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I purchased a dozen "Snowflake" Bobwhite eggs and 6 of them hatched. 5 ended up being Snowflakes and 1 I am told is a Tennessee Red. My question is that I am not sure how to tell the sex visually on Bobwhites. I have only dealt with Coturnix before so this is a new avenue for me. I...
For any of you new folks that are wondering what the male "crowing" sound actually sounds like, I was finally able to catch one of my Texas A&M Coturnix males doing it on camera. It took forever to finally catch him. He would mess with me and only do it when i was walking away from his cage...
I am pretty excited... I got my first egg today laid by one of the 20 hens I have. They are 8 weeks and 2 days old today. Hopefully the other 19 follow suit very soon!!!
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I have a buddy who also breeds quail and he has one that is acting strange and he asked me to post this for him. I don't know what the problem is, but he has a 6 week old Jumbo Brown Coturnix that out of the blue is acting lethargic, walking around like it is drunk, and keeps falling...
Hello all. I was sorting through my quail photos and came across a pic of my brooder setup. What do you all think? It has proven to be successful in the past. It is nowhere near that pretty and new looking anymore. It isn't in the pic, but all 4 of the 110 qt. tubs have 1/2"x1/2" wire tops...
For those of you who feed the Startina, do you feed it throughout the entire Quail life cycle or only during the first 6 weeks like is recommended on the bag? I noticed that the other varieties of Purina Game Bird feed have much lower protein amounts (Flight Conditioner = 19%, Layena = 20%, and...