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:hmm hi. I am looking for any tips or advice on helping a duck I found two days ago please. I have kept quails, budgies, cocktails, parakeets and currently have a silkie hen. I have rescued pigeons, some successfully, some not so much if cat scratched. I love birds and animals and would try to...

Hello. I'm in the UK and rescued this bird from a boy hitting it with a stick. Can someone please tell me what type of bird it is? I thought pigeon but it's markings are not like a wood or city pigeon. It's like a stock dove but doesn't have the shiny green patch on neck. It's acting very tame...

It's so weird as Coturnix Quail are supposed to be hard to get to brood but my first female hatched her eggs and now the offspring that I incubated seem interested in their eggs too and I feel bad taking the eggs away daily... And the kids are begging me to see if they would hatch their eggs...

One of my quails, Skittles, is a small slightly skittish female who got 'beat up' by the roo she was with but now lives happily with our cuddly tame boy indoors and another female quail (a big fat hen named ChiChi). Anyways Skittles was the last to start laying but she would do the egg song...

Heya! So, my situation has been getting better. Managed to rehome a few males. I decided to 'reward' my super tame cuddly male Tan by letting him have some females. Originally was going to keep a bachelor pad but didnt work out as they started injuring each other and had to separate them all...

Hopefully the link above works! It is my daughter tickling our soft boy Tan. He seems to adore it and even asked for more when he was standing back upright - pecking my finger to say more everytime I stopped scratching under his chin. I tried my other quails, both male and female but only Tan...

So frustrating! First my female gets hurt by the male who has six females all to himself. She's separated and recovering well but is very skittish! Now in my bachelor pad of males (5 males) one got bloodied on his head and is now separated to heal. Two i managed to get new homes for so that...

My male is with six females all to himself. Before he was with only one and I've never had any issues with him. The female is sister with the other four hens and unrelated to the fifth female who was the original female with the male. She and the other four are 8 and a half weeks old. The male...

I have a pen of males all together now (no females!). At first I had two boys, Sunny and Tan together. They were hatched together. Sunny is white but started crowing at five weeks old so that confirmed he was male. Now at seven weeks he has a bulge behind his rear and plenty of foam not to...

I know maybe a strange question! I recently moved my quails outdoors now they are six weeks old. It's been raining alot though at night times and the ground in their aviary (which is on concrete) is pretty soggy with sawdust and their excrement. They can and do go upstairs to a inside section...

I have five quail hatched together who are now five weeks old. Three are white two are golden. Both my golden look like they are getting the male tan colour. However one of my goldens is attacking one of my whites and it has cuts on its head now. Is it unlikely to be female if a male is...

This post is just a self indulgent rambling about my Japanese quail. Hope you don't mind! I hope new people thinking about keeping quail will see how special they can be :) They definitely have their own personalities and can like or dislike each other just like people! I never realised though...

My pen of female chicks will be five weeks old on the weekend (3 days from now). My roo has been next to them for about three weeks so they can get used to each other through the bars. My females seem quite taken with him, queing up to be closest to the side he's on. However on a very brief...

I had someone coming to buy one of my boy quail chicks yesterday but my ten year old was like noooo don't sell that one! She's taken a liking to one of our boys and said he is one of our best tame ones. He's a golden coturnix (4 weeks old) and has a lovely deep rusty breast. And he did lay down...

So I got my pair of quails last year and within a month or so my mama quail started laying her eggs all in one place in the box of hay I put in for a bed and I wanted to see if she went broody so left the eggs and she did sit them and hatched her chicks out. After a week and a half she started...

The chicks are now 11 days old. Mostly feathered. Eating and drinking well. For some reason mama doesn't seem to be so keen on them anymore??? The last few days she's been making the call for daddy. If we put daddy near her with the chicks she is not happy! She does the angry noise and tries to...

Came today flat packed. Put it together and moved my two week olds in. They seem to like it. one has been upstairs (I put food up there) so I know they can go up the ramp but I don't expect them to really use the top part much. At the bottom I put their heat blanket which I'm weaning them off...

I've been very lucky! I brought eggs to incubate right before my coturnix female decided to brood and hatch her own eggs. I'm just curious given the choice which would you prefer? I was very happy and feel privileged to watch my female doing the process but I can understand why people...

She had 11 eggs. Eight hatched Tuesday day morning time whilst I was at work. One died or was trampled. Three eggs remain. Mama is still on the eggs but gets off to show chicks where food and water is. Wednesday morning I went to remove eggs but one wiggled so put them back. Later saw it had...

Wow! I went to work this morning and just got home and I counted about six little chicks in the nest under mama! She had 11 eggs so there could be more hatched or still to hatch. I tried to get a pic but they all disappeared hiding under her now I'm home lol. Some are yellow! Which I believe...