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The roosters are back and in Camp Freezer. 15 went to the processor and 15 came back. So far no losses. They average about 5.5 lbs. they each ate roughly 20 lbs of feed. So doing the napkin math each rooster had 7.50 in feed, 2.50 in bedding, 1.50 for the chick and 3.50 in processing adding up to about 15 bucks for a 5.5 lbs bird, or roughly 3 dollars a pound. I’m perfectly happy with that price for my own meat.  Full circle, the first roo was delicious. Thank you for going on this journey with me goons. I recommend anyone with the space, time and processing facility close by raise their own birds. It’s very rewarding. The hens are still bulking up but I feel like they may not get any bigger than 3-4 lbs. and that’s okay it’s good to have some smaller birds. The legs on these roosters are huge. This is a 10 inch plate and the thigh alone takes up most of it. 
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hello friends, it's avshalom. i need you all to know before the forums burn down forever and/or i get permabanned again that a few months ago, over the course of three terrible nights, three of my quail - quimmy, qtothe, and my sweet felafel - were slain. i believe the culprit was a rat. friday survived, and has been sleeping ever since in a box inside to keep her safe. this was a tragedy and my heart was broken. losing felafel was especially hard, as he was approximately a thousand years old and had travelled with me across the country. but quail are a symbol of mortality, and death is part of life... and life always finds a way to continue  friday now has three new friends, which i bought from the weirdest loving animal house i've ever been inside. believe me, being a quail hobbyist takes you inside some very strange houses. this one was the strangest. they had ferrets in the kitchen! ferrets! in the kitchen! my new angels are matzo  quimiii  and moose  they are thriving. moose survived a raven attack the other day; they die so easily that it's bizarre and almost troubling when one actually manages to live. and of course, friday is still doing well. she is very precious, as she carries on the bloodline not only of felafel, but of the mysterious frida quailo  and that is how things are going with the quail. shalom to all of you, and your magnificent flocks, and may we all meet together in the afterlife wild drama llama fucked around with this message at 11:54 on Jun 24, 2020 |
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wild drama llama posted:and moose Oh no; you may discovered a breed of Quail that doesn't instinctively rush towards the most immediate and undignified end they can find at any given moment  .RIP Felafel though  .
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Thanks for the update avs, I had been wondering about the quail. Sorry to hear about Felafel.
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felafel is with harambe now, standing guard over the heavens here's the last photo i ever took of the king: 
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Jun 24, 2020 12:17
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Oh poo poo, I'm so sorry.wild drama llama posted:
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Jun 24, 2020 12:25
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Sleep well, beloved quail. Welcome, new quail friends to friday's flock. 
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Jun 24, 2020 13:04
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After a week in the run we're letting our hens out and about in the garden now, they're loving just laying on the ground in front of the beehives. They're getting more confident as well and will eat out of our hands now which is good. 2 out of the 3 laying now so hopefully they're settling in.
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rats are so difficult to keep out of a hutch once they know there's an easy feed available that every single night, i gather the four quail into a cardboard box and bring them inside. it's become a beloved ritual of ours
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We bought a couple of these: https://www.amazon.com/Havahart-One-Door-Chipmunk-Squirrel-X-Small/dp/B000BPAVCG for the times that we have any rats show up on our nighttime wildlife camera. Any rats caught are set free a couple of miles away. Possibly the neighbour's cats do the job for us, including any mice. Local cats are afraid / suspicious of our hens so we don't get any problems from them.
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spookygonk posted:We bought a couple of these: Cats are something we're a bit worried about to be honest, just monitoring them just now. What kind of trail cam do you use out of interest?
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wild drama llama posted:felafel is with harambe now, standing guard over the heavens Taken too soon Also, i cant contribute but ive really been missing the quailposts in this thread.
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Aramoro posted:Cats are something we're a bit worried about to be honest, just monitoring them just now. What kind of trail cam do you use out of interest? I'm in the UK, but Amazon US has the same camera: Neewer Trail Game Camera
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Quote is not edit. It's been working perfectly for months now. Only thing I do is put a strip of gaffer / waterproof tape over the top edge so no rain water gets in (a problem with a different make that was sent back for a refund).
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Jun 24, 2020 18:44
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spookygonk posted:I'm in the UK, but Amazon US has the same camera: I am also in the UK! Well in Scotland so in the UK for now.
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Jun 24, 2020 22:08
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Aramoro posted:I am also in the UK! Well in Scotland so in the UK for now. Hey fellow UK, chicken keeping goon. The camera was this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07S67VM4N but its annoyingly out of stock.
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Jun 24, 2020 22:40
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If nothing else I am glad there is one last quailpost.
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Jun 25, 2020 08:23
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Is there any offsite for PI yet? I don’t have chickens yet but was planning on it and the stories and advice in here have been invaluable, and losing this would suck. Also it’s an honor to be posting with avshalom, here, at the end of the world
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So sorry about Felafel and the others, avs. I'm so sad, but glad that their legacy continues. I don't think I've ever posted in this thread (e:wrong, but only a few posts!) but it's always been a lovely place to lurk and see bird photos and get invested, so thank you all fowl keepers, you're doing god's work and I'll really miss you all.
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I'm also looking for an alternative. Otherwise https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/ is all I know. Haven't seen Chido in so many years. If all goes down the tubes this will have to be the final salute to my chicken inspiration. And thanks everybody else too, couldn't have done it w/o you.
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Jun 25, 2020 21:43
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BYC forums lack a certain... irreverence
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Also, since there probably won't be another chance to post me fondling broody Turkey's breast: https://i.imgur.com/O5sBE2J.mp4
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Check the latest announcement and stop running around like headless... oh, right.
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Lawson posted:Also, since there probably won't be another chance to post me fondling broody Turkey's breast: LEWD 
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So of the 10 chicks we got 8 were straight run unsexed and 2 are cream crested legbars which (I thought) could be sexed easily as chicks due to their color or something? This is what my wife explained to me at least. Well, one of the legbars is strutting around beating up everyone else, always gets on the highest perch, and has taken to making a pitiful asthmatic crowing noise every morning as soon as they all come out of the coop. It's not rooster loud yet, and not quite as distinctive as that, but it's getting close. What the hell Blanche I thought you were for sure a hen...
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Tom Nook is after my chickens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs-7y_Yd7-M
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My city allows me to keep up to 4 hens (no roosters) if I take a chicken-keeping class and get a permit. Luckily they're offering the class on Zoom now, so I signed up. At least one of my neighbors has chickens. I'm not sure which one because I've only lived here for about a year, but once or twice I've seen a couple of gorgeous chickens strolling around.
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wild drama llama posted:rats are so difficult to keep out of a hutch once they know there's an easy feed available that every single night, i gather the four quail into a cardboard box and bring them inside. it's become a beloved ritual of ours Thank you for all the good posts and good times Avs, don't know what the future holds but I'll remember you.
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Mine are a little more than a month old now. My husband promises their coop will be done this weekend. They're currently spending the days outside in a movable baby gate area and the nights in our shed inside a plastic kiddie pool surrounded by chicken wire. They were in my art studio, but our Norwegians can already fly and kept getting out despite a heavy cloth over the top of it and making GBS threads all over the place. At least if they get out in the shed its not as big of a deal if they poo poo everywhere. None of them went through an awkward phase yet. They just look like little chickens. Their feathers came in nice and even. The Norwegians being bad trying to get out of their temp outside pen  My almost 2 year old is a chicken whisperer. He can walk up to them and scoop them up without a problem. He's gentle too. 
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I'm slowly reading through the thread, but while I'm doing that, would any of y'all mind sharing which breeds you kept/keep and a little about them? As someone who is just beginning to learn about chickens, I'm kind of overwhelmed by all these different breeds.
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Here's a nice thing. While December 29th 2019 was the anniversary of Pip's rehoming, being a retired garden hen for the eighth year, today marks her 8.5 years of freedom. Now, if you add the time Pip spent in her "previous life" (which is 18 months from egg hatch to end of life in a battery cage) then today is Pip's TENTH BIRTHDAY! Who would have thought that the small, bald hen that was deathly afraid of everything and yet fought like a fury to be top hen would still be with us today (and top hen). Pip arrived with three other hens, sadly they are no longer with us, instead she has Molly (6 years old) and Bella and Daisy (almost 2 years with us) to boss around. Queen Pip the Glorious is an extraordinary hen and although she's not as fast as she used to be, the fire is still there bubbling underneath (Molly found that out by accident recently). Happy birthday Pip.  29th of December 2011 and this small (a mere 1.86kg), bald hen is brought home from British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT) rehoming day, fresh from her battery cage. Pip is an ISA Brown  5th February 2012. In just over a month, Pip has discovered all the good food we put out for the hens, gained weight and decided to grow all her missing feathers at once.  This is Pip with her best friend Piper, they became thick as thieves and Piper was number two hen from early days.  Today is Pip's 10th birthday and here she is around lunch time having probably the second of her three daily baths. Pip likes to keep clean.  Pip enjoying a birthday cake, hand made from suet, seeds, scrambled egg and chopped cherries (some of her favourite snacks). She looks great for a ten year old hen. Happy birthday Pip.
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Jun 30, 2020 00:51
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A Very Good Hen
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Oh my goodness, I remember when you adopted her!  happy birthday you old bird!!
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Jun 30, 2020 02:18
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Happy birthday Pip! She still looks great!
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What a good chicken!
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Happy birthday, Pip! What a great hen. 
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Pip pip hurray!
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Ten years, wow!
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Happy Birthday to her majesty Queen Pip. Long may she reign!
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