I'm here to help those with small urban homes and small spaces to raise animals and grow crops to produce their own quality food, while striving to be as regenerative as possible. I want to help others see how easy it is and what options are out there for small urban properties, and help them get to where they want to be.
Its so easy, I broke every rule and mine are doing great. The scarry part is incubating cause you cant see whats happening. And people say dont't help. More than 50% of my chicks were delivered due to shrink wrapping. Glad I didn't follow that advise!
The weasel family should be classed as super predators there's nothing that can take them on really pound for pound they are relentless in the persute after there prey and they will also take orther predators out of the game fishers have been known to kill bob cats and linxes the Fisher is a member of the weasel family by the way that's a stoat not a weasel thanks for sharing brilliant video thanks
Damn this is an old vid, so not expecting a response, but if you do see this, do you think unscented clumping kitty litter would work well as a substrate and be safe?? My thought was it would be easy to clean up daily, unscented shouldn’t bother the birds respiratory system and bec it’s similar in texture to sand/dirt they’d be able to dust bathe with no issues
I have some quail hens and one got spooked she jumped up and hit the bars on top and hit her head she started breading from the mouth I separated her from the flock for a few days so they can hurt themselves, But She is a very big bird and that is why I feel she was the only one that got hurt. Otherwise, I agree it really could be a myth about them breaking their necks unless it has to do with the jumbos. I started working with her and taming her down and she has stopped hitting her head on the top and actually comes up to me when I open her cage, she is my bird that lays dark green eggs like an olive egger in chickens. (But the egg is blue inside in color. when my birds are in a pecky mood at each other I dim the lights and pet them, and they stop pecking each other but that is when it is mild aggression like over food or water, when they are this way. But I have had to separate a bird once because when I bought her from a back yard breeder the quail had a broken toe when I got her. I kept her alone but near other quail and she made a recovery and was able to put with another bird after she healed. But I'm still new to quail.
No , silver labradors are not recognized in any purebred pedigree association . No pedigree Labrador is that color , only scam ( mutts ) sold for purebred .
The yellow and brown lab example is not the best as those are the same breed of dogs , while the different varieties of Coturnix can be different breeds too , Japanese Coturnix is the species , then there are several breeds and colors .
Not even gonna watch the video. NEITHER! Any sort of CUP is a bad idea. NO matter what brand or concept, they all have the same problem, they get nasty dirty and you have to keep cleaning them. not to mention that in winter time the freeze. Forget all that and just use horizontal nipples.
1. about the egg production what the lady´s said is true IF she talk about wild bird vs corturnix. the wild types like bobtail ect dos NOT lay egg´s like the corturnix. there are not only 2 types of quail in the world. theres min 123 types of quail. 2. if you have an axiety for the birds to break its neek, then make a flying aviary or a flying pen, its not that difficult. its like making a hen pen with rounded roof instet of flat roof. you can acturrely do this with the cages to, making the rooff rounded. 3. the square food rule is to animal welfare, so that the quail has enougf space....the square food is a chiken rule....NOT a quail rule, becaurse they are smaller they dont need a square food, its all about the size of bird canculation you wout guess,, if a adult chicken needs 1 square food, a qual that is 3 times smaller, needs 3 times LESS space. basic logic canculation. and then you say, "but chiken´s dont fly", this is not true. to that you need to think about that chikens is accturely JUNGLE birds, that foregde alot and sleep up in trees at night, and move ALOT, quail is NOT forger in the same big scale as a jungle bird, they are ground living, and keep to small areas in the wild, they are not sleeping in trees, but under fallen trees, in bushes, and under tall grass, they dont move alot but keep to a smallere arear in nature, where the chiken as a jungle bird is moving all day for alot of miles pr day in a pretty big areer. you can NOT compare thise to bird with ethother do to living conditions are so diffrent. they are to very diffrent animal, with very diffrent types of living. that is another MYTH that out there, chiken and quail can NOT be compared to ethouther at all.
I purchase my feed from a local feed mill where it is ground a few times a week. My birds do well. I will also bake and grind egg shells every so often for added calcium in their diet.
I tried this solution (white one) and I do not recommend it. The hens and ducks lifted the cups so often that the water was constantly flowing and spilling into the coop. Horrible mess.
@@UrbanAviarybut would that prevent the quails from getting bumble foot? Someone on fb used pvc coated hardware fabric and her quails still got bumble foot. Now I’m worried.
It's the best thing I know of to prevent it, but there's no guarantee. Don't get overly worried about everything that could go wrong and just pull the trigger. You'll learn along the way. Just do the best you know to do. There's always going to be someone with an anecdote to confirm your fears. Just move forward and let experience be your teacher.
@@UrbanAviarywhat other things did you do to prevent bumble foot besides the pvc coated hardware fabric? I would like to know so that I could do the same :)
I need to know if there is an adjustment on filling the clear cups. I have similar but are red but they will fill full and then run all over. Suggestions please.
I don't recommend the white one I used those cups for long period of time. But it gives me more headache and it's hard to manage and maintain. I will surely recommend the red one although they both same automatic drinker but it will give you less headache and easy to maintain. I used red one for couples of years and I will stick to it😊
I can tell it's hot where you are. This was informative. I have 6 chicks I hatched out recently. 2 tuxedos but one is brown and one black. One all yellow but with a single black dot on its head. And three that I've been calling wild types because they're all varying shades of brown and black. They're a week old today and just starting to get their feathers.
thank you, im planning on only getting maybe like 3 baby chicks for now and i want to also spend time with them in my room anyway so im assuming this would be enough space for them as babies and then as they grow i'll be giving them more space of course
I was planning on doing this but keeping the water container above the cage system so I could swap out the pump when it got warmer so that I didn’t need to use it to save power. I also wanted to make the pump in line also.
