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    Pecks And Peeps

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    Finding lighting for my birds(button quail) - help!

    I have 18 cages of button quails...I use the energy saving compact fluorescent bulbs in some of the cages, some I have small long strip fluorescent lights, some I have Christmas light in the tubes, I have them all on timers, they are on for 12 hours a day and I seem to have happy buttons. They...
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    Hey All!

    Welcome...I have 40 buttons and they are in my living room and it sounds like I live in a bird sanctuary. I love my buttons, they chatter away all day, so soothing...
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    Is a 2x4 okay for a roost for RIR,s

    I have RIR and I want to put them in a new coop area for the winter. They are use to 2x2,s but in the new coop my guy didn't have any 2x2,s so he used 2x4's with the 4 side flat so it is wider than they are use to. They do not seem to want to use it, will they get use to it or should I try to...
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    my hen just laid yoke, and today she just stands..help!!

    Also she is a free range most of the time, I feed them corn, bread, and 16% protein feed. The rest of my RIR seem okay.
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    my hen just laid yoke, and today she just stands..help!!

    I am not sure what is wrong with my hen. Yesterday she just shot out yoke, not the whole egg and today she just stands. What can I do to help her? She is a RIR, less than a year old. She looks pitiful.
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    Winterizing The Coop!?

    This will be my first Michigan winter with chickens and ducks. I went on craigslist and found a couple of heated water pails, and then I bought some zero start low energy use florescent lights that I am going to put on a timer so that I have them on during daylight hours and off at night. I...
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    My ducks lay a good egg and a soft egg daily, what is causing this?

    I give them a layer feed, plus I give them spinach twice a day. I was thinking maybe they could be getting too much calcium because spinach is high in calcium. This morning the two ducks laid 3 eggs, before 10 am. The other morning the 2 girls laid 5 good eggs. Yesterday they both laid a...
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    My ducks lay a good egg and a soft egg daily, what is causing this?

    My girl ducks lay a great looking egg in the morning then in the late afternoon, or early evening they lay a soft squishy egg. Why? How many eggs a day should they be laying. Sometimes between my two girl ducks I was getting up to 5 good hard eggs, now I get one good one and one squishy soft...
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    Some people ...

    oops, posted it on the wrong page..lol Was reading about people who was opposed to eatting eggs from other birds besides chickens. Sorry somehow got on the wrong page.
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    Some people ...

    That reminds me of when the guy who comes and cleans my quail cages and removes the eggs, once said to me - "I would try these eggs but I can not get past the poop factor, that there's poop sometimes on the eggs." I said "You eat eggs don't you?" He said "Yes" I said "What do you think...
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    Button sitting on eggs help

    I have a set of buttons, I thought they were both female, but the one is sitting on the eggs and has been for a little over a week and a half, maybe even two weeks. Will a female sit on eggs that won't hatch? And should I take them away? I am not 100% positive they are both females but the...
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    Button quail questions

    I think they do better in pairs also. I have one odd button and no matter what cage she goes in, I always end up with bare back birds. They always pick at each other until I go back to just two in a cage, and let me tell you I have ALLOT of cages of buttons. And one of my pairs just hatched a...
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    Baby button has a swollen foot...any ideas?

    Thank you at least for the reply. I guess I will try the neosporin.
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    Baby button has a swollen foot...any ideas?

    any ideas? anybody?
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    Bad Button behavior corrected! Yeah

    I do too, put them in birdie jail. When they fight I put the fighter in his own cage for a day and night, then when I put him back if he can be good all is settled, but if not, in another night he goes. Usually after two nights by themselves I usually no longer have a trouble maker. Usually...
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    Baby button has a swollen foot...any ideas?

    My baby button has a swollen foot, it was all curled up and had allot of growths on the foot, then I placed it between two pieces of tape for a day to help straighten out the foot. Then when I put baby back in with dad and mom, they started peeking the growths off. But then the foot it looks...
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    bird injury

    Liquid skin or new skin works great for any open sores on the birds. I had a button quail who had his whole head ripped open, and I thought he was a gonner, I put liquid skin on it and it stopped the bleeding and in no time his head healed and his feathers gew back. Also helps keep any...
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    soft button quail eggs

    I get chicken feed called layers in the crumbles, that has the high calcium in it. It is for chickens to strengthen their eggs. It worked for me when my buttons started laying soft shelled eggs. Now their eggs are hard again. It is non medicated also, but you can get it in medicated too...
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    Help!!! My button just hatched her own babies

    I also should note that daddy was VERY protective of momma while she was sitting on the eggs and even when momma got off the eggs daddy would fight with her until she went back to the eggs, and everytime you tried to do anything in the cage he would attack you. He did not want you to mess with...
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