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Fair warning: My almost out of eggs isn't likely your almost out of eggs. However, I don't have a single duck nor chicken egg in the fridge. With these damn polar bears stirring up a vortex, my yardbirds are pretty much laying frozen eggs. Every single one I bring in is either rock solid or cracked. Those go straight to the dogs.

My air hole on the quail drinker froze shut a couple days ago meaning the drinker-nipples wouldn't work. I sorted that out, but the heater bulb burned out that night. They went almost 2 days with presumably only a 30 minute period with liquid water. No eggs for 2 days. Only 1 egg yesterday. I gave them a bag of popcorn and a large snowball to make up for it.

I'm sitting on maybe 20 quail eggs in the fridge. It's turning into The Road over here. I blame the jews.

Fair warning: *My* almost out of eggs isn't likely *your* almost out of eggs. However, I don't have a single duck nor chicken egg in the fridge. With these damn polar bears stirring up a vortex, my yardbirds are pretty much laying frozen eggs. Every single one I bring in is either rock solid or cracked. Those go straight to the dogs. My air hole on the quail drinker froze shut a couple days ago meaning the drinker-nipples wouldn't work. I sorted that out, but the heater bulb burned out that night. They went almost 2 days with presumably only a 30 minute period with liquid water. No eggs for 2 days. Only 1 egg yesterday. I gave them a bag of popcorn and a large snowball to make up for it. I'm sitting on *maybe* 20 quail eggs in the fridge. It's turning into The Road over here. I blame the jews.

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I luv quail

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He has a little dick.

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The law of averages says you're probably right. You should see him drive.

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U ever had sex wit a quail next ti dah fire place during dah pale moon light?

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Yeah this water freezing shit is hard on animals, I dont know what people do up north who are used to this.

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The ducks get water for a brief period every morning, then they just eat snow. I have a light bulb inside a cookie tin to keep a gallon drinker thawed for the quail. It's just that when shit goes wrong, it does it all together.

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20 quail eggs is the equivalent of what, like 4 chicken eggs?

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Hey, fucker! What're you tryin' to say?

Yeah, maybe 5 or 6 at best.
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You’re way closer to running out of eggs than you’re letting on!

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I got 1 frozen, cracked quail egg tonight. We're pretty much fucked.

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Oh and sorry about your weather it really sucks. It has been an interesting year for sure. Glad everyone is still alive!

Could you do a tea light and clay pot heater for them when you have lamps go out?

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I only have a 25w bulb in a cookie tin with a water jug sitting on it. It just burned out; my power isn't out or anything. I suppose a candle and pot would actually work in this situation.

There was a post last night about heating your home with a tea candle under a pot. A car or tent, yes. Not your house though. It'd take 40-50 tea candles to equal a 1500w space heater. People are nuts.

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Ya that's where I got the idea for your birds. It would perhaps keep the water from freezing if it was right next to it. Definitely a last choice option until you can get another bulb.

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I'd set the jug right on it. Plastic won't burn if there's water inside. The nipples are a couple inches off the bottom, so even a leaky one can't drain the jug. I might switch out the 25w for a 40w. They all want to stand on the tin when I take the jug to fill it.

As long as the quail get water once a day, they'll be fine. I just don't like carrying some out there every day. A little bit of effort allows for a season of laziness lol.

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If you sleep with the quail you can share body heat.

It works for the Eskimos.

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The birds themselves don't mind the cold.

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Might be a few more weeks of this cold.

Maybe another base board heater or something?

An expensive month, but just the one.

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All my birds are outdoors. For real, the quail and ducks don't really mind the cold. My 3 chickens are miserable, but fuck them. They don't get any heat.

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Why do you give the dogs the frozen eggs?

Believe it or not I'm hatching eggs that have been frozen. Some are at two weeks and the others are almost a week. Candling indicates they're fine. I was doing it as an experiment, but I just searched and found someone else who did the same, except her temperatures were -30* when her eggs froze. Mine were at 18* and 22*.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/frozen-eggs-hatching.130155/

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Most my frozen eggs are frozen, frozen. Split shells. Those go to the dogs. I just don't really want to eat an egg of the ground with ooze coming out as it thaws lol.

Women freeze their eggs, so as long as the shell was ok, I believe they'd possibly hatch. Worst case scenario, you get a bunch of Downs syndrome ducks lol.

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Lol downs ducks.

I didn't realize they were all cracked. Wonder why it's cracking them!

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Pretty sure Downs ducks is just the standard for pekins, anyway. Mine seems dumber than the campbells. Freezing to the ground doesn't help. Subzero temps crack eggs, I guess.