Recent content by rheo

  1. rheo

    Will Quail use a ramp?

    They only use the ramp to go down. nobody is climbing it up. i'll have to experiment with making it easier for their feet i guess..
  2. rheo

    Will Quail use a ramp?

    could you take a photo for me please?
  3. rheo

    Will Quail use a ramp?

    This is the design I came up with.. i do have 1x2 "rungs" going up the ramp but i think maybe they might be too far apart.
  4. rheo

    Will Quail use a ramp?

    I made a quail cage with a ramp so they can go from one level to the other.. They don't really seem to be getting the hang of it yet.. Is there some specific angle and spacing of the rungs there should be?
    • rheo
    • Thread
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Quail
  5. rheo

    When should I intervene on a hatch

    I'm not sure if I'll get a response in time... I'm hatching some coturnix quail right now and they started pipping around midnight last night. It's 9am now. The first one I noticed had pipped is still not out. It's just that same little pip it had last night. I'll give it some more time...
    • rheo
    • Thread
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Quail
  6. rheo

    Very Lethargic 2 month old chicken

    I had to go out for the day so left the sick one in the brooder situation under the heat lamp. I went asking around at the feed stores and nobody has Corid. Hadn't even heard of it. They know of the disease but they don't sell a treatment for it. They could order the sulpha stuff. It...
  7. rheo

    Very Lethargic 2 month old chicken

    I also introduced to the coop 4 or 5 days ago. (The other newer chickens are mostly brahma mixes. This is the only suspected easter egger mix.) I noticed that none of the new ones have been taking to the roosts to sleep.. They prefer to go in the nesting boxes to sleep. I wanted to...
  8. rheo

    Very Lethargic 2 month old chicken

    Quote: There haven't been any droppings yet for me to check. If there does appear some what would determine it to be your suspect?
  9. rheo

    Very Lethargic 2 month old chicken

    One of the 2 month old chickens I put down in the main coop with the others is not looking so great today. I believe she's an Easter Egger? or maybe a mix with one... she has greenish legs. She doesn't seem to have suffered any injury but she's all puffed up and just wants to close her...
  10. rheo

    Can you help feathers grow back?

    unfortunately i can't stand the sight or smell of cooking eggs. kind of funny i know being very into raising chickens. i would have little problem eating one of the birds. I sell my eggs to friends. i think i'd prefer to give them meal worms unless i could get someone else to do the egg...
  11. rheo

    Can you help feathers grow back?

    seriously though.. how do you provide extra protein? i feel kind of strange feeding eggs to chickens. were you serious? would it help to try to pluck the broken tips of feathers out to make way for new ones? i wouldn't look forward to that job but i think it would be a good idea to do...
  12. rheo

    Can you help feathers grow back?

    so steak and eggs for breakfast?
  13. rheo

    URGENT: Need to determine sick 4 wk old chick issue... (video included)

    You think my Gimpy is a she?
  14. rheo

    Can you help feathers grow back?

    I have a few hens which had all their back feathers ripped out by an extra ornery rooster. I got rid of the rooster in the spring but it's been months now and the feathers don't seems to be growing back yet. Is there some way to speed things along? Will they have new growth before the winter?
  15. rheo

    URGENT: Need to determine sick 4 wk old chick issue... (video included)

    Here is that chick today. I still kinda suspect he's got some issues. Also he's the only one with that colour of beak which is interesting. (at least i think it's a he) but the leg thing seems to be mostly better now.
See more
Back
Top Bottom