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  1. Nina Cruise

    Sexing polish babies

    When pressed, bandit has a small bulge in his private area which smokey and chickadee don't have. Would this be vent sexing? We now have 6 of these angels and need to know if they will be ok together long term. It looks like 2 of them are boys, could be wrong they are a little dominant with the...
  2. Nina Cruise

    Sexing polish babies

    Hello all. I have tried to find out how to sex my baby polish but found alot of it useful just not for me. I have a hen and a cockerel both with wattles, both are the same size the other hen is older and smaller, now I have 5 black babies hatched out a week ago, could someone please help me with...
  3. Nina Cruise

    How to "Mark" Chickens for Identification

    Hey all, I've tried the nail polish, clever chooks got it off with a bit of help from the button quails, spiral ring on the other hand are very good, poor things hated hem at first but finally accepted them and now we can tell the girls from the boys but the buttons, any ideas they are they are...
  4. Nina Cruise

    White crested black Polish and buttons

    We have 2 more polish i got for my birthday, 1 is definitely a girl but nature is always full of surprises. We have recently found out that the white button quail is the only girl the rest are lads, getting more girls soon to even the score a little
  5. Nina Cruise

    White crested black Polish and buttons

    Hello everyone, I need some help, I have a black polish chicken and 4 button quails and we are having trouble sexing them please could someone help, the chicken is 5 weeks and 1 day the buttons are 2 weeks and 2 days
  6. Nina Cruise

    Chicks’ first mealworms

    Agreed, but keep them in the fridge it will keep them in meal work stage longer
  7. Nina Cruise

    White crested black Polish

    Thankyou
  8. Nina Cruise

    White crested black Polish

    Survival rate should be higher as well
  9. Nina Cruise

    White crested black Polish

    I hope so, we had to water candle the button quail eggs couldn't see through them. Sorry for all the questions, first time doing chooks, what size pen would you recommend for these gorgeous birds, it will have a solid roof as the local cats are partial to live meat if you know what I mean
  10. Nina Cruise

    White crested black Polish

    Thankyou, 8 days I did quail eggs at 14, very nervous never hatched anything accept quail before
  11. Nina Cruise

    White crested black Polish

    Got 6 eggs coming in the next few days, after our recent bad luck with quail eggs, is there any advice anyone can give so we aren't trying to incubate non viable eggs.
  12. Nina Cruise

    My baby quail keep dying...help

    My beautiful quails were in and out from under the heat plate and eating and drinking within hours of hatching, a neighbour had baby quail dying on him so he raised the heat lamp and is now having more success, if the babies are in your bathroom maybe they are too warm with the heating on as...
  13. Nina Cruise

    California quails safety

    Don't know if it was a girl or a boy just to add to the fun, but hey this little pain will either make it on it's own or not. Quick question the last two are currently 7 and 10 weeks and 1 of each how will I know when they are adults
  14. Nina Cruise

    California quails safety

    Sadly the other quails are just on the other side of the fence and this didn't work, like I said it has earned it's name, besides it won't go hungry, it's eating the chickens feed, thankyou for your response, it has eased my mind a little, unfortunately on that side of the fence is where the...
  15. Nina Cruise

    California quails safety

    Hello everyone, Need some advice and maybe a little help. We had 5 quails, one of them couldn't warm up and passed on Saturday, very sad day but the Wednesday before in the morning we descovered peep 2 understandably nicknamed HOUDINI escaped the pen, that night I heard a single and loud cry...
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