Sorry this is a really bad picture but the lighting was funny in the barn. She is sitting on eggs. This hen is loosing feathers on her back, head and the top of her right wing. I could be wrong but it doesn't look like the feathers that sometimes go missing from breeding. In my experience when...
This is only my second time hatching quail. The first hatch I only got one live bird but many hatched and then died in the early stages of life. Now I have 6 quail eggs that have been hatching since last night(all still alive in the egg) but I don't see any improvement now and it is 9:00 am. Two...
As you can probably tell from my previous threads I am a total newbie to Quail. I have one pair of Brown Coturnix Quail (believe me it was not supposed to turn out that way but most of them died) that have just started laying eggs. I read that coturnix quail don`t usually go broody. I was...
Hi, I have a 5 week old Brown Coturnix quail that has hurt himself by jumping up and hitting his head on the ceiling of the cage. His head is all cut up and I think that I can see skull. I am guessing that the wound has been open for a few hours. Right now I have him in the house in a box with...
Okay, so recently I thought that my chickens egg production was down but today a witnessed one of them peck a hole in an egg and eat the shell and the insides. Is there anything that I can do to prevent this other than collecting eggs more often?
Hi! I am new to Backyard chickens but my family has been raising chickens and other types of birds for almost as long as I can remember. I have used this site before but I am just signing up now.
I am thinking of starting to raise quails and I`m wondering what would be an good breed to start out with. I know where I can get button quails are they a good breed?
Thank you in advance for the help.