The quails are all full grown and poppin out eggs already! Crazy that they can turnaround in 6 weeks! I think by the end of summer we will have an endless supply of meat from them. A few more breeding groups and a few more hatches and we are really gonna be cookin! We decided to move the quails and baby chicks out of the garage and into the old shop. Actually it was an old milking parlour and then it became the old chicken coop, that became an old shop that then became the parts warehouse, that is now the new Quail coop! Ha! checkout the before and after pictures.
I built the New Coop where the old, old coop used to be apparently. Mom came up and said "Oh! your building where the old coop, that was old when I was a kid, was!" Now Sharon is moving the 20 teenagers into the new Chicken house. They'll be laying in the 60 year old nest box from the old chicken coop/parlour/warehouse/shop/quail coop thats now in the new coop!
I did a bunch of burning around the edges of the cut flower field. We made a big pile of slash and burnt it, then proceeded down the ditch line to burn the grass away. It seemed a little dangerous when the wind whipped up and made it travel down the ditch, but just like Ole Uncle D said, it didn't go anywhere and just cleaned the ditch. That was kind of exciting!
Sharon has her poultry collections now. The old girls, the teenagers, the new girls and the quails. We are at 50 chickens, 24 quail. We have another 10+ chickens on the way and 6 heritage turkeys. I never really ask for the actual number anymore because when they show up theres always more! I feel like maybe I should add a chicken ticker to the blog so we can update as we grow!!
One last thing we changed the old pumphouse into the egg washing station and refrigerator. We will probably have a little money box and eggs in the fridge for whoever wants fresh eggs!
Enjoy the pics. This is my last post for awhile since I am on a job for a while, but Sharon is going to keep us all up to date as she gets closer to market time. That girl is my hero with the 2 boys and a boomin chicken house she has got her hands full!!!
Peace and love to all of you's out there! I hope we get to travel thru time together soon!
Love,
The Rowland's
The Rowland's
2 comments:
Looking real good folks!
Very Idyllic. C.
We had hard boiled quail eggs on our tossed green salad tonight. Fun to help Sharon load up the teenagers for their move to the new digs. She is a very hard and energetic worker. Proud of her.
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