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@southernsibe Warning: this may sound graphic to some viewers. I’ve never done it, but it’s probably possible to teach chickens AND chicks (as they grow up) to hunt mice. First you’d have to introduce them to the taste. Start with some mouse meat mixed in with treats they really like...

Yeah that looks like it could be a rooster, how old is it? If it's still young give it some months and it'll be obvious. Yes females can fight some to establish and uphold pecking orders. If it's a new flock or has new members they may pick on each other for a while. Roosters tend to be more...

Sometimes you can't tell while they're young unless they start courting females, fighting, trying to crow, or generally just acting like a cock :p I'm with GloryFarm though, none really look like roosters.

My peep I wrote about above your comment died a week later too :/ on the bright side I gave the others garlic too and none got sick. Same with our quail chicks this year--one got sick from something and the garlic water didn't cure her (she died too) but none of the others got sick either. Might...

Hey guys! Sorry it took forever to get back to this thread. In the spirit of being honest so other people can use the information, I've come to report both success and failure. Out of our 25 jumbo Wisconsin bobwhite quail eggs 15 hatched. Unfortunately, the night I found them hatching I...

Hey guys :) This is the first year we've had bobwhite quail. We have ten Jumbo Wisconsins we hatched in spring. My question is this: what kinds of fruit can they eat, and what kinds can't they eat? There's rather low amounts of info on raising bobwhites on the internet so I've turned to BYC. I...

I ordered a clutch of 25 Jumbo Wisconsin Bobwhite Quail eggs, which have been sitting under three mini bantam hens for almost two weeks (I already researched the risks associated with trying to hatch quail under chickens and we've still decided to go ahead with it. So far they're doing fine--the...

We bought some quail eggs a couple weeks ago because we had a bantam that'd been broody for a while. By the time we got the eggs she was out of it but our other two hens had taken over the infertile chicken clutch. We swapped the eggs and now all three of them want in on the action! The original...

I literally made an account JUST to reply to this post. Earlier today I got one of our month-old peeps out; over the past few days I'd noticed this specific chick being rather sleepy and I figured it'd be the perfect chance to hold her. Well as I sat there cuddling her she kept sneezing all...