Someone in a Facebook group thought it might be a scarlet fee. I'm thinking it could also be a red range, but I think either way it may have the fee gene just because it has the lighter feather patterns mixed in. It certainly has me stumped.
Hey everyone, I ordered some Egyptian Fee colored eggs that had some known variance hatch possibilities, but this quail isn't any of them.
When it hatched, it was a milk chocolate color with yellow eyebrows, and now that it is 4 four weeks old it is a pretty reddish brown all over.
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Thank you. I think it is pretty bad too. I was leaning toward culling as well. I did end up culling him this afternoon after a final brush up on some butchering videos I watched a while back. It went very smoothly and he isn't in pain anymore.
Hello everyone,
I'm new to quail and have no idea how to deal with this. One of my 3 week old quail roosters got out while I was feeding them today. In flying/jumping around the garage, he injured his wing really badly. The bone is sticking out and it was bleeding. It looks like he completely...