Hens go broody when you don’t want them to… and won’t go broody when you do. Recent content by Pineapple
-
Coturnix indoors
For complicated reasons I may need to move my quail indoors. I'm worried about smell, light levels, and their happiness. What should I know? For anyone who's keeping them indoors currently what would you have liked to know before you moved them inside? I currently have 4 birds so I'm hoping a... -
Time without food
You are still wrong. That was not me. I feel like you may be suffering from confirmation bias--seeing what you expect and actively seeking it out. As I said before, please read more carefully or don't reply at all. There's no point in ascribing false words to the wrong people or spreading... -
Time without food
I didn't say days. You may need to read more carefully. :-P -
-
Time without food
Every healthy animal (including people) should go periods without food. It has a lot of health benefits if it's controlled or periodic. Look up "caloric restriction." :) -
Time without food
Unexpectedly I have to leave for 3 days. What can I do to make sure my quails have food? No other people available and I have to leave later tonight. -
Help! Just found a baby quail in my driveway.
Quail are precocial, which means that they are hatched more highly developed than birds which require parental care (altricial). It's a tradeoff--if you hatch more developed, you develop in less time and thus often aren't as intelligent or sentient as many altricial birds. This is why altricial... -
-
Quail Noob Help Needed!
Well... Thanks for the help! ---You're welcome! :) The specific things I would like to ask is..... 1. When can i move them outside? ---I have moved gamebirds out at around 5 weeks but I've heard of it being done earlier in warmer climes. 2. Where can I buy their food as chicks? ---This... -
Incubating Coturnix Quail Eggs
Here's a very basic page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_to_thrive -
Incubating Coturnix Quail Eggs
Yes. It's really a catch-all term, not really a diagnosis in and of itself. It occurs in every avian species and mammalian species that I've worked with. -
male Coturnix living arrangements
Thanks, y'all. I'm planning on keeping at least one cock so he can breed my hens next spring. But I'd like to have 2 in case one dies, is gay, or otherwise doesn't make babies (haha). If I absolutely need to I guess I could keep two males in their own cages alone beside each other. But that... -
-
Crossed Beak Chick Causes?
In the vast majority of birds (of any species) the etiology of a crossed beak/bill is never determined. Treatment is the same in almost all cases, at any rate. I prefer to dremel the beak because it's cleaner, smoother, and less-likely to crack or get infected afterward. However, a lot of...