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  1. LyrebirdJacki

    Spots in light sussex neck lacing. What causes this?

    I've noticed quite a lot of light sussex chickens sold in my area have really bad "spots" throughout their lacing. I've been told by a few breeders that it's the result of inbreeding, or breeding a coronation parent over a light sussex, then breeding another generation from the young resulting...
  2. LyrebirdJacki

    Can I Add A Cool Down Horse Feed Into My Chickens' Diet To Help Them In My Hot Climate?

    Bit of a different question. I live in a really hot and humid tropical climate; great for bantams. However I have a friend with a salmon faverolles hen that is really struggling with this heat. My faverolles is doing very well, I'm not sure if it's diet difference, different ventilation in our...
  3. LyrebirdJacki

    Slipped Tendon in Chick

    I hatched my first lot of welsummers ending up with only 5 chicks, all hens. One of them however on the second day I noticed an injury so I isolated her indoors. Each day the leg got worse not matter how I tried to fix it (I assumed splayed legs) so I did a bit more research. Turns out its a...
  4. LyrebirdJacki

    Rolling head on duckling?

    I have a khaki campbell duckling that was born on the 7th of July (its the 15th now) and he has been healthy up until today when I went to feed him in the morning. I noticed him curled up and his head rolling into his back, and not as enthusiastic to come up to me, at all. I took him out for a...
  5. LyrebirdJacki

    What Are The Funniest Places You Have Found Your Chicken Hiding Her Eggs?

    Just out of curiousity, as I have had some clever chooks over the years to know what creativity everyone else has seen with their girls. Doesn't have to be chooks, can be ducks, turkeys, geese, doves and more. Mine personally was the front seat of a single cabin ute/pick up. The chook kept...
  6. LyrebirdJacki

    Are sebrights a hard or soft feather bantam? My local poultry show does not have a true bantam secti

    I have having difficulties trying to figure out how to put my sebrights into the correct category for my local poultry show. Being a very small scale poultry show, it doesn't even have a section just for sebrights (they do have a pretty detailed section for OEG though including every colour...
  7. LyrebirdJacki

    Can you make a Legbar with a Leghorn of a different colour to brown?

    I was looking up on Legbars from recently learning of them through an advert for fertile eggs on Gumtree (a classifieds site for Australia) and did a little research on them. Crossed with araucana, plymouth rock (barred rock) and brown leghorns, I figured it sounds like a dead easy breed to...
  8. LyrebirdJacki

    Baby Chick Wing Removal?

    I have a baby bantam ameraucana chick that had it's wing pulled through the wire by a rat (most likely) in the night which has broken the wing and looks to have completely stunted it's growth. The wing now hangs low and gets in the way of walking as the chick steps on the feathers. Since the...
  9. LyrebirdJacki

    Best Small Sized Broody? Modern Game or Old English Game?

    Looking at getting a small game breed to use as a broody for my quail eggs as all my standard chooks are far too large. Had a light sussex successfully hatch 3 quail chicks but had no idea what to do with them, she is just too big. I tried various cross bred bantams such as silkie crosses, pekin...
  10. LyrebirdJacki

    Golden Pheasant Noise Video Please?

    I have been looking everywhere for a video that shows the apparent "loud screech" noise the golden male makes in the breeding season. I heard a different bird noise (I haven't had my goldens for long) in my backyard, which was actually quite nice and I don't quite know if it was their call; it...
  11. LyrebirdJacki

    Slate Tuxedo Jap?

    My quail isn't quite adult yet so he is a little patchy and all my tux birds have grown out of that once they are fully grown. I would like to know what his colour mutation would be classified as. His mum is the tux in the second photo :) He is kind of a grey brown or a dilute pattern that you...
  12. LyrebirdJacki

    Dove Sitting on Quail Nest?

    I don't know what catagory I should put this in but I think I might go doves for this one. I have had one of my diamond doves sit on my bobwhite eggs on the avairy floor for 2 whole days. She doesn't budge unless it is for a feed and she comes straight back. She even sits still when one of my...
  13. LyrebirdJacki

    Wanted California Quail Eggs

    I am chasing up to 3 dozen fertile California quail eggs depending on the price. I know the prices fluctuate in Australia from $100 a doz to the lowest I've seen at $50 a doz. Got a really bad hatch and want to try a different source. Just tell me your price and I'll see how many I want from...
  14. LyrebirdJacki

    Humidity for California Quail

    Hello, I just had a disaster first hatch of California quails, with just one out of 24 eggs hatching successfully. One other egg had a dead chick and another looked pipped but just black inside and no movement. I haven't checked all the eggs but I am going to leave them in the incubator for a...
  15. LyrebirdJacki

    First Timer Baby Pigeon Raising - Won't Open Mouth

    A mate of mine gave me two of his homing pigeon eggs to raise a week ago and one hatched today (the other is still chipping away so I guess that was the second egg laid), I looked around on how and when to feed the baby but the baby won't open his mouth for the syringe. I am worried that the...
  16. LyrebirdJacki

    Cotournix Hybrid?

    I have been hatching my cotournix quails as per normal and have got a weird chick from my most recent hatch (last night) which has me skeptical. I currently house some cot's in with my Bobwhites as they grew up together and don't fight, plus there is so much room in there it would be a waste. My...
  17. LyrebirdJacki

    California Valley Quails Hatching with Bobwhites?

    Hello, I've got some bobwhites starting their laying season and am looking at getting some Valley Quail eggs to hatch. I only have so much room in my incubator and was wondering if I should mix the eggs and have them hatch all together. So far I have read up that they hatch "roughly" the...
  18. LyrebirdJacki

    Not Laying Quails + Chooks

    I've been breeding quails for about 4 years now (other poultry for a lot longer than that) and I've never had this issue. All of my quails will not lay, same goes for my chickens, which of course are in different enclosures. Not so much as a concern for the chickens (as I want to breed the...
  19. LyrebirdJacki

    Bobwhite hatching and care: Cannibalism

    I have just got my first load of bobwhite eggs (from 2 different suppliers with multiple bloodlines) and have read up that they can be mightily violent. I've had problems with cannibalism/bullying with king/button quail and coturnix (among with chickens and believe it or not, ducklings, just not...
  20. LyrebirdJacki

    JN8-48 Incubator - Do they use quail racks?

    Hello, I own a JN8-48 semi-automatic incubator and it works wonderfully; a lot better than my first incubator being the covatutto 24 eco, which when I bought it never had the auto turner included even though it said it was included on the box. My issue is that no matter where I look, I can't...
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