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I'm almost positive that's it! I caught her walking around normally with her friends then I walked up and she sat down. I assumed it would be more like chickens and she would squat instead of sit. She's a beltsville small white so she'll lay eggs that are fertile about 40% of the time so there's...

I add some cracked corn to their feed to fatten them up in the winter. I separated her and she looked completely fine and was standing again. I put her back and she acted normal again (hopefully this wasn't a bad idea, but she looked healthy but sad being separated). Then this morning she's...

I noticed one of my turkeys was sitting on the ground in the coop today. I thought she might have laid her first egg and wanted to sit on it but I got her to move and no egg. She doesn't look great when she tries to walk. Her wings droop a little and it seems hard to walk. She was sitting the...

Here's a link to the "Culture of Quail" book: https://archive.org/stream/cultureofquailor00gros#page/n0/mode/2up I think it's public domain now because it's so old.

WOW! That is HUGE and amazing! Have you found that the quail go broody in an enclosure like that?

Any updates? I've been following this thread closely.

I got mine from Jerry and he said that he tried it years ago and was successful. I just hatched mine out June 1 and I plan on testing it next spring.

I'm in the city limits of Minneapolis and volunteer with animal control. I didn't get into spacing requirements when I asked them about adding quail to my menagerie. They said quail are covered by the chicken permit (I think they go under "other"). They require 4 square feet per chicken and they...

I'm in Minnesota too and I've been researching this since I just hatched my first quail. We really did have a crazy winter! I'm opting to insulate because I have some panels laying around that aren't being used. That plus the plastic on the run (I'm not planning on doing wire cages). I don't...

I'm curious if anyone who used a chicken to hatch their quail ended up with broody quail once they're grown. (And yes I know that chickens hatching quail is generally not the best idea)

I ended up culling the poult because it was too deformed to walk.

I know this is the chicken forum but my turkey poult is having some issues. She pipped externally 36 hours ago. After doing some research I went ahead and carefully assisted her in hatching. That went very well and she's quite active. She seems to have some sort of mass on one of her eyes...

He's sooo cute! There's a documentary about a guy who found some wild turkey poults and raised them. It's really interesting and I thought you might enjoy it: http://video.pbs.org/video/2168110328/ Keep us updated on the little guy!

My broody chicken hatched out some small Beltsville Whites!!!

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'll leave her in peace.

Good to know. Someone told me to take the empty egg shells out. *sigh*

I've very proud to announce my first hen hatch! I gave her some turkey eggs to hatch and she has 5 babies under her. It's been over 24 hours since the first once hatched and she still insists on sitting on the nest. I took out the empty egg shells because she kept pushing them under her for...

This woman has done it succesfully: I've read online about people attempting this. Seemed like some people had great success and others didn't. Even the smallest chicken can crush the babies because they're just soooo tiny. Proceed at your own risk!

I just got a dozen from Jerry and I'm very excited! I'm interested in trying to hatch eggs from the offspring without a Tom (parthenogensis). For this batch I'm starting them off in the incubator and after a week I'm going to put a few viable ones under a broody hen and keep the rest in the...

My cheepers are still in their brooder pen inside but I wanted to know more about good biosecurity with keeping quail and chickens. I know I should work with the quail first then the chickens. And that they should far apart. I read somewhere that it should be a minimum of 20 feet but the more...