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    Quail with pecked eye

    Its 3 hens, no males. They are in a space of aprox 1 sqm (0.33m2 per bird, or 3.5 sqft per bird). Yes they have a dirt bath, although it was running low on sand in the last couple of days, which could have also added to create the perfect storm. A couple of places to hide, yes. Previous pecking...
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    Quail with pecked eye

    Also, another reinforcing element for my hypothesis of this stress surge, is that fact that yesterday was the first day in weeks where none of them lay eggs (they have been laying 3 eggs a day - 1 each - for 6 weeks aprox).
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    Quail with pecked eye

    Also, another reinforcing element for my hypothesis of this stress surge, is that fact that yesterday was the first day in weeks where none of them lay eggs (they have been laying 3 eggs a day - 1 each - for 6 weeks aprox).
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    Quail with pecked eye

    So today I found one of my three quails hidden in a corner, with a bleeding eye side. On this, I have 2 questions: how to treat it, and what might have caused it. On the first, I have cleaned the affected area (attached photo) with q tips with clean water, and hace separated her in an area with...
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    Mixing hen groups in new cage

    Thanks for the tips!
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    Mixing hen groups in new cage

    It´s gonna be a bit bigger than what they have right now, which is 6-7 sqm (so around 2sqft per bird), so by adding a couple more would definitely not go below 1, most likely will have a bit more than 1.5 sqft per bird.
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    Mixing hen groups in new cage

    Must be about 40cm deep or so. Then again, I am in the top floor, so those garden areas have access to direct sunlight and no roof (it barely rains here in Lima). It was purposed for having grass, but I have reconverted some to have a small planting area. And quails now haha.
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    Mixing hen groups in new cage

    Haha no prob, there it goes (its the top floor of the building). It was nicer when there was grass beneath the birds though.
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    Mixing hen groups in new cage

    Let´s summarize it as garden is ruined, there is no grass, I have no space for further rotation - decision is taken to move birds from on-the-ground cage to a traditional above ground cage. The key question is if in this move, there is an opportunity to add birds (1-2 addtl) to the current...
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    Mixing hen groups in new cage

    To put it simply, I have 3 of them in a 1 sq meter cage, and the garden is 2 sqm (this is a garden in an apartment we are talking, not a house with an aviary). So I have them a couple of weeks in one side, then move it to the other. At the beginning there was grass, but now there is grass in...
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    Mixing hen groups in new cage

    Rat shouldnt be a problem. I live in the 5th floor of a new building, and this is in an inside garden. Haven´t seen a rat in my life close to where we live.
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    Mixing hen groups in new cage

    So currently I have 3 hens in a cage directly on the ground, but as I see how the soil deteriorates, and given that I have only 2 positions for it to rotate, I am seriously thinking in getting them a more typical wired based cage (sad for them though). My question would be - if I were to do...
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    Rice with weevil bugs - Good protein source?

    They are little beetle-like insects that feed on grains - so its a pest infecting rice and others (if you have a bag of rice and let it sit for months, it will probably grow some). Thing is, they attacked a complete bag of my paella rice, so I took like 30-40 of the little bastards, put them on...
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    Rice with weevil bugs - Good protein source?

    so... no one? am I in unchartered territory here?
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    Rice with weevil bugs - Good protein source?

    So I found a bag of rice completely infested with rice weevils. Stated picking up several of them, put them in a plate and served them to my quails. They absolutely went nuts and finished them in matter of minutes. Has anyone else done this? I now feel tempted to always keep an aitight...
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