Personally I would gst rid of the offender. I have tried keeping aggressive roos and change conditions in hopes that they would eventually calm down. Only to have nothing change. It isn't fair on the other birds. Even if he only hones in on one victim i find it still upsets all the quail. With...
Awesome article thanks! I currently have a suspended pen with wire mesh on the lower level and DL (mainly hay, sand, shavings and dirt) in the upper but I would like to convert te lower level so that is DL also. I do use the droppings beneath the pen for composting my veg garden so this will be...
Glad it's sorted JPine. Hope you get your eggs okay. I had the same issue. Quail had plenty of space, god m/fm ratio, plenty of cover and places to hide etc... They all laid fine for about a month then out of the blue one got aggressive and they all stopped laying entirely. So I got rid of...
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My wife and I recently installed a new quail pen out the back so we can increase our quail numbers. It has been dubbed the quail palace lol.
Anyways we want to purchase and incubate about 36 hatching eggs. The problem is we are not sure which breed to go for.
We currently have...
Thank you for your replies Penny Hen and Eggcessive!!!
It is encouraging to know that chickens are so hardy and recover quickly from such bad injuries. It seems quail are very resilient too. I got home from work to find that they were walking around and eating/drinking okay. They can take...
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Sorry but I'm new here and not sure if this is the right place to post but I am desperate.
I was keeping 6 Coturnix Quail in my backyard. They are caged with about 3 square foot each. They are about 7 weeks old and all hatched from the same batch. There are three whites and three...