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    Hen lost some skin in predator attack!

    Last night I rescued my hen from a predator, she had most of her back end plucked and a 2 inch section of skin was lost. You can see the thigh muscle, but there wasn't a lot of blood and it's still in good shape, not shredded or pulpy. I cleaned it and put antibiotic over the muscle. She's...
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    Urban lights and crowing quail

    I live in an urban area, and normally the quail are fairly quiet. The other night one of the quail was crowing all night, which bothers the chicken, who then also crow.(yea, I need to get rid of the crowing chickens before I get in trouble!) So last night I was out late, and put the chicken in...
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    Cochin Roo?

    I'm not sure about the grey one. They're both about 4 months, with the grey about 2 weeks younger. It crows every once in a while, but overall acts more feminine than the red.
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    Using up quail eggs -

    I'm getting 10 eggs a day, which really isn't that much, but more than I can eat myself. My daughter will eat up a bunch, but the boy and the dad aren't so good about it since they don't like hard boiled eggs. I've tried the pickled eggs route, but the other option was a quiche. That went over...
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    Escaping quail! Saturday night escapades!

    Last night I came home a little later than usual and checked on the birds. One pen which normally had 7 birds was empty! So I tell my husband, who grabs a flashlight, and the whole family goes quail hunting in the dark. He was the finder, the kids and I were the catchers. We actually manage to...
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    Free range quail

    How does one go about letting coturnix quail free range? do you clip their wings or what? How much space do they need?
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    Sick baby coturnix quail

    I have one 2 week old quail that just hasn't been growing as well as the others. The feathers are growing in, but are all scruffy, and lately it's been panting/breathing hard. It doesn't walk around much, and I have seen it eating, just not very much. It also gets stepped on a lot, since it...
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    Easy No Build Cheap Homemade Incubator

    Ok, so the title sounds like an infomercial. I'm new to this, and just ordered some quail eggs, and figured I might need an incubator. So after looking around the internet and around the house this is what I came up with: 1 upright freezer - which still works, but not currently in use 1 mini...
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