I got these guys home and have them in a small cage up on some sawhorses. The cage has about 4 square feet of floor area and I have made them a nice little sandbox to enjoy. I was rewarded with an egg this morning. It is the CUTEST thing ever!
The quail are so friendly. They come right...
I am sitting here looking at a cage with two small coturnix quail. I have no idea about what I should do with them. They are about 5 weeks old - a male and a female.
They do make some really cool noises and I am enjoying watching them. If I build a little quail tractor would that be OK for...
I should add that Pat is out of a different hatch from a different location but within days of the others. Pat is twice or more the size of the black ones. I never thought of Pat being a game cross since his hen was a giant puffy gold hen that looked like a buff orpington. There were many...
Here are some updated pics of my guys from today. Do you guys think the earlier id's stick? They are around 12 weeks old. The roosters are getting really pretty! I am going to keep one (maybe two if they keep getting along) but I am not sure what to do about the rest. They are all very...
Everyone was alive and well but I was short one RIR and one EE. I am not going to worry about it because I got an extra SLW.
Everyone is EDP so I think they will be good to go. I am going to do a pasty butt check this afternoon.
They dominique chicks are really mean! As soon as I opened the...
I know that none of them are purebred anything. The gold guys does not actually have green legs, the lighting was bad so that probably caused the color to be off. His legs are very yellow and the feathers on them are only on the outside.
The black ones came from two hens but they were...
My friend gave me these guys as day old chicks back in June. Some were solid black as chicks and some were mostly black with a little bit of white when they were small and fuzzy. I had two yellows, I believe that they were sex linked because one had a black double diamondish shape on it's head...
Well, I just got notification from them about when my chicks would be going out. I was hoping for a specific day so I could take some time off work to be home. I guess since I live in a small town, I can give my post office a heads up and hope they catch them and hold them for me?
Thanks for...
I have a batch of 4 week old game crosses now, they will be going in the coop/run once it is complete later this week. In mid to late August, I will be getting a shipment of 15 heavier breed chicks from MPC. I will put them in the outdoor frankencage (not using a brooder, it will be august...
I ordered from my pet chicken, this is what I have on the list
3 Dominiques
3 Easter Eggers
3 Golden Laced Wyandottes
2 Rhode Island Reds
3 Silver Laced Wyandottes
Right now I have some 4 week old game crosses and a buff orpington cross.
I plan to rehome any extras if all of them survive.