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shave one side then light the other side on fire, spear fleeing lice with tooth pick. Seriously though, there is louse powder that you may look into if DE doesn't work for you. I saw see it time to time on some of the poultry supply shops online.

My quail experiences have shown them to be finicky layers. It seems they need a lot of things to be able to lay. Most importantly is that they are mature enough to lay. Then there is the amount of light, the season and temp, the right feed, stress and environment, a personal trainer.....the list...

I must have been thinking of coturnix quail when I mentioned the 8-12 week part, sorry. Yeah, that sounds like a lot of noise and angry neighbors to have them 6 months. Luckily I can have them when we finally build in the country but that's a couple of years away. Thanks for your feed back...

Thanks for the reply and opinion Bob, point taken and it sounds like long term ownership of guineas would not work out. How about short term ownership if I wanted them for the dinner table? Somewhere around, oh I don't know, 8 to 12 weeks?

Hi, I raise chickens in the city right now so cannot keep extremely loud birds due to close neighbors but do have one rooster with a no crow collar and it's fine and good. I have been around guineas before but never hatched, brooded nor raised them. I have experience with coturnix quail as well...

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No, no blood in the poop. It seems to have cleared up though. I gave them a break from the FF for a few days then started feeding it again yesterday; no problems so maybe I had a bad batch of FF or something else was going on.

Hi, I've been feeding my quail fermented feed for 3 weeks now and they seem to be doing great on it until just recently. These are 4 and 6 week old birds. I am noticing more "runny" poop now though and the odor is getting pretty bad, whereas it wasn't so smelly the first two weeks of fermented...

Thank you; I will post it there.

I have a used TX7 on the way and will be incubating quail in it. My question is which turn ring should I get for my quail? I see that there is one that will do 48 and another that also over laps the quail egg size to do 72. Which do I get? I would of course like as many eggs as possible but can...

Hi, I've been feeding my quail fermented feed for 3 weeks now and they seem to be doing great on it until just recently. These are 4 and 6 week old birds. I am noticing more "runny" poop now though and the odor is getting pretty bad, whereas it wasn't so smelly the first two weeks of fermented...

Yea, we've been there and done that in the house a few times already I have had to use the under sink kitchen cabinet area in the past and may be able to again. Just wanted the option of using it outdoors in the garage area if possible. I like the idea of building a fridgabator as well as long...

Hi, I asked this many moons ago on here and did not get an answer so I'm bringing it up again. Does any company, whether it be a cabinet or stryofoam type incubator, make one that can function in the garage where temps may fluctuate 10 degrees or more? How about high temps in the 90's? Low temps...

I may be the exception here but I did not have the best experience. I made my order via Amazon as Turnbull sells through there and I waited weeks for my order to ship directly from Turnbull. Apparently the freezing temps were holding up things. When it did ship, USPS did not get it delivered on...

Okay, thank you for the information; that makes sense now for the reason that I cannot find any available eggs or young goslings. Sounds to me like I had best plan to get eggs to hatch this next spring then.