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    How tame are your californian/gambels and similar breed quail?

    im just trying to get an idea of how tame these quail get? mine (gambels and cali) will sit on my feet and sometimes and eat from my hand hand but wont let me catch them (easily anyway) do they get any tamer?
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    Old quail attacking new quail

    Have introduced new quail (following batch) to older batch and the older ones chase the newer ones. What can I do?
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    A thank you message :)

    i want to just thanks to thanks to the poster who linked to a spraddle leg fix. if i didnt have the internet i would have had to put the chick down. one of my newest californian quial had spraddle leg on one leg (havent had it in 3 batches i have hatched). i put a plaster (took a while to...
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    One quail chick hatched early, keeps cheaping for parent!

    One baby quail has hatched out earlier than it should and is on its own, now i cant be there all the time with it (work etc) and usually they dont mind. is there anything i can do to stop it wasting energy!?
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    Shelter/hutch for my cali/gambel quail

    hi now the quail run is nearly built i am looking for hutches for them to sleep in. i was thinking a guinea pig style hutch with a perch. temperatures get below freezing here in winter. what do you guys reccomend?
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    1 week old quail chick looking lethagic..last batch the same chicks died

    Hi Does anyone know what is going on here. almost ezaclty one week after hatching an otherwise completely healthy chick starts getting really lethagic and a day or two later dies. Happened with my first batch too exactly the same symptoms. Is there anything i can do?
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    4 week old californian quail. next steps.. Feeding, housing etc

    my californian quail are now 4 weeks old, 7 of 12 eggs hatched, but only have 5 now. atm they are in a plastic small animal pen on 1 60w heat lamp eating meal worms and chick crumbs. What is the next step? Especially with feed? They still sleep near the light so im keeping it on for now.
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    1 week old quails, getting sleepy then dying after couple of days

    Hi Hope someone can help. Have a few quails that hatched last week, everything seemed ok but just in the last few days 1 appeared sleepy and died last night. I think another one is doing the same. Anyone know what is going on? I'm starting to expect they will all die! So demoralising...
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    disaster incubation

    just finishing incubating £50 of quail eggs, looking like a 100% failure have a brinsea octagon advance and not confident its working. have had the temperature at 99.8 for the whole duration and humidity at 47% until 3 days prior to hatch whereit came off the cradle and humidity up to 70%...
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    Need help with quail hatching [californian]

    Hi, im new and have just done an intro. I have just finished incubating 12 quail eggs and have had 0 success, infact im pretty saddened by the result. 12 eggs 9 just yolk 1 dead in shell 2 not going to make it.. very sad have been using a brinsea octagon 20 wih auto turn cradle [friends...
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    Hi, Im Alex, general avian lover come for help with quail hatching

    Hi, been looking for a forum and this seemed the best. Im alex, 26, from suffolk. I have grown up with chickens since i can remember but always just hatched under a broody hen. Always rather successfully! Also had a kestrel and jackdaw and other rescue birds. Main reason im hear is i am...
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