sara | April 30, 2009
Yes you can handle quail chicks. The more that you handle them the tamer they will be if you want to have tame quail. You can start by getting the chick to eat chick crumbs from your hand. if you do try to hold the chicks you need to be careful about their legs. I [...]
sara | April 29, 2009
It was with a heavy heart that I got up on Monday morning to see to the pigs as I knew that my seven beautiful Saddleback gilts, that would have been excellent for breeding, were going.
I had been training the pigs to go into the trailer as pigs get nervous and easily stressed when faced [...]
sara | April 28, 2009
I was delighted to receive an email from Roz this morning letting me know that the khaki campbell duck eggs that she bought from me hatched out yesterday.
Hi Sara
Just wanted to let you know we have successfully hatched 5 of the ducklings, early yesterday morning (27th) in fact, we heard one of them moving about [...]
sara | April 27, 2009
I was delighted to receive a photograph of Carolyn’s four khaki campbell ducklings that hatched from the hatching duck eggs that I sent her from my gaggle of khaki campbell ducks and drake.
Attached a pic of the wee fellows outside the other day in their run. They love it out there in the sun.
Carolyn [...]
sara | April 26, 2009
Here are the nine day old japanese quail chicks in the brooder. The chicks are a couple of days old and they were moved to the brooder after they were 24 hours old.
They have a drinker with warm water and marbles in the drinker to prevent them getting their head immersed in the water. They [...]
sara | April 25, 2009
If you are keeping pigs outside then you will need secure fencing as pigs are very curious and will wander about easily.
Pig fencing could be in the form of:
1) Heavy duty post and rail fencing.
2) Post and rail fencing with electric fencing.
3) Post and rail fencing with sheep netting.
4) Electric fencing.
When deciding on the type [...]
sara | April 24, 2009
I am currently training my seven saddleback gilts to go into the trailer as they are not used to being loaded into a trailer. I have introduced them to the trailer by placing their food on the door and in the trailer so that it will entice them into the trailer. This is the third [...]
sara | April 23, 2009
I moved the day old quail chicks from the incubator after they had been hatched for 24 hours.
Quail chicks can survive without food and water in the incubator for at least 24 hours as they absorb the yolk sac just before they hatch which provides them with nutirents in the first 24 hours.
I put the [...]
sara | April 22, 2009
I am always staggered by the contacts made via this website and the social networking sites I use such as twitter and facebook. Yesterday I received a phone call on my answer phone from Orange Magazine who wanted to talk to me about my twitter activities. I phoned back this morning and had a chat [...]
sara | April 21, 2009
I have had 19 Japanese quail eggs in the incubator. Japanese quail eggs should take about 17 days to hatch out. Click here for incubator information for Japanese Quail.
Monday night was day 17 and when I went to bed I could see that a few of the quail eggs had begun to pip. By Tuesday [...]
