Recent content by DownriverGarden

Thank you!! The chick's not really walking, but he can kind of scoot along on his belly (and he's doing better today than yesterday) so I'm hoping he'll get better. I can't tell if he's eating or drinking though.

We've got 2-day old chicks in a brooder in our house. The door where we keep them has a deceptive latch, and as a result the cat got in, grabbed one, and brought it out to the living room. He's got a little bit of a wound on his back (but the other chicks aren't pecking at him) and one of his...

We're incubating our first batch of Coturnix eggs. They've been in lockdown since Saturday and last night, in the space of one hour, three hatched!! My question goes like this: last night was day 17 and today is day 18. As of right now (9:20am) I don't see any more pips or anything. We...

I don't need an immediate answer on this, as our first Coturnix eggs are about a week from hatching (fingers crossed!) but we have a VERY productive mulberry tree in our yard and I'm wondering if quail will eat mulberries? I know that chickens and ducks do, and that quail will probably eat the...

I've got almost two dozen eggs in a homemade incubator right now. This is our first clutch ("clutch"?) of quail eggs, and the first night we had them I woke up three times in the night to check on the temperature. Next time I've got to rig up some kind of thermostat in there or I'm going to go...