Hi
I am going to get some button quail in spring from
my friend. I need some tips for the height, I want to do a 2ft roof that way I can grow some quail friendly plants.
Hi
I have two kacki campbells that are 25 weeks old and are STILL not laying. I have two kiddy pools for them and my two Cayugas (one drake and a hen) they are free roam on one acre with 21 chickens.
So
I'm debating on how much space bantam need.
I'm building a new bantam coop for anywhere in between 6 to 10 bantams.
It will be a coop with no run( if it all goes according to plan)
I am having such a hard time raising chickens this round. I’m not sure if its because last time
I had a closed flock (I hatched and raised my own) and this time I bought pullets from a few local homesteaders.
We had lice a few months ago. I could see them when the chickens were laying eggs...
Trying to figure out the breed for these two. The solid black was supposed be jersey giant and the other with brown collar was supposed to be a black onyx.
We have a temp coop set up to hold our bachelors until butcher day. We don’t have a lot of predators but we still occasionally get stray cats. One decided last night to show up and the quail all hit their heads repeatedly on the wire roof part and wood roof part. I woke up to alive but literally...
We had 13 hens and 2 roos in a large aviary. We hatched some more and added them at 4 weeks old per a few expert recommendations. We noticed the head roo was extremely rough and attacking old and new quail. So we culled him and his beat up other roo because he had a extra long curled beak and...
I hatched a bunch of jumbo coturnix quail for a friend recently and learned my lesson not getting a deposit because she just flaked on buying them. My coops are full and I have no space to keep them long term. They are 4.5 weeks old and I have 8 females and 9 males available. All healthy and fed...