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    Are these temps/conditions ok to start silkie chicks outside?

    Hey all! Our four silked EEs from MPC are six weeks old now, and are small, but seem fairly feathered out! I still see pinfeathers on them when I examine them of course, but they’re getting there! I was really hoping to get them outside this coming week, but we are in Seattle, and I’m...
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    Water dripping off roof & into one portion of run - will this be a problem?

    We finally finished the roof today right before a rain, and we realized as we were installing hardware cloth on the inside that our back wall of the run is juuuuust crooked enough that water drips from a roof panel my wife cut a little too short and ends up running down the cloth and onto the...
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    Is this enough ventilation?

    Hey y’all! Our chicks are four weeks old now so this coming week we are finishing off the coop. We had to make some modifications to the plan we used because we had to build it around a tree, and as a result there isn’t as much ventilation as it was originally designed with. Basically, the roof...
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    Red jelly in new chick stool - should I dose?

    Hey y’all! The new chicks that got here Wednesday are eating, drinking, and active. Two of them had a little pasty butt yesterday morning but it’s cleared up as of today (Friday). I have them on Arrive probiotic in their water and scratch and peck starter crumble. I offered them Scratch and...
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    Does Scratch & Peck mash require feeding grit?

    Our baby silked EEs arrived today and I realized as I was making mash that it’s got a lot of grain in it, unlike the crumble. I guess I didn’t think about that! I don’t have any grit on hand and they’re in a brooder indoors for now as I’m finishing up the coop. I am assuming I need to hold off...
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    Is the olive oil feed worth it?

    Our chicks arrive in the first week of September so I’m trying to decide what starter feed we go with. I saw MPC has an olive oil feed, but it’s absurdly expensive. I tried to research it myself and I dunno what a PUFA is or why I should care, but I did see some claims that the chicks and...
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    Modifying coop to fit around tree?

    Hey y’all. I am building a coop from plans I bought online Here. The problem is the plan wants you to have a fairly large roof overhang, but I can’t do that because the coop/run is going to fit very snugly around our magnolia tree. The tree leans to the right because our tiny yard used to have...
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    Black copper marans from MPC?

    Still doing research on what breed we’d like to keep in our small, inner city flock. We have enough space for a 50sqft run with an additional 50-75sqft of fenced yard for them to enjoy, supervised. Yes, it’s small, but here in Seattle we are just lucky to have a yard at all! We’d like to get a...
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    On the hunt for Hollands

    Hey y’all, long time no see! We had fun with coturnix quail but ultimately they weren’t for us (my picky kids didn’t like the eggs, although the meat went over well!). We rehomed our flock at the start of the avian flu epidemic, but a recent yard remodel has left me with a large, empty area...
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    Coturnix quail looking scruffy??

    Hey all, it’s been a bit! I’ve noticed over the last few weeks our quail have started looking kind of scruffy. It started with some missing feathers on one or two of their flanks. I thought maybe it was too many treats, so I’ve cut back on those, and now they look worse? I was giving them a...
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    Quail with bald spots?

    One of our gals has bald spots under her wings, but the skin isn’t irritated at all. I dusted her with DE and put DE in the dust bath for all of them with their regular dust to be safe, and isolated her in the office for a couple days to see if she’d get any pin feathers in the area but it...
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    Rat attack

    Well, lost our first quail to a rat. I foolishly wasn’t taking their food out at night, and it figured out how to get in the smaller cage that the “rejected” hen lived in. I suspect it had been eating her food for a while actually as there’s no way in retrospect she could have been eating so...
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    Pacific Northwest - Quail Laying questions

    Hey all! The girls (and boy) have finally for the most part settled in (I had to break up one more inexplicable altercation but was able to successfully reintegrate the quail in question), and I managed to make a thrown-together “sidecar” pen for the lone female that they always seem to pick on...
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    trouble sexing quail?

    Hey all! So I’ve got one for-sure hen in the hospital pen, and the male I am fairly certain is responsible in a cage by himself awaiting final judgement. However, yesterday I pulled another bird as it was chasing around/harassing one of it’s fellows, and when I vent-checked it I saw foam...
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    Quail with droopy wing, some swelling in joint

    Hey all! One of my female quail, who are turning 6 weeks this week, has had a droopy wing for the past week. I assumed she hurt it on something and left her alone as I didn't want to pull her from the pen and stress her out more, but it was still droopy today so I gave her a more thorough...
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    Six weeks post hatch update…

    Woo hoo! Not gonna lie, I almost missed this guy due to the deep bedding. When I’m feeling less crappy (allergies are the worst) I’m gonna go out and make sure I didn’t miss anymore - but I turn their litter over daily and I’m pretty confident this is their first one.
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    Quail won’t stop CROWING.

    It’s 4AM, and our ridiculous male (no idea which one) won’t stop CROWING. I’m about to go out in my PJs and throw them into a bin for now in the house so that their ridiculousness doesn’t wake the neighbors. We were trying to wait so that they were a bit bigger before processing them, but this...
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    Cocci In Quail? Something Else?

    In spite of doing a full bedding change every day, and taking the quail out of the brooder & hosing the whole thing down every 2-3 days, I think I’ve got a case of coccidiosis in my two week old quail. One of them is droopy winged, lethargic, won’t eat (empty crop) & barely drank. I moved him...
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    Quail Brooder in the bird room?

    I just finished hatching a batch of coturnix quail. At the moment their brooder is in my office, which happens to also be the room my parrots reside in (Orange Wing Amazon, cockatiel). Should I move them? I sort of assumed since they were hatched and therefore not exposed to anything it was fine...
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    Quail brooder help?

    I thought I had this figured out, but I was very wrong! I put the brooder together today, and I was under the impression quail need a lid on the brooder. I took a large Rubbermaid bin I had, cut a viewing/vent window and covered it in hardware cloth. Next (and I thought I was being clever!) I...
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