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    Natural or Incubator

    I have 3 Bobwhites 2 female and 1 male my girls are laying went out last night and found 6 in the coop but there is no signs where either of my girls want to sit the eggs. Do these somewhat domesticated quails sit their eggs or do I have to incubate them. I incubated some last year and hatched...
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    Pheasant Coops

    I am getting ready to be a first time pheasant raiser and I have a couple of questions. I am raising them for pets I am going to sell the chicks I hatch and also fertilized eggs. I am planning on keeping 1 rooster and 2 or 3 hens. I do not have enough room for a big on ground pen but I am...
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    Incubator Trays

    I am building a cabinet style incubator I am thinking about just getting a bunch of the fiber or paper egg trays to use in it I will sit them in a frame that has rat wire in the bottom when the eggs are ready to hatch I can just remove the tray trash it lay some paper towels over the wire and...
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    Guinea and Quails

    I know you cannot keep chickens and quail together but can you keep guinea keets and baby quail together I have 1 brooder put a row of wire through it and made 2 sections but I still have them crossing over some how they seem to get along very well together but what is the chance of desease. I...
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    Broken Leg?

    One of my bob hatchlings has a leg problem. His leg just lies to the side sticks out and he does not move it his other leg is fine could it be broken is there something I can do. It still gets around with the leg messed up I tried catching it this morning to look at it and could not get my...
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    Fertile and Unfertile Eggs

    I have been incubating eggs most of the spring I have set over 30 eggs from one guinea in 4 different rounds. I am having a very hard time with them hatching. I have hatched 3 out of the 30. 4 out of the 27 eggs that did not hatch had a chick the rest were just plan unfertile looking eggs. I...
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    Snake problem

    I have had 2 snakes in the last month in my barn think the 2nd one got into my quail brooder pen and took out all my chicks and I have not gotten a Guinea egg in several weeks if I spread some of that snake away around the barn do I need to worry about my birds getting into it or will the smell...
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    Incubation help

    Got several rounds of eggs in the incubator and I am having trouble I had 1 out of about 12 hatch, cracked open the ones that did not hatch all had fully developed chicks in them. When I cracked them open I had the hardest time tearing through the inner membrane. A few of the eggs I have tried...
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    Boiled Quail Eggs

    I had been saving most of my Bob White eggs to incubate but that has not been going to well so I decided to boil some and take for a Memorial Day Cook out. Well I do not know if I did something wrong or what but I could not get the shell off. I would crack the egg and then I could not get the...
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    Sick X moving through other birds

    I have 12 Cornish X Friday I found one dead and it had what looked to be some of its intestines hanging out of its butt got another one yesterday that does not look to good sound like it is sneezing and when I picked it up a white foamy substance came out of it butt, does anyone have any ideas...
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    Not To Good So Far

    Well I just started my 3rd hatch of the year not going to well so far. I had the bator full with 6 different hatch dates. I tried to put them in where I can take out chicks and put in eggs. My 1st hatch was White Leghorns and I had 2 out of 16, opened up the un-hatched and only 3 or 4 had...
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    Bad news

    Well I had my first hatch of the year end yesterday had 2 out of 16 hatch very disappointed. I have 3 more hatches coming up starting this weekend I need to get my stuff together a little better busted open 2 eggs last night had one that did not make and the other had a little feather ball in...
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    Hatching Questions

    I am on lock down had one hatch yesterday and one hatched this morning how long can they stay in the hatcher before I need to get them out and once they start to hatch about how many days should I let them hatch before I decide all that is going to hatch has hatched
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    Sexing Guineas

    I have some eggs in the incubator and should be going to the hatcher on Wends. My question is can you sex them like a chicken by the wing feathers or is there no way to sex them until they grow and really I am not sure about which they are even grown up. Are they really that hard to tell apart...
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    Temp and humidity in my LG

    I just set about 40 eggs in my LG I had the temp pretty stable at 99 degrees when I set my eggs. It is now bouncing all over from 98 to 102 cannot keep it any where near stable. I have it in a room where no light can get to it and the temp in the room stays about 65 all the time. Then to go...
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    Eye Closed Shut

    Does anyone have an Idea when I went out to feed yesterday one of my bobwhite quails was hanging around by it self. I reached into the cage and picked it up well when I went to get it she just stayed there and let me pick her up which is not normal. When I got her she started to kick then I...
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    Turkeys and Chickens

    Ok I am going into the old question can you keep Turkeys and Chickens together. I know about the blackhead and all, but lately all I have seen is people with Turkeys and Chickens in the same cage. Several people around my way are doing this and they say they have never had any problems and if...
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    New Quail Cage

    I just finished my new quail cage it is 8ft long 4ft wide and 2ft tall I have 9 quail in it at this time but plan to add more. I put a shelf in it with a walk plank for them to roost. I also slopped the floor and shelf 2in to allow eggs to role to the front of the cage for retrieval. I used a...
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    When do Jersey Giants start to lay eggs

    I have 6 Black Jersey Giant hens they are 11 months old and they have not started to lay yet. I keep them in a coop with a couple of RR and W Leghorns that are the same age and are laying wide open. I know that the Giants start later than most other birds do because they grow slower but about...
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    Throwing up blood

    I have a 2 Polish Coco Bantam Roosters, when I came out this mooring to feed them, where they roost there was a puddle of blood, looking at them I could find no cuts but one had blood along his neck and chest area and he does look a little thinner than the other one. Does any one have any...
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