Quail Eggs!

So, I moved the quail down to the barn. This made it so that I was able to put a light on them. It's been 2 or 3 weeks and they finally started laying! Well, one of them did anyway... I'm sure the others will soon too. The plan is to wait until the others start laying and I'm getting like 2-3 per day (I have 3 hens) and then incubate. I found an old white wooden egg and put it in the nest box down in the chicken coop. I know the days are still pretty short but if one of the chickens does go broody I'll probably pop a few under her.

Anyway, there's the sneak peak for all you bloggers! I'll put out a youtube video later.

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Waterer Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpiYEnsWYSQ

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Another Update (September 2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDlbqXX7B4c

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September Quail Update

So, I had  viewer ask for a quail update a while back. I forgot about it till now so I made one. Going good I think!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5UFHwOaKdk

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August 2016 Update (A Duck Died)

Ok, SUPER LOOOOONG video. Sorry about that. I'll try and do shorter videos for y'all.

Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hr2jc86JpE

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Eggs

Used to be I'd have all chicken eggs. Now that I sold most of my big chickens and got quail and bantams the scales are starting to tip!

That long one pointing toward the chicken egg was a double yolk! I wonder if double yolked eggs would have trouble hatching. Hmmm...

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Picture Post!!

Ok, several recent pictures. Coming up!!

Hay wagon silhouette

Joshua looking at his new baby rabbits

Lot's of hay

Joshua's calf in the back and Blitz, laura's calf, in the front

The small yellow chick in the next few pics is from one of my light brahma hens and my ISA rooster(sold now). He/she is dead now but it was fun watching it grow into different colors. Black, white, yellow, red, I like mutli-color animals.

White, yellow, and a little black on the chest.

All three again on the back and sides.

One of the three black bantam cochin/yellow silkie chicks

Love the feet!

Turkeys!!!

Two white silkie hens and the white silkie roo. The rooster died for some reason recently. :/

Another great hay wagon pic.

The new chicks

The brooder

Ok, that's all for the pics. I'll try to get some more sometime.

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Quail Update and... I guess you'd call it an update?

Ok, quail are doing good. No eggs though. :(
Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1auwommkYM

Here's another video of me walking around talking my head off. I don't know how long it is but if you like long this is for you! I usually try for shorter but I took this anyway. Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW-4v_8mMBo

Ok, picture post coming soon. Subscribe on G+ if you want. And

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Quail!!

So, I finally found some quail on craigslist the other day. I got four hens and a rooster. I brought a rabbit pen up from the barn and put it beside our tool shed. What I'm feeding them is just what I have for the turkeys. It says 'for quail too' on the bag so I guess it's fine. When I went down to check on them a few hours later they had laid two eggs for me. I gave them to Zach and he was thrilled! I made an omelet for him this morning.

Alright y'all, here come the pics!

The hens have been heavily bred recently and don't have any feathers on the back on their head. I am going to research how many hens per male for quail and I might take him out for a while. I think they're fine though. And that they just were in with too many roosters before I got them. Ok, on to the pictures!

A Male (notice the rusty red chest)

A Hen (notice the speckled chest/neck)

For some reason these ten(about) chicks lick to sleep in the nest box. 

For the first few nights I put them back on the roost but they like it here.

This guy eventually decided that he didn't fit in the nest box with them.

So he found another roost.

 Every group seems to have their own corner of the coop. Just ones that get pushed off the roost though. Most of the big chickens go on the roost.

Two buff chicks, three white silkies, one buff silkie, and one partridge silkie.

One buff silkie hen and her two chicks.

A buff/black silkie.

And more pictures of the quail!

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The Big Brooder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMcXr6KTAqk

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The Quail Died

Yup,

I but it in a box under the heat lamp in the brooder with the turkeys

I thought that the turkeys couldn't get to it but they were in the small cardboard box with it when I checked on them. They trampled it and killed it.

Anyway, I might try to get some more sometime but for now I am going to just try to keep the animals that I have alive and healthy.

OK, Gotta go

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One quail egg hatched so far

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