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The New ...
LELAND HAYES' FREE GAMEBIRD eZINE
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AS I SEE IT . . .
The new Quail Breeders’ Newsletter will be ready by
September 1 – on schedule! If you like quail, you will
want to get in on this new venture!
Here is a look at the contents:
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A Look Ahead
Tell Me About Bobwhites – Part II
Eastern Bobwhite
Florida Bobwhite
Texas Bobwhite
Cleaning and Disinfecting
Incubating Eggs
Questions and Answers
Dying chicks
Home made equipment
Water and Feeder Arrangements
The Elegant Quail
The Quail Mart
If you want to see the Sample Issue, go to my website to
read or download a copy:
http://www.lelandhayes.com/Intro.html
You can download the Issue and keep it on your computer
or you can print it out. It is in PDF format, which prints
beautifully. To subscribe (for only $12.00 for the year) you
can follow the Links in the sample issue. Or you can send
me a check for $12.00. Send to Leland Hayes, 32653 Lilac
Rd., Valley Center, CA 92082. Be sure to include your
email.
All New Subscribers will get a free three month Ad of 50
words or less. This Ad will also appear in the Gamebird
eZine for three months. If you have already subscribed
please get me your Ad via eMail for the September Issue.
leland@lelandhayes.com (no charge)
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Speaking of Ads … Beginning in September I will have
only paid Ads in the Gamebird eZine. Here is the
information about Ads for the “Gamebird Mart”.
This is the time of year when quail breeders should be
arranging to get their breeding stock and supplies for next
spring. It seems that every year the demand is much more
than the supply. Gamebirds are hard to come by! You can
place your Ad in the Gamebird Mart.
The charge for “Wanted” or “For Sale” Ads is $10.00 to
run for three (13) Issues (three months). The Ad should
not be over 50 words and should include complete contact
information.
Anyone with birds or supplies can place an Ad.
All Ads in the Gamebird Mart will also be placed free of
additional charge in the Quail Breeders’ Newsletter Quail
Mart for three months. All of these subscribers love birds
and many are interested in Quail.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR AD
Simply write out your Ad (not more than 50 words) (Over
50 words @.25 each additional.)
eMail me your Gamebird Mart Ad. I will acknowledge
getting it.
leland@lelandhayes.com
Send your $10.00 (check or money order) plus any extra
word charge to:
Dr. Leland Hayes
32653 Lilac Rd.
Valley Center, CA 92082
Phone: 760-742-1173
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Subject: Definitions Not in Dictionary
ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both
ends and is now growing in the middle.
BEAUTY PARLOR: A place where women curl up and
dye.
CHICKENS: The only animals you eat before they
are born and after they are dead.
I wish you enough!
Dr. Leland
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GUEST ARTICLE . . .
HOW RATS AND MICE EFFECT YOUR FOWL AND
YOUR POCKET BOOK?
By Glenda L Heywood
I am a firm believer that every one should take care
of their property and keep it clean of the dark hiding
places that rats and mice love to live and breed. All
the lumber piles, trash, garbage piles, old feed
sacks, brush, weeds and any dark place is a breeding
place for rats and mice. When is winter time and the
rats and mice have moved into secluded dark areas
where they can raise their family and be with in a
poultry building and make it their home.
SOME FACTS: a single rat eats from 20-40 lbs a feed a
year. Multiply this by 1000 and there is a lot of
waste to your feed bill. The rodents can increase the
feed bill by 2% yearly. They wreck feed conversion and
also jeopardize bird health and damage facilities.
Rodents spread disease to flocks by contaminating feed
and bird living areas with urine and droppings.
Rats and mice do not have bladders so they continuously
urinate and defecate on everything they contact. Rats
and mice are linked to poultry disease such as
salmonellosis, colibacillosis, coryza, pasterurellosis,
mycoplasmosis, hemhorragie enteritis, hymenoleplasis,
capilarlasis and ascaridiasis.
Rodents are often vectors that carry over disease organisms
from one flock to the next flock. Even if facilities are
cleansed and disinfected, if rodents are present, they
jeopardize sanitation efforts by keeping disease
active on a farm due to their ability to harbor
Pathogens.
NOTE since the upper incisor teeth of rodents continue
to grow throughout their life, mice and rats must chew
constantly to keep their teeth from becoming too long.
This means that insulation, wood, curtains, electrical
wiring and even metal objects can be damaged.
REPRODUCTION habits the most common rodents are
house mouse (mus musculus) and the Norway Rat (rattus
norwegicus) Rats mature in 4-6 months, while mice
mature in 6 weeks! Mice produce as many as 8 litters a
year with up to 6 young per litter while rats produce
3-7 litters a yr with as many as 18 young per litter.
Within a year, 42 mice and 16 rats can produce 4000
rodents. Mice nest within 10-30 ft of their food
source, but rats will travel miles in search of food.
Rodents are typically shy creatures that like dark
hiding places. They prefer to travel along walls and
stay away from open areas. Mice can crawl thru a
opening the size of a dime. Rats can contort their
bodies to squeeze thru openings the size of a quarter.
The Norway rat will burrow under foundations or
footings and can dig tunnels up to 48 inches deep with
several entrances. Mice can live without a source of
water, but rats need about 0.5 ozs to 1. ozs of water
daily. Rodents are nocturnal and prefer to feed at
night.
If there are no brush, trash or weeds within 3 ft area
around the buildings the rodents will not likely build
nests or burrow under the buildings. Bare ground and
short grass next to the buildings is best. Cleanup
spilled feed near feed bens and keep medication rooms
tidy and clutter free.
Keep unused equipment stored away from production
facilities. Keep dead birds disposal area clean and dispose
of all dead birds on a daily basis. If rodents do not find the
living quarters attractive they will not stay.
Keep all openings sealed and areas of entrance
plugged. Check daily for rodent activity. Waiting until
you see a rodent indicates there are at least 20
unseen.
Because the rodent hierarchal system is the
young and the old rats are forced away to scavenge for
food during the day. The seeing of daytime rodents
means the night time feeding is overrun.
You need to monitor the activity and put up bait
stations, or traps. Before removing the excess garbage
etc around a chicken house means to put out bait
stations first to kill off some of the rodents.
Because when you remove the manure and rodent nesting
areas it just scatters them to another area.
Because rodents hate new things it is important to
maintain bait stations 24-7. And constantly change bait
used. Do not use the same bait over and over.
Rotate the brands used. Also rodents are not attracted
to colors, and extra strong baits. They retain a bad
taste up to 6 months. They have a poor eye site also.
They also like fresh bait.
So use the prepared packages of bait and restock at least
every 5 day intervals. The anticoagulant baits must be
consumed over several days before enough anticoagulant is
built up in their system to cause death.
However, second generation anticoagulant baits can
effectively kill rodents with one dose. Since most rodents
must consume baits continuously. Keep Bait Stations
stocked with fresh bait and have adequate bait stations,
meaning several around the area. Thus supplying the whole
population.
The use of dark bait stations is important because rodents
like dark inviting areas. Also make sure to keep poisons
away from children, livestock, pets.
Making bait stations is easy. My father always used a
box that was wood and had a lid with 1x1 inch stripes
under neath to make a lid. At the bottom of the box
about 2 inches up he cut a hole about size of 50 cent
piece.
I used tomatoe boxes with lids and covered the
hand holds with duck tape good and put a hole 2 inches
up from the bottom of box about size of 50 cent piece
and put lid on good. I never had any chickens get the
lid off.
Kept these station in hay shed, feed shed,
under house in basement, and in all buildings. Any
area that mice and rats like to go.
PCV PIPE bait stations 1.5 diameter pipe for mice and
2.5- 4 inch diameter pipe for rat stations. Construct
a T with a cap for the bottom of the T. Make the base
of the T up to 8-12 inches long and both sides of the
top of the T at least 12-18 inches long. Turn it over
and attach permanently to side walls along footings.
Record what baits are used what days, keep rotating
bait kinds. Thus the rodents do not get resistant to
the kinds of bait. Switching at least every 2 months
in each bait station catches the 2nd generation of
rodents. I always changed monthly and kept them
stocked weekly.
Cutting ends off the little sacks and leaving them get it
out of the bag inside of the box, as a steal. They then
put the bait in pouches in their mouth and take it to the
nest. Keep your chickens and fowl away from disease by
killing the rodents.
http://www.gkpet.com
click on pet forum
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS…
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FEEDBACK . . .
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ADVERTISEMENTS . . .
Notice: Free Ads will continue through August 2007. On
September 1, a plan of paid advertisements will begin.
You can run your ad free through august, 2007.
This service is for the hobbyist only please.
PLEASE PUT YOUR CITY OR STATE IN THE AD
ALONG WITH THE CONTACT INFORMATION
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Wanted: I am looking for Nicobar Pigeons. If anyone has
them available, please email me John at:
Bird605@optonline.net
Long Island N.Y.
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For sale:
Fertile quail eggs, breeds available: Gamble quail,
California Valley quail, Northern bobwhite quail, limited
quantity of blue scale.
Chicks available for pick up only:
Quail: Gamble, Valley, Northern bobwhite, & limited
quantities Mexican Speckled
Pheasant: Red golden, Yellow, And Lady Amherst.
Contact for pricing and availability at
milo6114@yahoo.com
Industry, PA
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Wanted: Will be looking for adult breeder birds in the
following breeds of quail and partridge,
Mex. Speckle, Masked Bobs, CB Bluescale, Mountain,
Benson.
Philby, Barbary, French Redlegged, Hungarian, Bamboo
and Chukars.
Please email me or send prices to me at the below address
if you can help me in securing any of these birds, I would
like to get them from someone raising a lot of the breeds I
have listed so the postage and freight don't eat me up. But
will buy from single breed breeders.
Thanks for your help.
contact; Steve W. Klan Sr., PO BOX 277
MAYNARD, OHIO 43937
SKLAN47713@AOL.COM
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Jumbo Coturnix Quail:
we ship day old chicks & fertile eggs growers & young
breeders (next day express mail only) you are always
welcome to pick up at the farm please visit our website at
www.topisawcreekquailfarm.com 601-250-0248
Topisaw Creek Quail Farm
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For Sale: Geese, Ducks, Turkeys, Chickens, Partridges
GEESE:
1 pair breeding Pomeranian geese (35.00 pair)
5 adult breeding Sebastopol geese (65.00 ea or 250.00 for all)
4 Sebastopol goslings (50.00 each or 150.00 all)
1 young pair white Chinese (very friendly) (40.00 pr)
Ducks:
3 chocolate runner ducks (20.00 all)
trout and chocolate runner ducklings (6.00 ea)
trio (1 male, 2 female) black runner ducks (25.00 all)
pair of Khaki Campbells (15.00)
TURKEYS:
trio (1 tom, 2 hens) Red Bourbons (25.00 ea/ 100.00 for all 5)
2 red bourbon/wild eastern mix hens (15.00 ea/100.00 for all 5)
6 poults (8.00 ea/5.00 ea for all 6)
CHICKENS:
3 bantam sultans (30.00 all)
trio (1 roo, 2 hens) standard Turkens (30.00)
standard Turken chicks (4.00 ea)
1 pair Barbary Partridge (25.00)
1 breeding pair D'Uccle/Cochin (Bluish/Lavender in color) (20.00)
Please email me if you're interested in any of these birds. They are
PICK-UP
ONLY!!!! cherokee32@hotmail.com
Pat (Winchester, KY)
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For Sale: Flight Conditioned Bobwhite Quail Starting Oct. 1 Contact
Tracy
Keeton at Circle K Quail Farm Alabama 256-601-9561
Email: circlekquailfarm@yahoo.com
7/7
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Jumbo Pharaoh Quails ,fertile eggs $15/100 or day old $35/100 pick up
only,
Louisiana 337-667-6632
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Bantam Chickens for sale, Nankin rose and straight comb, Serama, Blk.
Sumantra, several other breeds, and a few young pr. of Large breed
Denizli
long crower chickens. www.stevenspets.com 803-428-3275
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For Sale :
Eggs and Chicks this spring, Valley, Gambel's, blue scale, bob white
and
Tenn. reds Thanks Jack
e-mail for more details jjquailfarm@yahoo.com
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For sale: Gambles Quail, Red, Yellow Golden, and Melanistic
Pheasants and
other fowl available. e-mail for details copelandy@msn.com or call
757-871-9326
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"Peafowl, Guinea fowl, Quail, Pheasants, Partridge, Waterfowl,
Turkeys,
Chickens and More. Shady Hollow Gamebirds - There's a gamebird
for
everyone!" www.ShadyHollowFarm.com
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How to contact me: email:
leland@lelandhayes.com
Leland B. Hayes, Ph.D.
P.O. Box 1682,
Valley Center, CA 92082
(760) 749-6829 FAX (760) 742-1173
URL http://www.lelandhayes.com
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