I ordered 15 Ringneck Pheasant eggs that are going to be coming in about a week. I have raised bobwhite quail for several years and I have also hatched some chukars and ducks too! I have done some research on raising pheasants about housing requirements and feeding and all that good stuff but I...
I'm a student at Penn State and we just completed a chick embryo dissection lab. We cracked open eggs that were incubated for 3 days and looked at the effects of temperature on their development. The eggs were cracked open into a dish with about 2 inches of saline solution. You could see the...
Has anyone had any luck breeding Northern Bobwhite in breeder pens. I made a breeder pen with dimension of 1.5ft long and 2.5ft deep and set them up in pairs. I have tried it twice and each time the males end up pecking the females to the point where they nearly kill them. I have pretty much...
I have been rasing bobwhite quail for several years now and I have been having some problems just about every year when it comes to mating season.
I have a 4x14 pen above the ground about 3.5ft. I usually have about 20-30 quail in this pen. When it comes to mating season the males pretty...
Does anyone no a way to help stop or prevent bobwhite quial from eating their eggs? They were laying fine for almost a month and then all of the sudden I started seeing yolks runnig down through the wire and on the sides of the pens. I haven't been able to get the eggs out before they eat...
I was wondering I would be able to use one of my gamebird pens as a chicken coop or a home for a couple of ducks. The pen has a 1/2in by 1/2in wire floor. Most people i see with coops raise them on the gound, do you think it would be okay to raise them on a wire floor?