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    Checking egg viability with a broody hen?

    There is a super high illumination flashlight sold at walmart that charges with a USB cord it costs around 60.00 but it works to candle almost anything. It's so bright you can place it under your hand and see the veins in your hand as well as other parts of your body and with lots of eggs you...
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    How to tame Coturnix Quail?

    Mine all love it when I say good job good job everybody with the happiest singsong voice I can and will do the leapfrog popcorn dance after a few times when I do the good job song with light clapping every time I start clapping and singing thereafter. It's interesting to note that somehow their...
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    Female button quail hopping like a bunny?

    My quail will even leapfrogging over each other and if I clap and act happy after a few time if I start to clap they start doing it on command. It looks like a coragraphed dance. it's really fun to see.
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    Quail Foot Problems on Wire Cage

    I have experimented and have found that my birds are extremely happy when I create pens that are large, allowing for big groups as long as they are 4-5:1 female to male ratios within those large groups and I create their habitat as closely to the native environment as possible. For Cortnix this...
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    Silver/blue coturnix quail

    Goncalo moreira, who sells eggs on eBay and can be found on facebook, has them as well as other rare colors and breeds them. He is from new Jersey and is a great guy
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    Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

    Hi I have been raising quail again for little over a year (I also raised them in the late 70's as a child) & I have consistently found that if I put them in my bedroom for the first 3 weeks (handling them 3 times a day I put them in the center of a padded circle with me inside the circle all at...
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    Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

    I raised my first 2 clutches in years & I had them in a my room for the first 4 weeks. I took them out & put them on a mat with me enclosed within a circle 3x a day. I used a method I learned when I was little u wear a really oversized shirt & the chicks gather under it & bond. They are very...
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    Chuckar housing & help Osprey, hawk attack.

    Okay I've read that you keep your chuckars and quail away from your chickens, but, does that apply to sumatrian game hens? Do the GH tend to pass on the same problems? Also, i had an Osprey kill 2 quail this week & a hawk came to hunt & at night there is a very large owl. The quail just...
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    Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

    A Tibetan. Corntix are so different then when i had them in the late 70-80's! Mine were one third the size and a deep gold n black. Another question... Just spent the last few hours fighting with a hawk, literally. The drought is so bad he landed on the pen two feet from me and i had to...
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    Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

    Help!!! this is my first post. Have 11 quail about 6.5 weeks old. They started breeding around 8 days ago and 3 laid eggs yesterday morning. As of 10 minutes ago 1 little hen has been sitting on the eggs for 11 hrs (possibly longer) she's in the house pen--floor is sifted soil with wood ash...
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