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    Quail crop injury? What should I do?

    My husband found one of our female quails with a nasty wound on her chest yesterday and I'm getting increasingly concerned it's a crop injury and her crop is possibly ruptured. It now looks like some yellowish gunk is coming out and it looks awful all around :( She is still behaving totally...
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    Coturnix crop injury?

    Ok it's been a day now and she's still acting normally and trying to eat, but I'm pretty sure it's a crop injury now. There's yellow gunk coming out of the wound that wasn't before. A few hours earlier we tried putting saline+hydrogen peroxide then antibiotic cream on this. It looks nasty...
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    Coturnix crop injury?

    So this morning my husband went out to check the quails and discovered a big gaping and festering wound on the right breast of one of our females. We have no clue how she got it as we only keep two females together in a rabbit hutch, and both are pretty docile and we feed them enough to prevent...
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    Review by '' on item 'Silkie'

    I got my first silkie over a year ago and we won't be buying another after her. She's had an ongoing problem with scaly leg mites and her fluffy legs are difficult to treat. I've also noticed she stays dirtier than our chickens with regular feathers and needs more bathing. Because of their...
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    Triggering broodiness in coturnix quails?

    Hi, newbie to breeding quails here. I purchased 3 females and one male this spring, and the male has been doing his duty, so to speak. The problem is that I haven't had a single hen go broody even though they're laying eggs every day. They like laying in the same corner but none of them are...
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