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I’ve used this for baby quails before?? It’s very bizarre

I use bark! With some Nesting material for bedding. Maybe that’s the issue?

I don’t think so. The other side of the cage is nice and cool without the lamp touching it and the poor little fella keeps moving to go under the lamp. I assume it’s something internally. It’s really struggling

hi, my baby quails hatched 10 days ago and have been under a heat lamp in a large cage since feeding off chicken crumb with plenty of water. This morning it was panting on its side and can hardly move. Could the recent boiling weather be anything to do with it? It can hardly move and struggles...

Thanks :)

hey there, one of my females has been very broody for a month and finally yesterday 3 chicks were hatched. I separated the mother and chicks from the other quails immediately but I just wanted opinions on whether leaving the chicks with the mother is a safe thing to do? She is constntly sitting...

that's really helpful, thank you. He is now eating and drinking but only one of his eyes are opening. Surprisingly I put 2 in yesterday and only one of them was attacked

So I've been raising quail for the past couple of months and one of my new ones had been in the brooder for 5 weeks and therefore I put him in the avery. When I woke up in the morning, his head was all red at the top with his feathers gone and he was bleeding. 1. How do I help heal it? and 2...

hey there, I am raising baby chicks and one of them has splayed feet. I have taped the two legs up but she is still struggling to stand up and has to wriggle eveywhere, is this expected? Also, how long should I keep the tape on? Thank you

I had 3 chickens at 3 months old and 2 of them went missing on Saturday morning. There were a few feathers in our garden but nothing that shows any sign of a fox attack. My question is do they always leave some kind of blood trail or feather trail/pile when they're attacked/killed by a predator...

they're free range. Good news, we've found one but she's absolutely motionless and traumatised when normally she's all energetic and loud :( hopefully the other 2 will turn up

Been looking for an hour and no sign :( where would they be hiding? bushes or up high in trees?

hello, I have 3 chickens that stay in their coop overnight and I let them out first thing every morning. This morning however at about 8 am, the chickens went missing and all I saw from them was feathers from one of them. I then saw a fox run away from my garden. I haven't seen any of them...