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Hi all, Looking for some advice from anyone with experience of Seramas? I have a tiny garden in an urban area (houses all around in very close proximity) and I have two hybrid hens. I'm absolutely in love with chicken keeping and I am desperately keen to have some more girls. I think I have...

Hi all, Hoping for some anecdotal advice from those more experienced than I. We've had our two hybrid gingernuts for almost a month now, and I can't believe how tame and lovely they are! They don't mind us being near them or sitting with them, they follow me around the garden, they let us pick...

Hi guys, Firstly a great thanks to the forum which has already helped me a lot with many answered questions in existing posts. You guys know your stuff! I have a real worry about one of my two girls. First a bit of background - they are both Gingernut Ranger hybrids, both about 21 weeks old...

Hi all, Really need some opinions and reassurance hopefully. We have two Gingernut Ranger hybrid hens which we've had a week. Today one of the girls laid her first ever egg. She laid it in the run as maybe she didn't realise to go to the nest box, and when I went in to poo pick this evening I...

Thanks for the reply. Predator wise Mr Fox is about the only thing I need to worry about, and to defend againt him I'm attaching a mesh "skirt" around the perimeter of the shed. The temperature is rarely an extreme of anything - south of the UK it' can get quite hot in summer and cold in winter...

Hi all, Hoping to get some advice with this. First time chicken keeper but have kept quails before now. I'm currently working on converting our 6 foot by 4 foot standard british garden shed into an integrated coop and run for two pekin bantams. I'm constructing a raised coop at the rear of...

I know that poo-balls are a big issue for some quail keepers and I want to avoid it myself. I'm on a mission to discover the best litter/bedding to use to avoid said balls forming. I (of course) will do a big clean once a week and then little tidy ups when necessary, but my girls are messy...

Hi all, I notice that every now and again some of my females will start making a noise louder than their normal chatter, they stretch themselves up tall and make this noise over and over for 10 seconds or so, then settle back down and carry on their business. It's like a loud cricket kind of...

Thanks DK Newbie, I do wonder if she boinked rather than got pecked. It's so difficult to know without setting up a CCTV camera lol. The roof of the pen is made of aviary grid wire, and it's only a foot high so I'm hoping they're not able to build up enough speed to really harm themselves...

Hi all, I have four japanese quails which I believe to all be females. They are approx 7 weeks old now. Three have light/golden feathers and the fourth one has darker brown feathers and is noticeably smaller than the others (not skinny, just smaller). They were all from the same hatched group...

Does anyone have any thoughts? Only I'm going to the pet shop tomorrow so I thought if anyone had any alternative bedding recommendations I could give them a try. Thanks :)

Hi all, We have four female Japanese quail in a rabbit hutch, we've had them 3 weeks now and I'm really enjoying them, they take mealworms from my hands and allow me to stroke them a little bit, although they are still quite nervous ladies. My question is about cleaning them out. Currently I...

Hi there, I'm completely new to Quail keeping, but this weekend I bought 4 female Japanese quails to be pets but also to give us eggs. They haven't come into lay yet, I believe they are only about 3 or 4 weeks old. They seem happy in the rabbit hutch I am using to keep them in, but my question...