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    Sick quail - ulcerative enteritis?

    Hi all,
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    UK Cocci advice

    Hi @Perris, Thanks for the information, that’s really helpful.
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    UK Cocci advice

    Hi all, I’m wondering if anyone in the UK can recommend a Coccidiosis treatment suitable for quail? I went to my feed store and they only had medicated chick feed (I want to treat my adult birds) or Megacox racing pigeon treatment which they thought might not be suitable. If anyone else has...
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    Help! I have an aggressive quail!

    Do they have access to a sand bath? I had some aggression issues in my pens but since I added a sand bath (with the occasional addition of some mealworms and crushed oyster shell) I’ve not had any issues at all. Also somewhere to hide is usually helpful, if you don’t have that already. I have...
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    Bully quail

    By way of an update, I reintroduced her to the group today and all is calm for the moment. I reorganised the enclosure a bit and put her in a mesh sided box inside the enclosure for a few hours before letting her out so she could acclimatise to being back in the group. I am keeping a close eye...
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    is hens yelling while laying normal?

    Yes definitely normal, mine let out a screech as they lay.
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    Bully quail

    Hi all, Hoping for a bit of advice. I’ve got a group of 6 female jumbo Italians kept in a 12sq foot enclosure. They’re a new group of birds to me, who I’ve had for about a month without any problems and have all been laying an egg a day since they arrived. This week I noticed that 5 of them...
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    Older bird culling - what to do?

    Hi all, I will shortly need to thin out some of my numbers to make way for new blood. The birds that will be culled are probably the best part of 18 months old now, so I am sure they will be tough as old boots and no good for eating. Any ideas on what I could do with the culled birds? Seems a...
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