Comments on: Adjusting for Winter http://suburbansustainability.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/adjusting-for-winter/ Saving the World (and Your Wallet) One Household at a Time! Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:18:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Audrey http://suburbansustainability.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/adjusting-for-winter/#comment-103 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:41:46 +0000 http://suburbansustainability.com/?p=391#comment-103 Hello! I just found your blog while looking for ideas on building a homemade incubator for our chick eggs. Thanks for recording your journey! It seems we have similar things in common. We also purchase Bento boxes for our boys school lunches. We LOVE them! We are in the process of building an off-grid strawbale home and living more sustainably in the Saskatchewan prairies. I am encouraged when I read of others who are in transition as well – aren’t we all?!

I look forward to following your blog in the future.

You can find my blog at: http://lifeinevverybreath.blogspot.com/
And my husband’s blog at: http://riverstonestudios.blogspot.com/
Have a great day!

]]> By: suburbansustainability http://suburbansustainability.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/adjusting-for-winter/#comment-102 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:07:22 +0000 http://suburbansustainability.com/?p=391#comment-102 Oh, good luck with the quails! For pointers, since you work full-time and have kids, a good watering and feeding system really helps cut down on the daily time you have to invest in caring for your quails. We use those rabbit/guinea pig waterers with a catch tray beneath. I’ve seen some fancier setups, however, with a central area to re-fill water, so I may look into that. We use rabbit feeders we modified for the quails. Something you can re-fill easily, and that doesn’t have open access to the food. Quails are big food wasters. They fling bits of food about in search of that perfect bit (which, coincidentally, seems to look exactly like all the other bits). We covered the opening of our feeder with *ahem* an old, cut-up beer can, and then cut holes in it so they can stick their heads in. I’ll post about it in a couple days.

Recruit the kids for egg-gathering if they’re old enough. They’ll probably get a kick out of it, especially if they get one that’s still warm. Also, the more you handle them as babies, the more friendly they’ll be. Feel free to drop me a line if you have any specific questions!

]]> By: kelsey ruehl http://suburbansustainability.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/adjusting-for-winter/#comment-99 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:58:33 +0000 http://suburbansustainability.com/?p=391#comment-99 hi i am 26 as well. my husband i also work fulltime and we have three kids. we have a little urban farm. i am getting 25 live day old quails in a week and wondered if you had any pointers

]]> By: quickgardens http://suburbansustainability.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/adjusting-for-winter/#comment-96 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:31:54 +0000 http://suburbansustainability.com/?p=391#comment-96 Welcome back. It’s that time again. Good to see you are still planting. Look forward to your next post.

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