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    Embryo in wrong spot?

    Duck eggs, laid in really weird conditions and I didn’t expect much development but 15 had veins and beating hearts on day 4! Only problem was the veins and yolk seemed very detached and moved a bit when you moved the egg, and almost all the embryos and veins were practically attached to the air...
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    Duck on eggs in cold weather?

    My first time owning ducks, one of them decided she would not only put her nest in a spot that I didnt see it, but lay a whole four eggs in it (her first eggs ever)! Its still February and the temputure can get anywhere from 60F to 20F at this point and she made the nest in an odd spot. The...
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    Random quail death?

    This is the 3rd time, and one of the times was with quail from a completely different seller, that I have randomly found a dead quail. The one today was in the outside part of the coop (which is odd because it’s cold and the other 36 stay inside for warmth) and was just lying dead. Food and...
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    Beetles in chick feed?!

    After asking around I’m pretty sure they are weevils so we are just throwing out that bag and getting a new one
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    Beetles in chick feed?!

    I’m hatching a ton of quail right now and found these tiny red beetles in their food, and upon further investigation, in their entire food bag! It’s not a new bag, but I hadn’t noticed this at all before. Each bag costs like 25 dollars so I was wondering if I should get a new one or if the...
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    Broken wing? Emergency

    This is my first time owning ducks and one of my drakes is holding his wing funny and when he tries to flap it he nearly flips over. I let him out to watch him but it cannot be a predator or another duck because he was in quarantine for being a jerk. He also keeps twitching the wing. I have no...
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    Automatically closing door with quail?

    Recently had an attack and my entire raised from eggs flock of special cuternix quail was killed. Going to be hatching more and adding a few predator precautions but due to a weird rule where the coop is I can’t bury anything or use concrete. The coop has an outdoor part and an indoor part that...
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    Quail attack. Prevention ideas?

    Update: The person watching my quail filled in the hole but didn’t lock the quail in the floored indoor part like I asked. Whatever it was came back and killed the remaining 3.
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    Quail attack. Prevention ideas?

    What do you think might have done it? The hole I found wasn’t very big. Some quail were ripped in half, some had no visible wounds, and there were feathers everywhere. My guess was a weasel or a raccoon, and I plan to attempt to catch it.
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    Quail attack. Prevention ideas?

    Like I said it’s behind a high school, so no “Permanent structures” are allowed, so no concrete. I don’t move it around at all as it’s staked into the ground, would bricks still work enough to keep predators out?
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    Quail attack. Prevention ideas?

    I had a small completely enclosed coop that held 13 cutornix quail. They lived behind my high school in an open field with no proper forest or anything nearby due to people’s property. I am on vacation and have someone checking on them, and yesterday everything was fine and today 8 were dead, 2...
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    Can you get quail to hatch their own eggs?

    Yeah, I planned to watch closely and take the chicks anyways so my boys didn’t hurt them. That is if I can get any to go broody! I might look up what a natural nest environment would look like and start from there
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    Can you get quail to hatch their own eggs?

    All 14 of them are in the coop, but its pretty big and they all have quite a lot of space. I watch whenever I can to make sure they are getting along, and before I got rid of some of my males I had problems with overbreeding but now they all seem happy and healthy. And what do you mean by...
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    Can you get quail to hatch their own eggs?

    I currently have 9 female coturnix and 3 boys (but I plan to buy a few more girls) and two bobwhite females (Its a long story- but they get along fine. The bobs are even laying now despite having awful conditions before and only being moved two weeks ago!) and have a few projects I want to...
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    Wheezing quack/opening mouth duck

    Still can’t seem to make much noise, the only time she even can make a whisper of a sound is when my drake starts talking at her and she responds, but that doesn’t happen often or for long, and she still sounds quite and raspy wheezey. Because of that I’m still not sure on gender, but I have...
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