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    Male Button Quail Prolapse

    The pics aren’t great, best guess is dried fecal material or if a prolapse, one that’s been out a while and is starting to necrose/build up poop. Definitely try the warm epsom salt soak, after 5-10 minutes gently wash off scab/feces. If it is just poop it should come away and leave some...
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    My 13 year old son drew that (water color marker), he’s quite the artist. He drew a red golden...

    My 13 year old son drew that (water color marker), he’s quite the artist. He drew a red golden pheasant when he was 6 and has been in love with ornamental pheasants ever since but I thought they were all tropical. We went to a poultry swap and they had a year old male and I started talking to...
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    Where do you get your quail eggs?

    If you can find a local source, as for all hatching eggs!, you’ll have better hatch rates, wouldn’t recommend grocery store eggs though! You can use any incubator for quail, just make sure the turner works or hand turning is just fine and definitely use an extra three thermometers. I’ve...
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    Singing Quail

    That’s really cool, my adolescent males all sound like stepped on frogs!
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    Is this thing alive?

    Sloshy is exactly the word for really dead or dead for a significant amount of time! Sludgy is a good sign on day 6 quail eggs.
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    Quail Small Business!!

    Check permitting/license requirements not only for keeping quail but also for selling eggs, chicks, and processed birds. Consider getting NPIP certified if selling across state lines, shipping eggs, or exhibiting your birds. Open an Etsy store or sell on eBay, options include hatching eggs...
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    What wrong this lttle guy

    If he’s half the size of the other chicks there’s often an internal issue and one day you’ll just find him dead, if he’s just on the small side he’ll continue to double in size every ten minutes (hyperbole!) and he may just be a smaller bird. It happens sometimes, out of every hundred you hatch...
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    Weird shadowing in day 16 quail?

    A wavy air cell is fairly common in quail eggs, I don’t see anything odd but it could be 5he picture. Poking holes randomly in a lockdown egg is not a good idea, especially in quail, the eggs can easily dry out and shrink wrap the chick. If I have a backwards pipped chick I may widen the hole...
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    Pain meds for chicken

    Any nsaid can cause kidney, liver, or gi issues, but in cases of severe pain or inflammation they can be literal life savers. Meloxicam is a relatively safer alternative to more traditional nsaids like aspirin, if your bird truly has peritonitis the risk of damage from excess inflammation or...
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    Rabbit tilts head to one side & stumbles when trying to walk

    For someone who doesn’t want to use chemicals, dmso is a rather nasty one, it is great for certain purposes because it carries other medications into inflamed tissue but this also means it helps bring lots of unintended stuff into the skin or tissue as well and should be used with caution...
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    Cortunix white, corturnix wild cross

    White in quail is not related to sex (roux or red is sex linked, as is cinnamon). Your white bird is homozygous for the English/dotted white gene, the pied or tuxedo birds are heterozygous. Pharoah or wild is the base color and even your pure white bird has it (look close at that dot on his...
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    what is the best kind of incubator?

    Brinesea is the Toyota of incubators but this is like asking about favorite pizza toppings, sports teams or vehicles, everyone has an opinion, mostly it depends on your budget, space, and preferences. I hatch in a nameless Amazon bubble and do fine but I tried two other equally generic models...
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    Hatching chicks in cups!

    I love the video on this but do your home work! You’ll likely need supplemental oxygen near hatch and do way more than you need, a 50% hatch rate would be amazing in this instance. I would love to try it but quail are just too little (dry out fast due to large surface area to volume ratio)...
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    Help!

    Anytime past day 12 is fine for lockdown, I’ve had a couple hatch day 15 and my incubator runs a little warm, usual hatch day is 16 rung at 100F, or day 20 with my first batch at 98!
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    Second opinion - possible quitter 2 days from lock down

    A dark red/black mass that floats around in a very liquidy late term egg is often a quitter, the dead tissue clumps up and the liquid separates, sorry!
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