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  1. @~rosecityfarmgirl~@

    HELP: Hen's face cut open, swollen - what do I do?

    Well, she healed up very quickly, and was getting anxious in the house, so I let her back out in the run (it's an old chicken run, 4ftx12ft, and 7ft high). My fiance spotted her in a corner hours later, the same side of her face gashed open badly, and fresh, coagulating blood in her ear and down...
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    HELP: Hen's face cut open, swollen - what do I do?

    I'm not sure what happened. I don't think that she got it from flying into the chickenwire, and it's a pretty big wound to have been caused by the male. I'll try to give her some aspirin tomorrow - right now, it's still bleeding a tiny bit, but coagulating on the side of her face. When I clean...
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    HELP: Hen's face cut open, swollen - what do I do?

    Thank you! I washed out the wound with a weak saline solution (the wound continued to bleed, so I applied pressure with some tissue for a minute), and set her in the bath tub for the time being. She ate a bit, and drank, then fell asleep, puffed up, with her head under her wing. Here's what...
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    HELP: Hen's face cut open, swollen - what do I do?

    Last night, we found one of our young Coturnix Quail hens with blood on the left side of her face. I brought her in and cleaned it with peroxide and put Polysporin on it, and kept her inside overnight. I cleaned it up again this morning, and she seemed ok, so I put her back out with the others...
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    1st-time quail girl, chicks are coming tomorrow - I need tips!

    Quote: I'd never leave them out at night - I only have 3 hens, and they're my pets, spoiled rotten and catered to from dawn til dusk. I can always make them a smaller run within the run, or next to it, so that egg collecting is easier. Do quail ever use ground nests? I also have plenty of...
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    1st-time quail girl, chicks are coming tomorrow - I need tips!

    Quote: I'd never leave them out at night - I only have 3 hens, and they're my pets, spoiled rotten and catered to from dawn til dusk. I can always make them a smaller run within the run, or next to it, so that egg collecting is easier. Do quail ever use ground nests? I also have plenty of...
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    1st-time quail girl, chicks are coming tomorrow - I need tips!

    I've often seen pictures on here of coops with chickens below, and quail in little pens above? And security of the pen isn't an issue at all - it's 1/4 and 1/2 inch hardware cloth on top, sides, and under the earth. In fact, the woman that I bought them from kept her adult quail right next to...
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    1st-time quail girl, chicks are coming tomorrow - I need tips!

    Ahhhh... I'm just going by the limited amount of material I've read on the net. Honestly, I know as much about quail as I do about theoretical physics. I can handle chickens, but these popcorn-sized poofballs are something very new to me But I adore them! I do intend to let them forage...
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    1st-time quail girl, chicks are coming tomorrow - I need tips!

    LOL, oh, you guys You quailers (proper term?) are a lot of fun! The sticky was a lot of help, too, thank you
  10. @~rosecityfarmgirl~@

    Happy Quail Babies

    I got my first quail not 2 hours ago And I spotted one of them stretched out in the corner on his side, feet splayed out like a cat in the sunshine. It was hilarious, and unexpected! I think they're precious
  11. @~rosecityfarmgirl~@

    1st-time quail girl, chicks are coming tomorrow - I need tips!

    Thank you so much! I'll be keeping them separate from the hens, and their feeders etc, until they're pretty well full grown. Then, I'll see how they do in the yard with the big girls. How do larger quail do in the winter? We're building a new, insulated (up to house code!) coop this summer, and...
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    1st-time quail girl, chicks are coming tomorrow - I need tips!

    It was a spontaneous decision, but I'm getting 4 day-old Giant Pharaoh Coturnix tomorrow. I have experience with chickens, but I'm worried about these seemingly-delicate quail babies. I've got most of the supplies, but here's what I need to know: Can the chicks live on clean pine shavings? (the...
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    BYC: I need YOUR HELP to change MY bylaw!

    That's great to hear! I also hear that Kalamazoo is very close to allowing them One of our councillors ACTUALLY said that chickens should remain banned because they 'only benefit a handful of people" Where is the logic in that!?
  14. @~rosecityfarmgirl~@

    BYC: I need YOUR HELP to change MY bylaw!

    Thanks, WhoopiePie!!!
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    BYC: I need YOUR HELP to change MY bylaw!

    In Windsor ON, we're having the fight of our life. Council has refused to even form a committee to look into urban chickens, even though there are many people who have them. I've gone out on a limb and invited everyone - neighbours, media, kids, politicians - to my house downtown this Sunday to...
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    POLISH THREAD Talk about your Polish and post pics of your Polish

    Quote: That curly one is incredible! I've never seen anything like it!
  17. @~rosecityfarmgirl~@

    I was interviewed on the radio today! Free the Chickens!

    You know, I spoke with a Windsor Police officer who lives outside of the city (but would like to move closer, however, he has chickens and it's against the law) and he said that if anyone tries to give me a ticket for chickens, to tell them to get the eff off my property. He said he's gone into...
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    I was interviewed on the radio today! Free the Chickens!

    One of the biggest 'issues' is noise - there are 7 dogs on my block, and they make noise all ours of the day and night. I have loose rotties walking into my yard. There's a pit bull that hops its 4.5ft fence and runs into traffic. I have German Shepards howling at blowing leaves. There's an...
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    I was interviewed on the radio today! Free the Chickens!

    Zip! The current councillors have actually LAUGHED at the notion of citizens keeping chickens, like it's some well-planned joke that we're playing. Unfortunately, only 2 of them were replaced. We're never going to see change! I'm just going to put up a big fence and fill my yard with chickens...
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    Is this a moult or an illness?

    I already checked her over and didn't find any evidence of mites. Her bottom isn't swollen, just red and totally naked. I had told the previous owner that she was being picked on, and that's why he offered to give me another - hopefully a different bird would get along better with them? I might...
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