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    Telling The Difference Between Male/Female California Quail Chicks?

    Method 1: Send a few feathers and a few dollars to someplace like this: http://www.avianbiotech.com/sexingcenter.htm Method 2: Wait patiently until they are about four weeks old. The boys will start getting their black masks then. Small variances in colouring or size in chicks has everything...
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    New To/Need Advice On California Quails?

    Yay, you've made a good choice! They are not a great beginner's bird, but you probably already knew that. That aside . . . Quote: That depends! I have some that were six weeks old when I got them and after three years I wouldn't say they're very flighty anymore, but they're not super...
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    First time Quail keeper

    I definitely recommend an elevated waterer, like a nipple waterer or one of those waterers people with rodents use. Quails love stepping in their water if you leave it in a dish. Then stepping in poop. Then stepping in dirt and feathers. Then stepping in their water again and turning it into...
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    Quail eye...

    It usually takes at least 48 hours of antibiotics before the problem clears up. I hope your little buddy feels better soon. At least he's eating and drinking though, so even though he's really uncomfortable right now, it could be a lot worse. How did he get ammonia burn? Does he have...
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    Hello from British Columbia!

    Thank you! Unfortunately, that forum contains the only content on the internet I would have ever appreciated a trigger warning for, but having an account is useful because I can block people whose quail keeping practices would be considered illegal and unethical where I am from. Aside from...
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    I am SO ready to give up...

    The photo attached is the jumper-wires-everywhere-proof-of-concept prototype. The real thing looked pretty much the same but with less breadboard and more duct tape. I don't have any photos that aren't super close up (faux artistic >.<), unfortunately. I kind of felt like no one wanted to see...
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    Hello from British Columbia!

    Hello! I'm Jade, and though I'm new to BYC, BYC isn't new to me. I've been lurking here for years but never really had a lot to say. This is mostly because I don't have any chickens and I'm not really interested in getting chickens any time soon. I've already got five feathery little friends...
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    I am SO ready to give up...

    I used an Arduino, an LCD, an RHT sensor, a relay, and a heat lamp and it got the job done very nicely. Since I already had everything else, all I needed was the heat lamp. It's super cheap and super accurate (to within 0.1 degrees!). I'll be around Vancouver Hackspace on Sunday If you want...
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