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    Aggressive male quail

    yes they are different type of quails. They were sold to us as female chinese quail and a male japanese quail - will take a photo in the morning if I can figure out how to get it up here. so is he breeding with them?? would such an egg hatch?? we have had several eggs from them and they're all...
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    Aggressive male quail

    Im not sure what kind of chinese quail the girls are - they were sold to us as 'chinese quail' , they're brown with yellow feet if that helps any??? We bought them as pets. The male is about twice the size (alittle larger than a tennis ball perhaps?) and is white with black spots on him. I'm...
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    Aggressive male quail

    Hi , we have one male jap quail in with 4 female Chinese quail in what has been a very happy living arrangement for some 6 months . Recently I've noticed him becoming very aggressive with the females , grabbing their feathers and chasing them around. Is this normal behavior or is there...
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    male bobwhite with female japanese quail

    We unfortunately lost our bobwhite girl and so now bobwhite boy is all on his own and not particularly happy about it . Having hunted high and low for a bobwhite girl for him to no avail I am wondering , if I put a Japanese girl (we one lone girl) in with him would he attack her or would they...
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    maintaining floor of chicken coop in urban situation - help

    who knows - perhaps a rooster in disguise although it might be alittle damaged to his sense of rooster-ness
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    maintaining floor of chicken coop in urban situation - help

    hmm - I hear they can do great thing with little dog dress ups?? atleast our next door neighbours chihuahua is currently attempting to disguise himself as a bumble bee ...hehehe,
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    maintaining floor of chicken coop in urban situation - help

    heheheh - perhaps , if it is aimed at city folk , you had better take along a turkey/goose/duck ...this is a chicken.... this is a turkey...a goose...a duck ... - they are NOT chicken. best to start with the basic isnt it??
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    maintaining floor of chicken coop in urban situation - help

    im sure if I scratch around on BYC long enough i'll be bound to find one there seems to be everything on here!
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    maintaining floor of chicken coop in urban situation - help

    its top of the list - were just waiting for the wood to dry out fully so we can put some of that weather strip stuff over, but it cant be put on until the woods dry, should have a nice warm spell over the next couple of weeks so it is first thing on the agenda then. but its not the nesting house...
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    maintaining floor of chicken coop in urban situation - help

    heh - chickens 101 -thats a really good idea though!! , we just kind of started because we took a duck that was on the side of the road hurt to the bird rescue , and somehow ended up coming home with a chicken .... and then I thought she might be lonely... and now we have 6 not sure quite how...
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    maintaining floor of chicken coop in urban situation - help

    and that'll stop her from flapping up?? how high will she be able to flap with a wing clipped?? and is it just the ten long feathers from the top of her wing down when it is stretched out??
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    maintaining floor of chicken coop in urban situation - help

    wolfandfinch - thats perfect!! thanks!! , it does read like putting the coop on the woodchip under the trees and then fencing off the wood chip area with the big ferns on is the way to go - we can put down another pallet of wood chip to raise them up bit and then it can run off , and then...
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    maintaining floor of chicken coop in urban situation - help

    she just goes up and up and up and over - little Beasty!! is amazing how high she can get her rotund self!!, and the others dont bother at all - they're happy enough just scratching around doing chickeny things but she obviously thinks life holds greater things for her than laying eggs
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    maintaining floor of chicken coop in urban situation - help

    I cannot put in a perminant base as we are renting so , would a sort of trough maybe with a taro as the base and then a wooden frame , with sand inside work do you think?? - then we can take it with us when we move again (hopefully not for a few years!) and put grass seed down. We would like...
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    maintaining floor of chicken coop in urban situation - help

    I've just this minute had another thought - I read in another thread somewhere about somebody using lavender to help the smell - would eucalyptus work also do you think?? or is it poisonous to hens?? if I sprinkled that in the dirt every so often it might help with the 'chicken' smell - or ti...
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