Recent content by stephstuckman

Still only the two birds, no other symptoms

I bet it's my feeder. It's a rabbit feeder with 1/2" hardware cloth kinda over the opening so they don't flip out the food all over. It's probably from pecking through the wire. I recently got a different brand of food that is more powdery and doesn't move through the feeder like the...

Any other suggestions on what it could be. I'm having trouble finding anything

If it is contagious it could have only came from wild birds. That's why I'm trying to figure out if it's a problem. I have no other chickens or anything. I have not gotten any more quail either. Just the original batch I hatched and the quail I have hatched from those. No new birds other...

They are acting normal. The white hen is a year old. She was pecked pretty good by a rooster about a month ago. I thought that's what it was from. Now the young 6 week old rooster I added with them has the same thing happening. It could be pecked, not sure. All I have are 15 coturnix. No...

My coturnix are outside year round. It can get -15 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter and 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer. I put lights on them in the winter and they lay through winter, at least half of them depending on the temp. A couple even laid eggs in the -15 F temps. Only about...

I found that puppy piddle pads work awesome the first week. More absorbent than paper towels and easier to change. I just get the large ones so it only takes one to line the bottom on the brooder. I discovered using them by accident when I ran out of paper towels and it was all I had to use (...

I cut a piece of 1/2" hardware cloth to fit between the two pieces of the base of the feeder. It helps a lot with waste. I also found if I continue to grind their food until they are 3 weeks or so they don't through so much out either.

Beautiful! I really hope to get a pair this spring/summer. Do you have a photo of the entire pen?

We had a grouse in the mountains here that would run at your atv tires and attack them. You had to drive super slow to get by it with out running it over. it was in the same spot for two years then vanished. Funny little thing, my dad even caught it and gently tossed it off the trail once...

I am in southwestern colorado.

I do a lot of crafts with feathers. I have a macaw and an Amazon parrot along with my coturnix quail that I use their molted feathers for various crafts. I wash them with dish soap to clean them. I had some chukar feathers but can't find them. I would love to buy some bulk chukar and pheasant...

Mine do awesome on 22% feed. The only higher protein food around here I can get is medicated.