several EE chickens I hatched along with my other breeds. The EE are now 6 months old however none crow! I’m pretty good at determining sex of chickens that are not EE but I’m stumped. I was making them some breakfast this morning and this egg looked different when cracked open than the...

I’ll have to admit sticking your finger inside the tiny hole of a k cup to open and dry to use for chickens or even plants is a pain! This little gadget came in a 2 pack in the clearance isle at Walmart for less than a buck.

for fun I breed chickens :-) you know it all starts with that 1 accidental Rooster and an incubator lol. Anyways I have a Black Australorp that is 11 months old. She started laying around 5 months old and her egg size has not changed. Still small pullet size for an awfully big chick! Note that I...