I got a call yesterday from my brother. He said that my dad was in the hospital. He has had a headache for the past two weeks that has gotten worse every day. He made a doctors appointment for today 10 days ago. Two days ago my dad started jumbling his words and couldn't do basic math. He is a...
I just got 4 silkies yesterday and I can't figure out what colour the brown ish calico looking one is. When I brought them home my husband said they looked like mad scientists so we named the white one Einstein, the gray DaVinci, the little black one is Frankenstein and the mystery coloured bird...
the white one is DaVinci then Tesla, Frankenstein and Einstein on the far right.
the two grayish ones have some orange/brown in them too, not sure what it's called. Also any guess on boys or girls?
I need to do some trimming, I have a few aggressive females and an over zealous male and it's starting to hurt the other birds. I'm wondering how much to trim, will it bleed and if anyone has pictures of their birds post trimming. Any help would be great. Thanks
Here they are! how do they look? What the heck colours are they going to be? She had all different colours together so any guesses?
the white one is DaVinci then Tesla, Frankenstein and Einstein on the far right.
I have 8 boys in my bachelor pen, they have been in there for weeks and they seem to have a pecking order and it has actually become quite peaceful. I suck at vent sexing so when i saw them crow in the group pen I marked them and when I had 8 I put them in the new pen together. Well this morning...
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I'm so glad more and more people are wanting urban chickens!
I had 4 boys in the bachelor pen that were 8 weeks old and in my colony pen I had another 4 males that were getting aggressive that are 6 weeks old and now crowing So i decided to add the other boys and there was a minor scuffle, the most dominant bird has a bit of a bloody beak. Well the big...
I woke up this morning to find my son in my bed and automatically knew he was into something last night. I opened my door and followed the little white foot prints
I found that they went all over the house, past the bathroom, where the hot water had been running for hours, through the living...
Well exactly 21 days after I put the bobwhite eggs in the incubator, and when I say exactly that's what I mean, we have a chick out of the egg and the others are on their way. I can't believe it! i put them in at noon and they hatch RIGHT at noon, Not even five minutes off This is so great!
I'll be the first to admit I am awful at vent sexing. We have 6 bobwhites and two of them are white. I'm wondering if there is an obvious way to tell the boys from the girls... hopefully they're both girls because I know we have 3 boys already. Thanks!
Darcie
We have a colony of coturnix that are all the same age, about two months old 12 girls and 3 boys. The other day one of the girls was going to lay an egg (the first one to reach maturity) but she looked a bit banged up so I brought her in because the boys were riding her pretty hard. I guess the...
I have a coturnix quail that has struggled for three days to lay her first egg. She hasn't walked, taken a drink or eaten anything on her own since then. I have been giving her 45 minute long baths, I tried oil in both ends, massage anything i could find but she just isn't getting any better...
1) What type of bird , age and weight.-Coturnix, 8 weeks
2) What is the behavior, exactly.-laying on her left side for the past 2 days, not drinking or eating, lethargic she was making a farting sound yesterday I thought was trouble laying her first egg
3) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken...
I forgot to do this the other day when I signed up. My name is Darcie, I'm in the beautiful north okanagan in british columbia. I have 25 quail, a black lab, a cat, a fish, a three year old boy and a wonderful husband that tolerates it all I've been checking the forums as a non member since...
Our coturnix are about 2 months old and we have yet to have eggs but this morning inside the koop one of the little girls was walking back and forth in front of the nesting boxes with her feathers all ruffled, quite agitated all by her self. I'm wondering what the normal behavior is for the...