Life is like a rollercoaster!

Up and Down. Up and Down!

Following on from the Euphoria of the visit to Liverpool last Monday and the arrival of 7 new quail chicks, we approached the top of the coaster and prepared for a huge fall. In the period of 48 hours we went from 7 quail chicks to one. It was disastorous. The poor little quail chicks were dying 1 by 1, 6/7 hatched out with faulty legs and one with a crooked neck, they were so weak and could not walk. It's all in the job descritption of a small holder. It was a shame that their lives were so short, but the surviving chick is a Jumbo quail, let's hope it is a girl!

It is time for me to start building up my quail colony again and I am about to invest in a £250 new 'Quail Quarters' for them. It has 3 tiers which will be seperated into: Meat Birds, Egg Birds, Birds for Sale. I am going to stick with the current housing for a few more weeks but then will upgrade completly. I am going to pick up 10 (don't tell the parents) Japanese quail this Sunday from a chap in Solihull, they obviously know I am getting more quail but I don't think they realise how many. At £1 a piece I am hoping to get 2 males and 8 females in their new housing there will be plenty of room for them. I was going to get more Italians for layers but these are so cheap that it is not really viable to hatch a flock of Italians for myself. These will do! I am currently designing some egg labels for the quail egg cartons which I hope will be finished very soon.

All weekend I was meaning to use some of the leeks from the allotment up and make a leek soup, unfortunately I kept putting it off and in the end I was making leek soup at 11pm last night, filling the house with such strange smells probably didn't go down to well with those sleeping above.

I have some photos that I have been meaning to upload but I am having a bit of a problem with the computer connection lead on the new computer I had for Christmas.

Anyway, nice speaking,

Martin