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Practical Junk
Приєднався 16 жов 2014
Take items you find and repurposing for practical needs. One persons junk is another’s treasure.
Quail aggression
A little insight on what to look for. A perspective on Healthy normal aggression. What to look out for and identify unhealthy aggressive birds. Steps I take to identify the difference. To help keep clam good natured quail.
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Homemade chick feeder
Переглядів 525 місяців тому
Collected a few things that would fit together. Stuff we throw away! Made the cheapest chick feeder from trash that works! Simply to make and free from trash we throw away.
Keep my water from freezing in my coops
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Simple way to keep my watering systems from freezing during cold weather. It does require management. You must keep lamps clean. Do this at your own risk. Improper setup can cause fire. Using bulbs that are to hot can cause fire. This does require some common sense
Stands for your chick water and feeder
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This is how I made the stands for my baby chick waterer and feeder. The building blocks lock together well and hold the feeder and waterer into place. They can not knock them off until they get big with an empty feeder or waterer. Sand a stain for easy poo clean up. This is how I did it. Been using them every hatch
Food waste experiment 2
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The results of this blew my mind. I honestly didn’t think you could cut food waste raising chicks! Learned alot during this experiment. Guess what I did it! I cut my food waste down 40-60 percent! Check out the video. More experiments coming soon.
My first coop I built. Still my favorite tractor.
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This is a combination of recycled materials. A kids double shot basketball goal for frame, some greenhouse pipe for the hoop, pallet wood for the box/doors and salvaged lawnmower parts for wheels/brackets. Only thing Purchased was stain and hardware.
Auto sifter
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Next level upgraded my auto sifter. Good for sifting mealworms, frass, sand and whatever you might need to sift in smaller scale.
Chick no waist feeder
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How I heavily modified a farm babies feeder for chicks. Created an insert to slow feed flow and cut down on wasteful chicks. Also made 2 options for insert. A heavy pvc custom crafted insert and a simple plastic insert made from a plastic container.
Chick food containment box
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3 stage boxes to help contain food for wasteful baby quail. Helps hold the food around your feeder. Keeping food contained in an area makes guests chicks eat the food dropped and stops them form kicking it all around your brooder. Great for the first 2-3 weeks. Until a larger feeder can be sure. Or in my case a custom pipe feeder to cut food waste.
How to Secure waterer with dog collar
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Dog collar and leash converted to secure waterer. I use these in my brooders. I also have one holding my pipe feeder into place.
Poultry watering systems pros and cons
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I’m going to discuss my experiences with different watering systems. Talk about pros and cons to help you pick a watering system. That will work with your poultry/ quail needs
A few tricks on how I set up my farm innovations incubator and how I expanded it.
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How I control humidity, how I use towels to make a easy clean up and they help stabilize humidity, and a over view of how I expanded this incubator to 2 levels and doubled my hatching capacity for quail.
Adult Quail food cost
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I wanted to know how much grain feed my birds ate and how much it cost to feed them. Eye opening video on cost. You should do it and see how efficient your feed system is.
How I introduce my quail to chicken watering nipples
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It takes about a day if tapping the chicken nipple to show them how to drink from it. I do this on a Saturday so I can come out every 2 hours to tap the nipple. If there are alot of quail in the pen. I would let them hydrate for about a hour with the basic waterer then the next day I will take it away permanently. By this time enough quail have figured it out and will show the others. You do ha...
How to make chicken nipple waterer for quail
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How to make chicken nipple waterer for quail
Chicken coop overhaul to quail coop full video
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Chicken coop overhaul to quail coop full video
Make retaining clip from pvc to hold my feeder.
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Make retaining clip from pvc to hold my feeder.
This is awesome! I use a big open bin but they definitely kick it out all the time which is super annoying. I’ll give this a try. Thank you for giving your quails a good life! No matter if they’re being used for meat, eggs, companionship, all 3, or something else, it’s important they’re treated well and given the right kind of setup with the things they need to thrive.
@@christiansaravia7865 I appreciate it. I hope this works well for you. If not well I hope you find better way. Then let me know. Has been very effective for me and makes egg collection much easier.
Thank you for taking care of your ladies
Thank you. I try my best. A lot of mistakes have been made along the way but I try.
Nice! I thought about mixing everything together as well. I just started my “quail adventure” with 250 newbies. They are a week old now and I’ve only lost 6 which I feel like is a good ratio so far. I thought about a dust bath (sand) and my wife said “yeah but mites and other bugs” so I said “I think DE would handle that” and this video is where I landed. I didn’t think of ash even though we use it in our gardens and under rabbit pens along with DE. So now I’m thinking of ALL the possibilities with mixing like this and basically making a huge litter box under my rabbits and quail and just scooping it out like a litter box lol my view on life has been changed forever!! 😂 great video, thank you!
Really hope it helps.The main thing is keeping it dry. That’s why I use buckets plus is contains the substrate making it last longer and turns into a great egg collection area. They love laying eggs in them. I actually have been wanting to try your exact idea under my larger brooder and like you said just scoop it out like cat litter. I’ve thought about adding fine pine shavings/saw dust to the mix as well. Only concern I’ve had is how wet and how much poo a full brooder of quail can produce. That’s on my to do lists of experiments. Just remember the diatom fit much is really dust and can be bad for your birds. I don’t use it autumn through winter. I have 3 year old birds with no bad health effects but again a little goes a long ways so use it sparing. I only add full scoops when remixing a new batch. I’m happy the video is helpful. I’m currently doing a series called (chick food waste experiment). I’m about to do my final video using all that I’ve learned and tried. Cut chick food waste 60 percent if not more down to a minimal. Game changer on saving food cost for chicks. Worth it if you hatch a lot. I’m always trying creative ideas to change the many bad habits/common beliefs people have raising quail. Trying to find better ways.
My quail had a prolapse. I got the egg out and she prolapsed immediately with a second egg. Now she's delivering a third!!
I actual just had one of my adults prolapse I removed her a few days. She had a few eggs with no issues and she a fine now. I did notice a double yolk xl egg which can cause this because the eggs just to big. If she is laying over sized eggs this can continue. Is she is laying normal sized eggs and keep prolapsing. This is a serious concern. Other birds could peck at it and causing injury. Prolapse if not addressed could get an infection. If this continues it will result in the bird passing. I would cull only if it is a continuous issue only because I don’t want the animal to suffer from infection or injury both can result in the bird passing inhumanly. If the egg ruptures inside it can cause infection. I rarely have these issues. I encounter prolapse while handling or moving them due to stress. That’s exactly what happen in the video. She tensed up and prolapsed while handling. No one wants to cull our birds but I never want them to suffer. I’m sorry this is a continuous issues. How old is your female? Did she just start laying for the first time or did she just start laying this season?
i need a machine that removes seeds from weed! now they do make such machines, but they require you to basically break up all the weed first! so i guess i need 2 machines! 1 that GENTLY breaks the buds up (cant be damaging the seeds) despite them being stacked with trichomes and then empties it in to something that removes the seeds from the plant materials. im VERY open to suggestions (im sure the rest of the global "community" would like to see what can be done too).
I don’t really specialize in doing that. Maybe look up some type of commercial grinder and try to replicate it. Then maybe a machine similar to this one could sift everything out for you into different stages.
@@practicaljunk836 closest i can think of is the things they use for the early part of wool processing (sort of paddles with nails through them). i dont know that there really is a commercial grinder, most people LIKE buds.
Wish I could help you. I’m not familiar with that industry. Takes a lot of research trial and error to develop a good system that works. I failed a few times trying different ideas before I completed this project.
@@practicaljunk836 ua-cam.com/video/IYPghEkEags/v-deo.html theres also a way to make one using a shop vac or other vacuum to pull the air instead of pushing. you are working almost parallel to this machine. i think if you used some of that sticky foam tape around the bottom of the sifters as a gasket it would fit tighter and increase efficiency in your design AND keep the dust down. until legalization got more common there was VERY little use for such a machine which is why theres not many good consumer design options. considering the explosive growth of the cannabis industry theres actually a market for such a thing. i appreciate a creative mind, and you sir have delivered. best of luck.
I made an insert for the bucket with a funnel in the center of the insert that fits inside the top lip of the lid. Keeps dust contained. Basically a wood circle cut out to fit perfect. Then wrapped it with tape to secure it into place snug. Works well
I had birds where the tissue was also torn by other birds pecking. Is that too late to rescue ?
I’m not sure why but I’ve responded 3 times to your comment. It’s not staying. Yes extensive damage to tissue by other birds can lead to infection or improper healing causing future egg laying issues. You can try but it is humane to cull at this point. I’m sorry for a seemingly late response I do hope your girl made it.
Hiya…. I really like this concept, my daughter and I live 100% offgrid, so reliant on solar for power….we used hot water bottles to keep our quails warm, but I’m thinking of pinching your idea of insulation between the walls…. are you still using a heat lamp?
Insulate away! Please do. Yes we still use heat lamps.
You should 100% patent this. I only have 7 grown and 3 babies and these are the most wasteful of Gods creatures.
Alot of thought went into this. I published it here so there is proof of the idea. I almost didn’t when I realized how effective it is. The point of me doing this is to help people. So it would defeat the purpose of doing the work to help others if I didn’t put it on here. I’ve been thinking of creating an actual feeder for chicks that will work properly. Also making a line of inserts for common feeders. Looking into getting a 3D PRINTER but it will be a learning curve. Future projects and ideas
What a great idea. Can't wait to see your next video.
Thank you. I’m gonna see if I can make one from containers we throw away. Was trying to match containers to lids and see what would configure good together.
Thank you for showing your process. Im trying to get everything going and am not handy at all, so seeing your learning curve helps me feel more confident.
Trying new stuff doesn’t always work but seeing why things don’t work. Can give you even better ideas. Failure is not failure if it shows you something greater.
Thank you kindly!
What kind watering system are you trying to setup?
Hi, great video! Would you please provide a link for the blue piping with the quick clips you recommended? Thank you... much appreciated😊
Thank you I’m happy you enjoyed. I apologize for the late response I’m currently doing a chick food waist experiment. So I’m doing a lot of designing and mini projects. Videos coming soon. lol . To answer your question There are a couple different sizes. You need to find out the size of the connection for the cups you are using. Here is a link to the easy set up water line. a.co/d/3viW2WZ
New quail keeper here... are there table scraps they *shouldn't* have? I only have 6 birds, but would love to make sure the little freeloaders are happy
To my understanding, you don’t want to feed them any citrus, no avocado, and keep them away from tomato plants. They can eat tomatoes do not feed them the vine. Basically no nightshade family. I choose not to feed them anything that’s been cooked in oil or processed it’s really not healthy for us so I don’t feed it to them. I rinse everything well.
Great video. I luv how you just kept trouble shooting it till you came up with a solution.
I appreciate it. I’m happy you enjoyed it. It was a 2 week long event! I shortened a lot of it. So it wouldn’t be like 30 clips. A lot more fails then shown 🤣🤣🤣
Thank you so much!! Now i have a weekend project
Take your time and make sure whatever water container you get will fit and isn’t to large or to small. I like the locking seal lids. Not the pop on tops. Less debris gets around the edges into the water
Thank you so much! Would plumbers tape work? Also, my birds are about 12 weeks how do I train them to use this? Will they figure it out on their own? Im off to binge the rest of your vids :)
Thank you for watching. Plumbers tape would work if you were screwing the nipples into the T fittings. But for flush mounting like I’m doing I’m the video. Plumbers puddy is what you want to use. They will figure out how to use them. I would change it over on a Saturday and go out every couple hours and tap the nipples and show them how to drink out of them.
Just uploaded a short video. On how to teach them to drink from chicken nipples. I hope it helps
Thanks you.❤❤
You're welcome 😊
love the idea of using this system in the brooders. It is so gross changing the water from a brooder. This will keep the water clean and the chicks healthy. Thanks!
Just remember 2 weeks old. I have the chick waterers for the first 2 weeks. I raise the water a half inch when they are 3 days old. Then continue to raise as they grow. 2 weeks old they get the chicken nipples. I’m happy this will help you. Watch my watering system for baby quail for when they are first hatched.
Great overhaul. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you. It was a evolving extensive build. I hope it inspires others.