Recent content by LoveInNature

  1. LoveInNature

    Best breed of quail for a neighborhood?

    I have never seen such quiet quail. It was also nice to see how gentle your wife was with the birds. That aside. I think you may need to wait till they are about 5 weeks to determine the size. You have so much variation in weight and that should even out a bit. Myself and my daughters hatched...
  2. LoveInNature

    Odd colored Coturnix quail chick

    We were getting 40 degree Celsius days inside the house. The humidity was up around 70%. We don't have aircon except 1 bedroom and I couldn't leave it on all day. We had 3 straight weeks in the 30s without it cooling down over night. My all total is 10 girls and 4 boys. I am a few girls short...
  3. LoveInNature

    Odd colored Coturnix quail chick

    Hi Binki! Updates. Our "Lavender" turned out to be this gorgeous cinnamon roo. I ended up with 3 roos and 4 hens. My large egg hatch rate was severely effected by the weather and I ended up with: 2 yolkers 3 euthanased out of 4 hatched 1 pipped then died 8 failed to hatch 1 live chick...
  4. LoveInNature

    Baby Quail News!

    Seriously mealworms are dead easy to breed. Get a large tub of mealworms, put it in one of those storage bins that will fit under the bed. Add apacket of oats and a packet of unprocessed bran. Throw a carrot in every couple of days and all done. No smell, no fuss. I have 3 beetles in my lot now...
  5. LoveInNature

    Quails and pekins? Will they get along?

    Apart from not putting quail with chicken as they will pick up chicken diseases, pekins are around 800gm where quail (Jap) are around 200. Even jumbos dont go over 500gm. I wouldn't risk it for a few reasons. I am not saying it wouldn't work if you had a great setup where they could get away...
  6. LoveInNature

    Coturnix Quail - temperature tolerance

    I don't think it mattered where we lived in Aus this week. There wasn't a city under 34C. I had to put my 3 week olds out in a rabbit hutch on the balcony so they had some air flow, albeit hot air. They are much happier and so am I. I heard from someone else also about the foot bath. I will...
  7. LoveInNature

    What have you discovered?

    Once I had children owning animals took on a new meaning. I had no idea that they did these crazy things until I saw my children interacting with them without prior experience, knowledge or reference. So I would like to hear from our readers and posters alike who have discovered what these...
  8. LoveInNature

    Coturnix Housing?

    @Binki "Hahaha!! Omgosh, she is bigger, and is that quail just relaxing on his back?? The face ahhh " I found that children are very experimental when it comes to animals. As far as they are concerned, if it can be done to a chook, it can be done to any animal. I will take a small video of the...
  9. LoveInNature

    Best breed of quail for a neighborhood?

    I find that moving is always a good option when I can't have what I want
  10. LoveInNature

    Best breed of quail for a neighborhood?

    We have council regs for poultry, horses and dogs and cats. However, there is a condition that you keep all animal housing clean and the animals safe from predators. So frequent bedding changes and adequate space requirements are a must. Your neighbors can still report the smell. The smell and...
  11. LoveInNature

    Best breed of quail for a neighborhood?

    I have 5 adult hens. I started out with 7 and learned how much snakes love them. At Christmas we hatched our first batch. 7 out of 12 viable eggs have survived to be 2 weeks old. I have another batch in the incubator of Giants and Goliath. (Larger cotunix selectively bred for their size). So...
  12. LoveInNature

    Coturnix Housing?

    @BinkiForgot to say I set my big eggs last Saturday. Only 11 days to go!
  13. LoveInNature

    Coturnix Housing?

    I don't have a close up yet. Just took this from my balcony. One of my biggest challenges is keeping the babies cool enough. It was 98f here yesterday. As they are 2 weeks old they need to be a lot cooler than that. We take them out on little runs. Tell me what you think of my big chick running...
  14. LoveInNature

    Coturnix Housing?

    There has to be some advantages of living in this horrendous heat. I got the idea from the Jaren at Urban Aviary on YouTube. They were quite easy to make and a rewarding challenge. Very proud of myself. The double sided tape works well. I have been thinking about you all with freezing water...
  15. LoveInNature

    Odd colored Coturnix quail chick

    @Binki We have named them all and suspect that some of the boys names are actually hens. We have kept two of them as their original numbers. From the looks of things we have 2 roos and 5 hens. This may also change Tracer, Four, Hart - Barred Rosetta Seven (Eyebrows) - Very dark Winston...
See more
Back
Top Bottom