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Thank you very much for this advice. I do keep quail in a separate area to chickens so it would totally make sense that pheasants wouldn’t tolerate chickens aswell. I am a very much a novice with gamebirds so I appreciate all the feedback. Maybe in future I will build an aviary at the back of my...

I think they would allow them. It’s just the noise that they don’t like

Thank you! It did look a little smaller than other aviaries I have seen but I thought that was the case. I would be breeding bantams in that coop except council won’t let me 😭

Hi all, I had a strange but exciting thought yesterday about making the side pen in my chicken run into a pheasant aviary. It is 3 meters x 2 meters and is 2.5 meters tall. I would only keep three in there but I’m wondering if it would work. It would definitely need some patching up but I think...

Vic, Australia. I ended up burrying her which might not be the smartest decision but I can’t imagine it will do harm in the future

She’s gotten worse and we are going to put her down. Thank you for the help though guys

It’s just her neck that is bent and craning

Her gorgeous eyes are very open and she is keeping food down. I’ll give her some probiotics when we get home later

I had seen her excluding herself from the flock but I assumed she was going broody but apparently not

She’s not standing upright at all and she hasn’t pooped for a while. I have given her water and mushed up food and am hoping for the best

They get their usual grain and pellets as well as any kitchen scraps that we know are safe for chickens. We do have a bit of a rat problem but I don’t think it’s that. I have given her some child safe pain killers and plenty of water. I’ll see what I can do but she is extremely thin which makes...

I walked into my chicken coop today to find this scene. My very young RIR Buffy was laying twitching on the ground. Bright eyes and very aware of what is going on, she is unable to walk and very light. I can feel her keel and can almost touch my fingers together through her chest. She had been...

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I can agree with the pearls. I have had that happen before. As with the pharaoh, I have only ever had them as adults. I did have a hen hatch last year but a rat got her before she could moult.

Her back is much greyer but she doesn’t sit still for long. I had to put her in a tree to get a still photo. Apparently quail don’t like sitting in trees 😂