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Can anybody tell me what the heck this thing is/what caused it?

The mass is hard, not squishy... It appears to be on top of her skull (not inside), her brain hasn't been conpromised as far as I can tell.

I found one of my female coturnix with a large head swelling while cleaning the cage today. She was pecked on the head and had feathers plucked by an aggressive male, but that was weeks ago, and the male is long gone. She was fine a couple days ago. This came out of nowhere, I have no idea...

My pen is a modified rabbit hutch. There was originally a small door on the front that we removed and replaced with hardware cloth for more light. We also built an insert for the bottom made of hardware cloth and a PVC border. With even MORE hardware cloth we built a screen for the top and put...

The cage is roughly: 38 inches long 19 inches wide 17 inches high That size is for seven quail. I already keep a dust bath in the cage, so I will try adding a hide for them. Other than that all I can do is hope this next male is less aggressive.

So I had a ratio of one male to six female coturnix in a cage, and all seemed to be going well for a little while. Then I found a few hens had been roughed up by the male :( I removed him and he was killed for food. I have another male that I would like to introduce, but I'm frightened for the...

I have a Blendtec blender ;) Gonna try crushing some oyster shell in there. I was able to get game bird chick food that was already "mashed" so I haven't to crush anything yet!

My coturnix hens will be laying soon, and I wanted to give them some extra calcium. I looked at the oyster shell at my local farm store but the pieces were huge! Is there oyster shell I can buy that will be more "quail-sized"? What do you guys use to provide calcium to quail? Thanks!

Great, thank you everyone :) I am removing three males tomorrow and will keep them separate until they big enough to eat!

I currently have ten, 5-week old, coturnix quail living together in an enclosure. I got them when they were too young to be sexed, so of course I have too many males! I have 4 males and 6 females. I would like to keep two of my males, so the male to female ratio would be 1:3. Or...