Search results for query: *

I've been feeding my bird fermented feed and I think I've found the easiest way to handle it especially if you just have a household flock. I saw a video on youtube about sourdough bakeries that gave me the idea. Basically every morning they take part of the culture they have for the daily...

Does anyone else ferment quail feed? After a few experiments I started two weeks ago to ferment consistently and the birds look like they prefer it over other feed. I've heard that because of superior nutrition chickens end up consuming 1/3 to 1/2 the amount of feed fermented as opposed to...

Tonight I found a smallest all-brown egg, never seen one of these before! Anyone have pictures of weird quail eggs? Here it is among the more normal ones. These are jumbo quail. Youngest bird in this hutch is 9 weeks old, rest are 8 months!

This post describes my attempt to determine the cause of a death of a quail, so it has lots of gross details! Please do not read if it will bother you. I went outside this morning to take care of my girls (three month old quail) and found a dying quail. She made no reaction as I reached for...

I wanted to post my hutch I finished building. It is 8'x3' with a sloped roof. The 8' is divided into two sections, one inside and one enclosed against bad weather. The inner section I'm going to put plywood on the bottom during cold months along with trays for easy cleaning. In the summer I...

In one of my hutches I have 25 birds: six males and nineteen females just about seven weeks old. My hutch had galvanized wire but i noticed some scabbed feet and switched to coated PVC. Three days ago i had a look and four of the females had scabs. I marked them with red bands and soaked...

Today when checking my quail I turned one over and noticed scabs on her feet. They seemed healed over. I ran some water over them and felt her feet to be sure they were scabs and not just debris. I then tested birds at random and found several females with similar marks, though the lighter...

Hello! I'm a new quail keeper this year. I'm raising them for meat and eggs. I bought jumbo coturnix quail eggs from ebay and ended up with thirty healthy birds out of the fifty eggs I was sent. They are nearly four weeks old now and out in a hutch! Before this I'd never seen a living quail...

I decided to raise quail this year. I have 30 healthy jumbos I hatched from eggs out in a hutch. They are nearly four weeks old now and fully feathered. Anyway I'm a little worried. Half of the hutch is on wire and the inside part I have a pull out tray (little over two inches deep) that I...