Recent content by Masaj Mahrhad

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    What is wrong with my hen?

    I dunno exactly how old exactly. The seizure hasn’t stopped. I’ll give her some more time, but I don’t think she’ll make it.
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    What is wrong with my hen?

    This morning I found one of my hens having an apparent seizure. She can’t stand upright and is flailing about. Anything I can do to help her? Or should I put her out of her misery?
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    Worried I screwed up on hatch day

    Well the good news is I’m up to 9 hatchlings with 2 more eggs fracturing with quails trying to break free. The excess moisture from before has dried out. Now what temperature and humidity should I set it at to maximize hatches?
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    Worried I screwed up on hatch day

    I'm afraid that might not be the case for me. Although my incubator has a fan, when I examined the unhatched eggs, they were cold on the bottom, and sitting in a lot of absorbed moisture from the rubber mesh. :( I don't now what 3 days of being cold on the bottom can do to an unhatched egg. I...
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    Worried I screwed up on hatch day

    My eggs are hatching today. I began with 32 eggs with a hope of a 70% hatch rate. This morning I could hear them chirping through the egg shells when i opened the incubator to check on them. After work, 4 had hatched. Now I'm up to 7, and it is now 10:20pm. 3 days ago, I removed the rollers...
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    Should I trust this chicken coop for my quails?

    This chicken coop was gifted to me by my parents, because I am incubating 32 eggs which will hatch soon. But I don’t trust coop, because it sits on the ground level, and predator critters can easily dig under the fence and attack them. It has a ramp and a roosting house above ground, but the...
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    When can my quail babies live outside?

    My quail chicks are now 10 days old and they’re growing fast. It’s summer time and it gets to lows of 62F. In my garage where they’re kept, it stays around 85F all night. How much older must they be before I let them live outdoors?
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    2 day old quail with leg problem

    So I'm gonna try the shot glass method on this one. How long do I keep it in the shot glass?
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    2 day old quail with leg problem

    Only as a worst case scenario. I'll keep trying.
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    2 day old quail with leg problem

    That surface in the photograph is actually not my quails’ habitat. Rest assured, they are all walking on chopped hay right now. I merely used that green gold mining pan as a photographic backdrop so you could see the quail’s leg problem more easily. A yellow chick on yellow hay in a photograph...
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    2 day old quail with leg problem

    This hatchling’s leg is jutted off to the side and it struggles to walk around with the others. Is this a deformation or a broken leg? Also, is there any hope of saving it?
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    Hatchlings are here! Concerned about temperatures

    I figured that was the issue. I will now periodically turn the heat lamp off, and give them a break from the heat for a few hours per day. I also need to get an area thermometer
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    Hatchlings are here! Concerned about temperatures

    Hi everyone, my hatchlings were born yesterday. 13 in total. I quickly set up their nesting area in my garage, inside a plastic tote bin, with chopped hay as their bedding surface, and an infrared heat lamp about 2 feet above. I set it up so half of their bin is exposed, while the other half is...
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    How to get quails to tend their eggs?

    It seems that quail hens will neglect their eggs after laying them. I want to raise another generation of quails, but my quails don’t seem to care. Do I have to buy an egg incubator? Or can I trust my hens to care for their eggs?
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    Which rooster quail to cull?

    They are coturnix quails. So yeah. I need to acquire some more females
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