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I finally captured a picture of him. I have all female Conturnix quails, and I live in the suburbs. In 15 years of living here, I have never seen a wild quail. And now I have seen this guy twice. I wonder where he lives and how he got so far into the surburbs?

I have mostly very nice girls that all get along. No males in the flock. Two of them, but one in particular, is a real bully. She's smaller than the rest. Whenever the coop is cleaned out (which is daily right now to control flies) she gets herself all worked up and starts picking on all the...

Or is it fake? It looks real but how on earth is it possible for a rooster to have this much air in its lungs?

I live in the suburbs and it's starting to get warm here in the Phoenix area. I have had more flies than I knew existed in this area! Easily 150 today when I went outside. I think I am attracting all the flies for about 5 miles around. What can I do to control this so the neighbors don't...

We just got back from a 2 night, 3 day trip out of town. I had a pet sitter come by to make sure the quail had food and water, but she did not collect the eggs. As a result I came back to 3 dozen eggs that have been sitting out in low 80's weather for 2-3 days. Are they still good to eat?

A wild Gambel's quail! I have lived in my home for 15 years and we are in the the middle of Phoenix-area suburbia. There is still a bit of free space about a mile away on some canals but mostly it's roads, houses, and freeway. I have seen all kinds of birds but never a quail in my area. And yet...

It's warming up here in Phoenix and I'm getting a lot of flies around the quail. The coop is relatively clean but you know, the poop stinks, thus the flies. I bought a disposable fly trap and it's working great so far. My question is, can I keep adding water to it for awhile? It says to replace...

I have had my quail on deep litter for over a month now and really finding that they are happier and healthier. Finally got my system down. So every night I throw a new layer of straw on top of the litter and they love it. In late evening a few of them will dig out little round deep nests and...

Soooo cute, I had to share! I don't know what she said but she clearly was still asleep with head tucked into her wing. :-)

Hi all! I posted on Dec 21st thanking you all for the links and stuff to help me perform bumblefoot surgery. I wrapped it up and then unwrapped it a couple days later and got out more core and re-wrapped it. (Of course I also applied iodine and antibiotic cream). I unwrapped it again today...

I just took care of a bumblefoot infection on a quail and then inspected the feet of my other girls. I am relieved that most of them have beautiful feet! But two of them have what looks like hard callouses or even something like plantar warts. One of them was broken open and bleeding. :-( It...

I am newish to quail raising and noticed tonight that one of mine has a huge severe case of bumblefoot (was able to identify thanks to this forum and some google searching). Without intervention she will probably die because it was so, so huge. She already was limping. I have 17 quail and 2 kids...

I am really enjoying my little quail. :-) Now they are laying a lot every day and I've gotten some strange ones. Here's a variety of sizes from this week: from very small to very large, and one white egg. The breeder I got the quail from had a white variety, and several of mine have a few odd...

I have young-ish hens laying lots of eggs for our consumption. With 17 hens I am getting between 12 and 15 eggs per day. About every day to every other day I get one egg with no shell on it being produced. My girls get high quality feed with enough protein, and I am also giving them calcium...

I have been trying different things learned on this forum. I am aware that one of the members makes a great PVC pipe feeder, too. But here's my solution. I have one of these cheap feeders with the jar attached. And I put it in a cheap dog bowl I bought from Walmart that it fits into exactly...

I have my parrots and cockatiels trained to water bottles. How do I train the quail? Will they smell the water and start drinking when they get thirsty enough, or do I need to show them or something?

Yeah! Just sharing my joy! Thanks for helping me with all my 1000 questions from the time I got my day old chicks until I got my first eggs today. :-) Five of them. So how long can they sit without going bad (i.e. how often do I need to go out and collect eggs each day?).

So I'm now a month into this and love having the quail around! :-) They are more interesting to watch than a fish tank. I have the coop set up near my patio door so we can watch them. They even figured out how to walk up and down the ramp into the roosting area, which I have filled with sawdust...

I live in the Phoenix area and it can sometimes get down to freezing at night. But mostly we have mild winters 60's during the day and 40's at night. We have hot, hot summers. A neighbor who has since moved away had 'tiels in aviaries all year long outside. So what is the coldest they can go...

I have bunch of quail that are nearly 3 weeks old. I just moved them outside and they are able to have more space, so maybe that's why I just noticed this one with the crooked neck. Its neck is off to one side like it has major scoliosis in that area. It walks around fine, but maybe just a bit...