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    Found a baby pheasant chick - please help!

    Again, the pheasant page in this forum will probably have a few more knowledgeable members, but keeping her warm (hot water bottle should be okay for now if she is decently feathered, I have little pheasant experience but she doesn't look fresh out of the egg by any means.) A stuffed animal...
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    Found a baby pheasant chick - please help!

    Ahh, totally my bad in this case. I thought you were in the US! I was just mainly worried about the legality of it. :bow
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    Found a baby pheasant chick - please help!

    Again, please contact a local wildlife center who is allowed to care for these birds. In the meantime, here are some info I found from some threads on care while you wait to get her into a center. Keep them around 95* and lower the temp by 5* a week. Change to a red light bulb to try to keep...
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    Found a baby pheasant chick - please help!

    I would recommend taking it to a local wildlife center near you. In the future, please do not take wild game bird chicks home. The pheasant forum may have better advice. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/pheasants-and-partridge-chukar.50/
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    Weak lethargic quail

    What kind of feed are they on? Baby quail chicks need exceptionally high protein (23-28 percent) and I used Manna Pro Gamebird Starter for my chicks. Is poop stuck to their butts? Did you dip their beaks in the waterer after they hatched? they are silly little birds and often won't realize...
  6. The Strange Occurrence of My Only Tame Quail

    The Strange Occurrence of My Only Tame Quail

    When I first began quail raising, I entertained vivid fantasies of having a tiny quail army that would placidly allow me to hold and carry them around, pocket-sized pets that would all magically forgo the allure of escape into the imposing, thickly shrubbed wood around my home and instead be...
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    What's the line between aggressive bully and pecking order?

    Feather eating isn't normal. Most likely if she really is eating the feathers then her diet is deficient in protein. Crushed boiled eggs can add protein, as well as crushed mealworms. I also have heard cat food is good for protein, but have never personally used it. What feed are you using? What...
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    This forum has been much different lately.

    I'm also here to confess...when I first joined this forum, I was part of at a lot of threads and asked a bunch of dumb questions about my own birds that really weren't important. I was overexcited and acting very immature with how enthusiastic I was-in reality, I could have spent more time...
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    Quail with bubbles in eye? Help!

    Bubbly eyes, like "frothy" bubbles at the edges can be a sign of a respiratory infection (mycoplasma). Are any of the other birds getting similar reactions? Have you noticed facial swelling or sneezes/labored breathing? (It doesn't sound like you have but keep an eye on the rest of the flock...
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    Meet the Peepers

    gosh, this is making me want buttons asap...they need to stop being so darn cute :love
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    comfortable temps for ADULT quail

    Well, it depends on what type of quail you have. I'm going to answer this based on coturnix, because that's the limit my experience goes to. If you are basing it off "ability to survive" instead of "comfort", then they can make it into the 100's, but need cold packs, cool water, shade, and I...
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    Coturnix vs Button Quail - We were scammed and now need to know the difference

    I'm late to this, but you may actually have been dealt a lucky hand by getting scammed, in terms of bird hardiness! (I mean this completely sarcastically, as I actually had the same thing happen to me-thought I had buttons, wound up with Coturnix-small world!) Good news-the eggs are much bigger...
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    Beaten up button quail

    Oh, my heart is just breaking for those poor babies. Thank you for taking them in!
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    Bullying at onset of laying?

    I don't know if it will for sure fix it, but I have done it before with my flock when I had some new birds that didn't quite mesh and they seem less territorial when they are all in a "new" area. I hope it helps! I'm quite sentimental about my birds as well and also try not to cull unless I have...
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    Bullying at onset of laying?

    You could also try putting them all together in a new environment, like a large crate (temporarily, like for a half hour and then put them back in their usual home), and see if it calms them down to "reset". if she is being territorial. Being in a new environment all together and then placed...
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