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    Six laying hens in need of rehoming - Free

    I have found a home for these six!
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    Six laying hens in need of rehoming - Free

    Unfortunately we will be moving soon and unable to keep chickens at our new home. We have a 1 year old Easter egger and 1 year old Splash Marans, and the Green Queen, Gold Wyandotte, Black Copper Marans, and Black Ameraucana are under a year old and started laying recently. All are healthy and...
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    "Poop Toe"

    I second the water box idea, but make sure the water is really shallow and that they can’t fly out too easily... I learned that the hard way when I had all my Fee chicks in the water thinking they would stay put, and then they were all over the house with little wet poopy foot prints everywhere too.
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    Probably a dumb question, but...

    I also have never raised turkeys, so I have no advice there! All I know is, quail won’t do well with a standard size hen.
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    Hen going crazy?

    They... just do that sometimes. Around when I introduced my current male and his two hatch mates, my smaller jumbo hen started making the same creaking noises and attacking her flock. She attacked the new ones first, but from then on she would chase and peck any quail that jumped too high or...
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    Probably a dumb question, but...

    An Orpington is a big chicken and could swallow a quail chick whole! Turkeys would be a safer bet, but they also need high protein starter. Best bet is to try to break the broody if you can...
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    "Poop Toe"

    Soaking in warm water is what I did for my Coturnix chicks when they got toe balls. Maybe get them into a space they can’t fly out of and have them walk around on very wet paper towels until the poop can be worked off. I don’t think diet has anything to do with it. Unfortunately I don’t have...
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    Newbie Quail Mummy (to be) - Also a few questions on enrichment

    A sand, or if it’s not too messy, dry dirt bath is great to offer! You can hide seeds like millet or small insects like mealworms inside it for more digging fun. You may find that the sand bath becomes a sort of nesting box as they like to lay in a cozy, dry environment. Tunnels and hiding...
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    My Old Boi Scrappy

    Young males with a straight comb like that definitely start to get a thicker, redder comb once they hit the juvenile stage. Unfortunately the two big guys in this pic are both boys, the smaller one is a female. In the hens the comb stays pink or gray and not fully reddish for quite some time...
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    What breed of quail is this

    Northern Bobwhite
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    Can You Bomb-Proof Quail?

    I hear button quail stress easier than Cots, but never had them myself. They also don’t do too well in the cold if they’ll be outside year round. The majority of my coturnix are super friendly since I spend hours with them when they were chicks, gave them lots of live insects from my hand, and...
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    Good quail toys/entertainment?

    Yeah, I use quail for plural too, but the username is what got me... maybe Julio is lonely?
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    Quail Cleaning

    They will clean it themselves over time if they have access to clean drinking water and a dust bath. If you want to get them clean sooner and they let you hold them, catch each one and just wipe her beak with a wet paper towel or tissue!
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    Good quail toys/entertainment?

    You say “quail” as if you only have one male. If this is the case he is lonely, not happy, and is trying to attract a female, or rather multiple females. The average Coturnix roo needs 3 to 6 hens to be satisfied.
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    lethagric with possible internal bleeding. anything I can do? (fixed partial post)

    Do you think she bumped the tip of her beak on something? I’ve had several of mine do that, if it breaks far back enough into the quick it will bleed a lot. In fact one just broke her beak tip yesterday. Usually they get over the pain quickly and resume eating and drinking quickly, but I brought...
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