Recent content by quail_mother

i’ll look into it. at least to me i never noticed any signs my bird could be blind, but i it’s always possible. i’m very inexperienced so i wouldn’t know. one thing to note when it comes to your reasoning about the others being silver, is that they weren’t, as far as i know, from the same hen...

Hi, my family and i have four 5-week old coturnix quail, but our white one is noticeably smaller than the others. we actually had two “runts” when they hatched, the first one had wry neck (or at least similar symptoms) so it was our main focus for the first few weeks and we didn’t pay as much...

Hi, i had been wondering about the colors of two of my month old quail, who are both a gray color that i hadn’t seen anywhere in coturnix quail up until I found out about silver and blue quail. I think i found the the answer to my question but i’m wondering about whether i’ve made a mistake. On...

That’s unfortunate. Thanks anyway, though. I’m hoping there’s only one (or better, zero) male because we really wouldn’t have enough females in there to prevent fights breaking out

Hi, I am new here (and new to raising birds in general!) my family is on our first coturnix quail hatch and we’re a bit confused as to how to sex our quail. I was wondering if any of you could help me with sexing and figuring out the color of our quail? Thanks. They are all three weeks old...