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Japanese Coturnix Quail Color Varieties!!!!
She looks identical to what the mentioned bird looks like now. Yours is also "calico" it seems -
Quail Foot Problems on Wire Cage
My cages do the same for the larger birds. I rotate them through to the ground cage to let their feet heal. Most of their weight is on the pad on wire not dispersed through the toes. When they run around they are rubbing their feet all over the wire. It is not bumblefoot, I agree. It heals if... -
Scissor beaks/quail
Hah OK. I am not sure if my girl has a crossed beak because her eye is missing or if her eye missing was a side effect of the scissorbeak! Mine likes mealworms but because of her missing eye she can't aim correctly when pecking so it takes a while! She can't do greens etc which is sad. -
Scissor beaks/quail
My scissorbeak girl just eats what the others eat. She has picked up the knack of turning her head sideways to get her beak where she wants. Does your scissorbeak have a missing eye too? -
red eyed Coturnix chick
No official name. Is yours darker pink eyed or bright pink eyed? The brighter pinks do have vision issues but its not so bad. Just dont put them on high surfaces. The darker ones are fine. Does yours have light patchy down too? They grow smaller than the other colours. Either due to the... -
red eyed Coturnix chick
She has had a couple of chicks. All red eyed to a degree. I have her with a silver boy with pinkish eyes (pink at hatch then darkening, where as she stayed red) and she is producing mixed babies like her and the boy. ^in the above you can see the bird same colour as the rooster with... -
Japanese Coturnix Quail Color Varieties!!!!
After some discussion with a few people, its come to be that the clean chest variety are being called "calico". While myself and another enthusiast disagree with the name it seems to be what it will be called. I have put my clean chested line on hold for now while I move house and focus on... -
Quail interbreeding issues?
Same roo, diff hens is no problem as long as the roo doesnt have any problems. -
Drinkers and laying
They learn to use them pretty quickly. I use ball bearing type as backup water in case their main drinkers leak/are empty/ dont dispense. -
crazy white quail
Check for crop impaction Also check his head. Mine had a big ingrown feather. I pulled it out and he went back to normal. -
Quail aviary planting
I planted my cage out with mini dianella. My japs ate the lot. :/ -
malformed chick
Hatched my 12th batch lastnight. Had one chick who was malformed. Have hatched plenty from that combination of male and female but this takes the cake. I put it to sleep. But I was surprised when this popped out of an egg. Poor little darling. It was so determined to get out of that egg, too. -
Japanese Coturnix Quail Color Varieties!!!!
Thanks :) Its a funny variety because it seems to change markings more than the actual colour of the bird which makes it seem lighter over all but not really all that different to the others. I haven't seen a variety/dilution that removes chest spots and leaves a clean chest without changing... -
Japanese Coturnix Quail Color Varieties!!!!
I have some quail that came out of one of my strains where females have no chest spots. Wondering if anyone knows what these are. They are lighter than their full colour counterparts and have interesting feather patterns with a much clearer horizontal striping. They are definitely girls, now laying. -
Hatching "breach" Eggs?
How did your hatch go? Hopefully upside down bub made it out.