Recent content by LynnA

Are they crowing? Cot roo's have a very loud, very distinct "LOOK AT ME" Crow...*lol* And they have an incredibly high sex drive, if there were three males and one female, she would have no feathers on her head or back at all...Cot males also have a bulbous vent that will excrete foam when...

Alexandra is our cbbq (button) quail gurru, but if there is red around their vents, they are male. And only males crow, thats the growly, wind blowing noise they make. That single female might be growling to keep the boys on good behaviour!

Where did you get your hatching eggs from? So many people sell normal whites as TAM's that it gets very difficult to obtain good foundation breeding stock.

There are definitely silver coturnix in Canada. Perry has a bunch of very nice colors and has tons of pictures on his website . Lynn

These guys are young, just starting to lay the odd egg, and I have been separating them into like colored pairs. So its the girls who are keeping things riled up? They seemed so quiet and mannerly... There is one bachelor waiting on the next group of youngsters so its entirely possible he is...

Okay, I have tried everything! My wonderful cbbq's are housed in my spare room. They are happy, flighty space cases with nothing better to do than plot escapes and toss bedding into their waterer. They are on the highest protein unmedicated chick starter I can find, supplemented with boiled...

Thanks so much! Its funny that I don't recognize a "normal" quail color! So the little one behind, is a tuxedo RB then?

I am SO thrilled with the chicks I hatched out from Alexandra! They are calmer than the last group, will even jump onto my hand when I`m cleaning their pen and are amazing colors! I have 2 little ones that are feathering out into a color I`ve not seen before, not surprising since I am new to...

I know its awful, but I boil the quail eggs, then blend them into pulp, shells and all and feed it back to the birds. My sister says this is canabalism and scowls at me while she says it...*lol* But the birds LOVE it! I mix in ground chick starter and the babies all go crazy over it! Please...

After 9 days in the mail, wicked November weather and the winter egg loss of fertility, they hatched anyway! Alex is a grandma again! Nine cbbq chicks and 5 cot's have surfaced so far and I am thrilled! And best of all, they don't look anything like the colors of the last group I hatched...

I have been reading a LOT about Button quail and I know that they do not breed true, color wise. I have also gotten the impression that if you breed like colors together, there is a very good possibility that they will produce more of the same color. So with conflicting imput, which statement...

I am keeping my month old chicks in a clear plastic tote, and they will be graduating into totes that have been altered! I dremelled a fairly large square out of the front (10" x 7"), replaced it with hardware cloth (1/2 in wire mesh), put a wire door in the wire front and a screen mesh insert...

Do you have pictures of your cages Quaillady? I am definitely going to need more cages! And a muffler, I have a cute little coturnix roo that really loves the sound of his own voice...