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Hello! I have a 20.5' x 14' aviary with lots of bushes and plants for the quail to hide in. They'll also each have separate coops at night time. I have a Tennessee red and a snowflake bobwhite, and a pair of blue scaled quail. I'm wondering if button quail would get along with them if they had...

Hello! I'm getting a pair of bobwhite and a pair of blue scaled quail for my aviary (about 300 square feet), and I'm wondering if bantam chickens could live with them? (My mom wants chickens for their eggs.) For example if I got some of the smallest chickens like seramas, would they all be able...

Hello there! :) I'm planning on breeding a pair of blue scale quail and possibly a pair of bobwhites. Do you have any brand or feed suggestions for breeder quail? I want to feed them the best diet I can. Any tips on breeding would also be appreciated. Thanks!

Hello! In about two weeks I'm adopting 4 quail. A very sweet pair of bobwhites (a black looking colored one and a snowflake) and a pair of friendly blue scaled quail. I just have a few questions. Here's some info: My aviary is 20 feet 6 inches by 14 feet. I have two coops, one is 10 square feet...

Hello! On April 9th I'll be adopting 4 Quail, a pair of scaled quail, and a pair of bobwhites. The female bobwhite is a snowflake bobwhite, but I have no idea what coloration the male is... Here's a picture, the male is the dark one and the female is the snowflake one. Any ideas on what the...

Hello! I know a lot about raising cot quail, but I'm adopting some scaled quail soon and I don't know much about how to care for them. I'm also getting a bobwhite quail. So just had a few questions. Do I feed scaled quail the same thing I'd feed coturnix? (Gamebird feed). Do you need a...

I'm planning on getting two ducklings this april, and I really want them to imprint on me so that it's easier to tame them. I'll be spending almost all day with them from the moment I get them because of how much I love ducks lol. If I get them at a day old, will they still imprint on me, or...

Hello! I'm possibly getting 2 welsh harlequin x runner crosses this may, but I was just curious whether they'd be sex linked or not. I know with welsh harlequin ducklings you can tell male vs female by beak color, but if they're mixed with a runner does that still work? Thanks!

Hello! I'm trying to decide between calls or welsh harlequin x runner crosses. It's such a hard decision! Which would you choose and why? I'd love to hear your opinions, maybe they'll help me decide on one of the breeds/mixes! I mostly just want them for pets and to eat slugs in my garden, I...

I know ducklings need niacin, but I just bought chick feed that I'd rather not waste but I don't think chick feed has enough niacin for ducklings. So my question is, how do I give it to them? Do I put it in their food or water, or is it some other method? Also, do I just give them the niacin...

Hello! for call ducks what's the minimum amount of females to a drake? Would 2 ducks to a drake be too little? I'm planning on getting call ducks soon, but I don't want to get very many. I'd like to breed them, but I don't want any of my ducks to suffer during mating, so I want to avoid over...

Hello! So I'm planning on getting two call ducklings in late april / may but now I'm having second thoughts because I'm not sure if my garden is big enough (the ducks will be living in an enclosed area in my garden)... I think it is because call ducks are smaller than other ducks? The...

Hello! I'm getting runner duck hatching eggs soon (I've been doing research for years now, ever since I hatched, raised, and released a wild mallard). I already have a coop and run design too. I'm super excited, but first I just wanted to know more information on runner ducks. I know most of...

Hello! I'm getting ducks soon, and I was wondering what your favorite ducks were, and the reasons you like them. You can post pictures of your ducks too if you want! (this is kinda just a thread for talking about your ducks lol). and if you want to help me figure out a breed that fits this...

My quail egg that i'm hatching just pipped yesterday around this time and i thought by the morning it would've at least zipped. Nope. The hole IS bigger though, so I'm not sure whether it needs help or not :confused: . Im thinking about waiting another couple hours just to see if it starts...

Hello, hope you're all having a good day! I have 5 eggs in my homemade incubator right now, and one of them started pipping this morning. But the other four, i'm not sure if they're alive. So we had a power outage a couple days ago, and it was in the middle of the night so i was asleep and...

Hello! I'm wondering if there's any plants I could grow in a small pond I'm making for when my ducks grow up to help keep the water clean. I'd still clean it out whenever it needed to be cleaned out, but is there some sort of plant that could keep it slightly cleaner because I don't want my...

Hello, so I have kind of a different story than the normal "How to convince my parents to let me get chickens". I'd actually like to adopt some older chickens. My friend here on byc has to get rid of some of her older chickens and I'd really like to take some. I have a coop design, supplies to...

Hello there! I have some quail eggs that I've been incubating, and about two days ago I could see them all moving in the shell. But today (hatch day) I candled them and they had all stopped moving. We had a power outage last night but it only lasted like 6 minutes, and other than that it's...

Hello, hope you're all having a good day! I've been doing research on hatching eggs without shells using a cup, plastic food wrap, a cotton ball, distilled water, and calcium lactate powder. I think the first people who did it were high school students in japan, or scientists, (not sure who did...