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So, my co-worker gave me these chickens as 3 week olds back in May or early June... pretty sure in May tho. Anyway she thought one was male and one female, siblings. I thought, eh no big deal, as I'm in it for the eggs anyway not necessarily the breeding-to-sell part of it. So, here it is, mid...

Day before hatch day and I came home from work to several eggs wiggling and pipping. One is pipping at the pointy end, I know that's not good. How long do I wait until intervention if I choose to do that?

So, I guess I have too much time on my hands while my first quail eggs are incubating, but I've been thinking... Wondering what kinds of (storebought) incubators people use for quail...I'm not savvy enough to make my own yet....and your success rates, and if you had it to do over again would you...

I'm just wondering if anyone uses leg bands for quail. If so what brand and size do you recommend? Pros/cons? How do you personally make divisions/ categories of your birds with the bands? Thanks in advance!

I have another week and a half or so before my little Cotournix babies hatch (if all goes as planned), and I've been reading people's posts on the chicken forums about watering options. I bought a small standard waterer with the quail tray on it for my brooder, but am curious about these nipple...

Hello! I finally figured out how to post here, thanks to the help pages. We have done chickens before and had a farmers market egg business, but had to move. Several years later now and we want to have chickens again, but I have a hankering for quail this time, as I really love the eggs. I've...