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I thought it was molting, but after months, now I'm convinced my quail has mites. I will examine them closer tomorrow. Their backs are bare as well as their tail end and chest. If so, what's the best way to treat them? Looks like my entire flock of 11 is affected (in my lower cage, the upper...

My coturnix quail are 8 days old. Quite feathered out (albeit not fully of course). Outside temperatures are 85-90°F during the day and about 68-70 at night. They have a fully enclosed area with a 50W heat lamp for night time. Is it too soon to move them out?

So I just hatched 38 coturnix quail. There is this one little guy, that's half the size of the others. They are 5 days old. The rest have grown and even starting to see feathers. This little guy hasn't grown at all. I've never seen it eat or drink and the others keep stepping on it. So I...

Help! My coturnix quail is 5 and a half weeks old. This morning I found that he cannot stand on one of his legs. I picked him up and that whole leg is entirely limp. I don't feel any broken bone sticking out or see any superficial injury. He has a band on his leg, but it's not too tight or too...

I have two quail with bumblefoot and no help treating them. They are sweet and quite tame, but not fond of me messing with their feet (quite understandable). So I used the top part of a long sock (cut off) to subdue my dears while treating them. It is more gentle than me squeezing them to hold...

I have a quail with a crooked neck. It's almost two weeks old, and it's becoming more obvious. I used to just think it was looking up at me, that's why it's side ways. Sometimes they do that, when they really look at you. It can move it's head fine. It behaves normal, eats and drinks like...

So my coturnix quail laid a white egg and I decided to incubate it. It's fertile and I get to see the details like I haven't been able to with the dark colored shells before. Pretty cool. This is what you see on day 5. I'm really excited and while I don't usually candle them until day 8...

I just think it's really cute. My daughter wanted to feed the quail. So I put some bird seeds in her hand... they kinda came by, checked it out and walked away... Next I put dried mealworms in her hand... lo-and-behold! They all come running! Haha!:jumpy

Talking about white eggs. I have jumbo brown coturnix quail. I started getting white eggs. I think it's the same hen, but don't know which one of the 7. First one was otherwise healthy looking. Just all white. Next day it was white AND kinda semi soft: meaning you could put a dent in it just...

My first loss. I had 5 chicks in the brooder. They are 1 week old tomorrow. They were all fine yesterday. Today during cleaning I found one just laying and breathing really hard. No apparent reason. They can't fly yet, so injury is not likely. The other 4 seem fine. Within 5 minutes the...

This morning I dispatched 7 of my roos. :hitMy first time and I'm crying inside for each of them. But it had to be done. I grew up on a farm and helped my mom dispatch and butcher anything from chicken to pigs... but never felt so heartbroken for them. I just hope that the time they lived...

This is the only coturnix quail I am kinda on the fence about. Right now I think it's a hen because it doesn't make the calling sounds the roos do. But there are only a very few speckles on the chest.

They are 5 1/2 Weeks old. :jumpy:ya

So Spring is full blown and temps today went up to 84°F. My quail are outside in an elevated cage. Part wire bottom, but with solid trays under to avoid draft and catch the droppings, and part sand boxes/pine shavings. The cage is on the North Side of my house and always in shade. Today I found...

I have a spare security cam (no sound) I've been using to observe my quail. I was curious to see if they go in their coop at night on their own. It's fun to watch: they play and run around, then the lights go off. They stop whatever they were doing and all head in their coop to settle in for...

I am currently feeding them Purina Startina Game Bird Crumbles. It's 30% protein. I keep them for meat and eggs. They are 3.5 weeks old now. Can I keep feeding this to my egg laying girls and just supplement ample greens/veggies and fruit to lower their protein intake? Or do I have to switch...

Finally completed the project and I couldn't be happier! I think the quail LOVE their new home.

My 2.5 weeks old quail seem restless at times (even at night for a brief time). They peck at the brooder walls, call out to each other, run around and try to fly out the top (which is covered with a screen). Is it normal or are they uncomfortable? I raised their heat lamps a few inches, but they...

At what age will male coturnix start displaying aggression toward other males? Mines are only 2 weeks old and I don't even know how many males vs females I have yet. I was just wondering and couldn't really find an answer online.