Recent content by AniaOnion

It's weird, because the two hens lived together for a year and a half before they came to me. With me they lived so far for 3 months. This is the first time her aggression has ramped like this. She wasn't fully done laying her nest yet. She was showing signs of going broody but she hadn't...

Break her broodiness? So you mean it's unlikely she will hatch any eggs?

I have a quail hen I am pretty sure is broody. She even rolled another hen's underneath herself. What makes this particularly funny is I don't actually have a rooster at all! The thing is is ever since she went into this state, she's been chasing around her sister and pecking her pretty...

Of the quail including rooster? They're in this thread here. :) I posted a bunch. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/growing-roo-and-handling-training.1280684/page-2

A few weeks back I picked up a rooster and a hen to join my coop. The person I bought them from had had a clutch of multiple roosters and was actually LOW on hens. We vent sexed them for ID purposes. Since then I've vent sexed my roo multiple times, and I thought I was seeing the raised bump. I...

It's been two weeks and so far, I have still yet to hear a crow from my roo, or to actually witness him mounting anyone. I'm wondering if it's a hilarious timing thing and I'm just missing it, or he just hasn't really gotten started yet. He should be about eight and a half weeks old now. Still...

That would be my main suggestion too. I supplement my quail with crushed oyster shell I get at the feed store. A big bag was like $2. I also give them a cuttlebone so they can scrape their beaks. As for finding feathers, if you decide to try that, you could check at hunting supply or fish...

Do you ever get them making these almost cooing noises, like one might associate with pigeons?

One of the interesting consequences of having the quail in my room is that I get to hear all these different sounds they make. Every night one of the hens makes a loud piercing noise, which I'm pretty sure is her "hey I'm fertile sound." They make a lot of soft clucking noises. There is...

Me too! <3 <3

Oh absolutely, and in the same way that there are important things we leave OUT compared to what they have in their natural environments such as predators, starvation, and so forth. :) Part of the appeal of things like live plants is as much for what they do provide in addition to the more...

That was my thought too. That it would more closely mimic their natural environment and so hopefully help them feel more comfortable and happy. :)

mixed some with their crumble in a small bowl and gave them that. I'm not planning on giving it more often than once a week, and most likely a MAYBE monthly treat. Also mixed some with my chihuahua's food lol.

From what I've read, quail are pretty good about not eating toxic plants UNLESS they're starving. The little bush, I have to double check. I picked it up when I was looking for things like look like small trees. But small cedars, junipers, etc. could possibly work. :)