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    Best drinker to limit spillage and wet bedding

    Hi guys, When we bought our quail I headed to eBay and picked up a medium sized drinker for them. I liked the idea of a header tank that can be refilled and a controlled drinker that needed a little less maintenance. The problem is they keep running into it and causing a spillage which in...
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    Hi there from Bristol, England!

    Hey BristolChick, Another fellow Bristolian here! Glad to see there are more of us here, seems like a predominantly American forum so far (not a criticism, you are all lovely!)
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    Fox attack??? Torn comb

    You can set it up to take photos when movement is sensed or you can log in and watch a stream. I've only used it to watch a stream but you can basically remote control the camera from another phone and control the lights as well, so I'm guessing you can set the camera to have the flash fire when...
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    Fox attack??? Torn comb

    Do you have an old smartphone kicking about? I started using an app / service called Presence to keep an eye on the coup after we lost ours, I'm too new to be able to post links I think but Google and you should find it. It allows you to use an old phone as a network enabled camera if you have...
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    Fox attack??? Torn comb

    I can't help with the treatment side of it but I would definitely say it was a fox. We had a very similar incident with our first batch of quail a few months back, no bodies left behind only some feathers around garden. Apparently foxes just kill for sport and will take the birds one by one...
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    Just saying hi...

    Thanks guys, I knew this would end up being posted twice! Ah well, never mind!
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    New member and Quail owner, just saying hi....

    I knew this would end up being posted twice! Ah well, never mind! Hey Nancy, thanks! I haven't built anything before really, I just figured "how hard could it be?" :) Nope we don't have any other predators as far as we know of but we do live near a nature reserve and a river so their could...
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    New member and Quail owner, just saying hi....

    So... erm, hi! I've been lurking and reading the forums for long enough so I figured I'd best become a member and introduce myself! I'm Ben and my wife and I are new Quail owners from Bristol, UK. We got our first batch of Quail in April / May time but sadly these became victims of the local...
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    Just saying hi...

    So... erm, hi! I figured it was time for me to join the community as I have been more of a lurker for the last few months. I'm Ben, a new Quail keeper from Bristol, UK. We got our first batch of Quail in April / May this year, but these sadly did not survive much longer than a few weeks due...
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