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Hey all, it’s been a bit! I’ve noticed over the last few weeks our quail have started looking kind of scruffy. It started with some missing feathers on one or two of their flanks. I thought maybe it was too many treats, so I’ve cut back on those, and now they look worse? I was giving them a...

One of our gals has bald spots under her wings, but the skin isn’t irritated at all. I dusted her with DE and put DE in the dust bath for all of them with their regular dust to be safe, and isolated her in the office for a couple days to see if she’d get any pin feathers in the area but it...

Well, lost our first quail to a rat. I foolishly wasn’t taking their food out at night, and it figured out how to get in the smaller cage that the “rejected” hen lived in. I suspect it had been eating her food for a while actually as there’s no way in retrospect she could have been eating so...

Hey all! The girls (and boy) have finally for the most part settled in (I had to break up one more inexplicable altercation but was able to successfully reintegrate the quail in question), and I managed to make a thrown-together “sidecar” pen for the lone female that they always seem to pick on...

Hey all! So I’ve got one for-sure hen in the hospital pen, and the male I am fairly certain is responsible in a cage by himself awaiting final judgement. However, yesterday I pulled another bird as it was chasing around/harassing one of it’s fellows, and when I vent-checked it I saw foam...

Hey all! One of my female quail, who are turning 6 weeks this week, has had a droopy wing for the past week. I assumed she hurt it on something and left her alone as I didn't want to pull her from the pen and stress her out more, but it was still droopy today so I gave her a more thorough...

Woo hoo! Not gonna lie, I almost missed this guy due to the deep bedding. When I’m feeling less crappy (allergies are the worst) I’m gonna go out and make sure I didn’t miss anymore - but I turn their litter over daily and I’m pretty confident this is their first one.

It’s 4AM, and our ridiculous male (no idea which one) won’t stop CROWING. I’m about to go out in my PJs and throw them into a bin for now in the house so that their ridiculousness doesn’t wake the neighbors. We were trying to wait so that they were a bit bigger before processing them, but this...

In spite of doing a full bedding change every day, and taking the quail out of the brooder & hosing the whole thing down every 2-3 days, I think I’ve got a case of coccidiosis in my two week old quail. One of them is droopy winged, lethargic, won’t eat (empty crop) & barely drank. I moved him...

I just finished hatching a batch of coturnix quail. At the moment their brooder is in my office, which happens to also be the room my parrots reside in (Orange Wing Amazon, cockatiel). Should I move them? I sort of assumed since they were hatched and therefore not exposed to anything it was fine...

I thought I had this figured out, but I was very wrong! I put the brooder together today, and I was under the impression quail need a lid on the brooder. I took a large Rubbermaid bin I had, cut a viewing/vent window and covered it in hardware cloth. Next (and I thought I was being clever!) I...

Hey! I have a few eggs I’m pretty sure are just late quitters but they were close enough looking to the others that I wanted a second opinion! I had a few good looking eggs too that didn’t seem to be moving inside when I candled them :( I’m hoping I just didn’t catch it. I set 22 eggs on the...

Just set up the incubator and I bought the Govee Bluetooth therm/hygrometer as the article by TwoCrows suggested! I am gonna give it a couple more hours (I have not added water) but the incubator is reading at 99.5, 26%, but the Govee says 97.0 & 18. Seems like an awfully big difference...

Looking at building a PVC/Hardware cloth tractor for approximately 10 coturnix quail. I attached a humorously terrible drawing, but the footprint would be 3ftx4ft, and would have a domed roof that I would cover during inclement weather, which in Seattle is rough My main question is - is 5.5ft...

Hey all! I joined this forum almost ten years ago when I lived in south Louisiana! I had a much larger yard then, and kept chickens and eventually ducks! Almost ten years later, I'm all the way up in Seattle, and we just purchased our first home - a townhouse with a very modest garden. Because...

Hi, I posted about this guy in the diseases/cures/emergencies section but didn't get any responses so I am hoping for some insight here - we took in a coturnix quail chick this past Sunday who was very ill. We had no idea how poor his condition was until we picked him up - the ad just said he...

Hi, it's been a real long time since I've logged in here! Since then I've moved up to Seattle. We recently (as in, a couple hours ago) took in a coturnix quail chick someone found wandering around (not sure how that happened). They said they've had it a week, and in that time it's eaten and...

Today has been kind of a bad day - our Pomeranian managed to get ahold of our Jersey Giant Stella and tore the skin from behind her comb all the way down to her shoulders clean off. She's seen the vet, he gave her IV fluids for the shock, a pain killer injection (Butorphanol) as well as...

Hi, our duck eggs went into lockdown on Wednesday. They started externally pipping that night at around 6pm, but there wasn't a visible hole until the next morning. It's been 48 hours since they started pipping and this is how much progress they've made. I'm starting to get concerned...

Hey! It's day 7 here on our ancona duck eggs, and one has an obvious embryo and extensive veining (I think we even saw the embryo move when we shined a light on it) and another is too dark to see but definitely has SOMETHING going on, but the other 5 eggs are all clear with just a dark ring...