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Out of a cage with five hens and one roo I found this! It looks a lot blacker in person than in the pic. It's very rough and the coating is thick. I had recently moved this covey and they are just getting back into laying, this was the first day in a while that I got more than two eggs. I...

Forgive me if this question has come up before but I searched and couldn't find any threads on it. I have a homemade forced-air incubator that fits a Hovebator turner with some room to spare. It works great, I use it for quail eggs often. This time I'm incubating chicken eggs from my...

I have a Red Sex Link hen that I've raised from a chick. Since she was a pullet she has been trying to crow, though it sounds more like a dying cow than a real rooster crow. A couple of months ago she started mating with the other hens. In the last few weeks I've noticed that she is starting...

If you have quail, and especially coturnix quail you know they have a high calcium requirement due to their high egg production rivaling the most productive chicken breeds. Regardless of what you are feeding, your quail hens probably need more calcium than the commercial feeds can give them...

This thread is for the discussion of making and feeding fermented feed to quail. Please play nice, there are as many ways to make fermented feed as there are people and everyone will not make it the same. Your way is not the only way, but share what did and didn't work for you and your birds...

One of my quail laid a fairy egg. This egg only weighed 5 grams. Tiny! This is it next to a normal 14 gram egg. Fairy eggs have no yolk. This was the first time I've had one laid by a quail.

I've had "jumbo" coturnix since April. They were the largest I could find locally, but I know they are not as large as some of the jumbos out there. My adult stock ranges from 6 1/2 ounces to just over 10 for my biggest hen. Yeah, not that big. My egg sizes were ranging from 9-13g with an...

So 9-11 is coming up and who knows what all might happen. Do you have any preparations you are doing? I live in the desert so I'm making sure to stock up on water, both potable and for the garden by filling all my tanks, buy batteries, get extra feed, and stock up on more non-perishable...

How do you house your extra coturnix roosters? While quail are not as loud as chickens the roos can get obnoxious with their crowing depending on a number of factors. The extra roos that do not have a covey, or are housed near or with other bachelors seem to crow constantly. Short of sending...

I've got 11 extra male jumbo browns that I need to process. Some are not so jumbo so are not breeding materiel. A couple are just mean to the girls so they've been replaced. They are wasting food and crowing at 2 and 3am so they need to go to freezer camp. I've watched videos (thanks DC your...

I just got my jumbo coturnix set up in breeding quartets. Some had been in a colony situation with multiple males and some of the hens had been in a pen with no males (I was blessed to have extra hens). How long should I wait until the hens with the new males will be laying eggs that will be...

Had anyone tried breeding their quail to get white or blue patternless eggs? I do notice some eggs are blue inside so I assume they are blue on the outside under all the mottling. Every once in a while I see an egg with no mottling. They are easier to candle of course, but I don't know if...

Is FF recommended for cots? I make it for my chickens but not sure if quail can thrive on it or if it's a bad idea since they are not omnivorous like chickens. Sorry if there was already a thread on this, I searched but didn't find anything.

This thread is for the discussion of Aquaponics. Aquaponics is the growing of plants and fish in a symbiotic system. It is a hybrid of Aquaculture, the growing of fish, and Hydroponics, the growing of plants in nutrient-rich water. In Aquaponic systems the fish waste fertilizes the plants...

I became a member after reading and reading through the wealth of info on this forum. Looking forward to learning even more. I'm new to keeping chickens, though I've had just about every other kind of city critter.