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    Laying issues or me too impatient?

    Are they fighting at all? If they are chasing each other around, I find the ones that get picked on don't lay. Aggressive birds I move into a separate cage. The more peaceful the birds are with each other, the more eggs I seem to get.
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    Metal corrugated roof! Ugh...

    We just put a metal roof on our quail house and we laid plastic before screwing down the metal. standard 6 ml vapour barrier. The condensation pools and runs out the ends. Have some ice in there now, but as soon as things thaw, it will run out as well. I have had a few drips where the screws...
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    Sick 4 month old male

    I will give it a try if it doesn't heal itself. I read the following on a site that has a short video on how to do the procedure: "A small swelling can be left alone and will eventually repair itself ( a course of antibiotics such as Baytril or Synulox is recommended particularly if a cat or...
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    Sick 4 month old male

    Yes, he's a silver coturnix. I will try more females with males now that I have enough to do that. Thanks for the advice.
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    Sick 4 month old male

    I think I may have found it. Air Sac Rupture. Air actually leaks inside their body puffing them up like a balloon. So he could have injured this in a boinking incident. He's eating, drinking, pooping and crowing, seems alert, but he's just puffed up. No bloody or wet stools, no nasal...
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    Sick 4 month old male

    His head was almost back to normal this morning. And he has started crowing again, fairly regularly too. He has also been trying to fly out of the tote, so I made a hospital cage, 1 foot square, so that he can at least look out the window. When I picked him up to move him, I realized that now...
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    New from Valemount BC, Canada

    Thank you everyone for the welcome!
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    New from Valemount BC, Canada

    No, just plain chips, though there is some pretty fine stuff in there as well. But the price was right!
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    Sick 4 month old male

    Hello, Just wondering if anyone knows what's wrong with my quail. I bought him as a live bird 6 weeks ago and he seemed healthy enough. He's been in a cage by himself and when my hatched quail female matured, I put the two together. But with him being so aggressive, she went bald in no time...
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    New from Valemount BC, Canada

    Thanks for the welcome! Wood chip gardening definitely requires patience. It is a no-dig/no-till method. You lay down cardboard and cover it all with 6-10 inches of wood chips. Water it and wait. After the first year, worms could be found an inch down. I could never find a worm in my sandy soil...
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    New from Valemount BC, Canada

    Hello everyone, My name is Janet, I live in Valemount which is close to Jasper Alberta, pretty up-north in British Columbia. I had chickens many years ago when I had a hobby farm, but I now live in a small town on a little more than half an acre that doesn't allow us to keep chickens (yet), so...
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