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Coturnix indoors
For complicated reasons I may need to move my quail indoors. I'm worried about smell, light levels, and their happiness. What should I know? For anyone who's keeping them indoors currently what would you have liked to know before you moved them inside? I currently have 4 birds so I'm hoping a... -
Time without food
You are still wrong. That was not me. I feel like you may be suffering from confirmation bias--seeing what you expect and actively seeking it out. As I said before, please read more carefully or don't reply at all. There's no point in ascribing false words to the wrong people or spreading... -
Time without food
I didn't say days. You may need to read more carefully. :-P -
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Time without food
Every healthy animal (including people) should go periods without food. It has a lot of health benefits if it's controlled or periodic. Look up "caloric restriction." :) -
Time without food
Unexpectedly I have to leave for 3 days. What can I do to make sure my quails have food? No other people available and I have to leave later tonight. -
Help! Just found a baby quail in my driveway.
Quail are precocial, which means that they are hatched more highly developed than birds which require parental care (altricial). It's a tradeoff--if you hatch more developed, you develop in less time and thus often aren't as intelligent or sentient as many altricial birds. This is why altricial... -
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Quail Noob Help Needed!
Well... Thanks for the help! ---You're welcome! :) The specific things I would like to ask is..... 1. When can i move them outside? ---I have moved gamebirds out at around 5 weeks but I've heard of it being done earlier in warmer climes. 2. Where can I buy their food as chicks? ---This... -
Incubating Coturnix Quail Eggs
Here's a very basic page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_to_thrive -
Incubating Coturnix Quail Eggs
Yes. It's really a catch-all term, not really a diagnosis in and of itself. It occurs in every avian species and mammalian species that I've worked with. -
male Coturnix living arrangements
Thanks, y'all. I'm planning on keeping at least one cock so he can breed my hens next spring. But I'd like to have 2 in case one dies, is gay, or otherwise doesn't make babies (haha). If I absolutely need to I guess I could keep two males in their own cages alone beside each other. But that... -
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Crossed Beak Chick Causes?
In the vast majority of birds (of any species) the etiology of a crossed beak/bill is never determined. Treatment is the same in almost all cases, at any rate. I prefer to dremel the beak because it's cleaner, smoother, and less-likely to crack or get infected afterward. However, a lot of... -
Quail Noob Help Needed!
Fair warning: that thread has become less-helpful as it has gotten larger, since it is now very difficult to wade through for those of us who speak English as a second language, have slow connections, do not have the time to read through hundres of pages, have neurological problems with... -
white birds with brown skull caps
It's not a touchy subject, it's scientific concepts which must be spoken about correctly or not at all. For those interest in vertebrate embryology, here is an article which talks about and describes the function of the neural crest: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK6098/ -
Help!
Keep check on Craigslist and also look at pet stores or bird shows as well as farm stores. All have them from time to time. Depending on where you are in upstate New York you may have to travel 1-2 hours. Shipping a low number of birds can be dangerous (you need lots of bodies to maintain... -
Want to guess the sex?
That's not completely true--if your bird lays an egg, it's probably female (haha). And if it crows, there's a 98.93251001% chance it's male. Females have been known to crow, but it's pretty uncommon. -
male Coturnix living arrangements
I've read here and there that some people have kept male Coturnix together for long periods of time for various reasons. I have a group of about 20 birds aged 1 week and I want to let them develop before I decide which male(s) to keep. As they get older and the sex becomes clear I plan to...