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    Someone explain why I can't hatch eggs anymore

    So I have successfully hatched and kept quail for many years. I had a really good covey going and moved and the covey seemed happy in the new place except they were coming up on 3 yrs old and starting to really slow down on egg laying so I decided to hatch out a new batch (from one male, bunch...
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    Planned power outage during hatch?

    So some stupid cop managed to hit a telephone pole a high speeds and turned it into toothpicks. The power company strung a temporary line. And they just told us they are planning to turn off the power for 6 hours in a few days to put a new pole in. Fine, except this 6 hour period just happens to...
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    Any clue if walnuts are toxic to quail?

    I usually use a brand of pine shavings (intended to be used as cat litter) to bed my quail on (smells good, they seem to enjoy digging around in it) and the feed store stopped carrying it and replaced it with something made out of crushed walnut shells of all weird things. I'm quite hesitant to...
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    Quail violence

    What makes them suddenly turn on each other? I had four courtnix in a fairly large cage, they got along great for several months, cranking out eggs, looked good and healthy and content, and then today I go in to feed them and three of them are beating the crap out of the fourth who looks...
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    Rosetta quail can't identify males

    So I bought some Rosetta quail eggs from Stromberg's, got a good hatch, and other than the two birds that are clearly Italians (someone must have mixed up some eggs) I'm happy with them, except I can't figure out which ones are males and females. They were advertised as "very docile" and yes...
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    Any clue as to the strain/source of these courtnix quail?

    Last year my local feed store had some courtnix chicks for sale, so I bought some. They have turned out to be extremely prolific egg layers, and although the birds are slightly smaller than my Jumbo Browns, their eggs are larger. I have no idea what strain they are: they are white with a brown...
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    Sick button quail?

    My favorite button quail, a white female who is quite tame and will sit on your hand, suddenly fell ill. She is acting like she cannot get up, just kind of lying there panting. We had the power go out for 6 hours yesterday and is it possible the sudden disruption in lighting did something? Stuck...
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    Poor eggshell quality one hen

    I have one hen who used to lay nice eggs, but then she suddenly started laying eggs with squishy shells. I started feeding her a lot of ground-up eggshells, pulverized calcium + D pills, and put her on baby quail feed (30% protein) but two weeks later, no change. The other hems live in similar...
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    VERY early hatcher: what to do?

    I have a batch of Valley quail eggs. They are due to hatch on Thursday night/ Friday. I went to turn off the egg turner today and found a hatched chick. I suppose the supplier (mail order) might have not stored the eggs at a cool enough temp and one collected a week or two before shipping...
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    Scalped button quail?

    For some reason, last night my 5 week old button quails decided to attack one of their cohort. He appears to have no skin on his head, nothing but a bloody mess. I put him into solitary, but should I euth him? Does he have any chance, or is it cruel to leave him to fate? He's just kind of...
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    Button quail male or female?

    One of my buttons came out this stunning color (the one in the corner). I'm trying to decide if it's male or female. It is white under the chin but otherwise??? I haven't seen it perform any obvious male behaviors.
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    Just kind of cool

    A covey of the local wild quail (either Gambel or valley quail, can't quite figure out which) has decided to live around my quail pen. It's just kind of cool. They are often there, hanging out and exchanging noises with the quail in the pen.
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    Gambel's quail or not?

    In our area, there are a LOT of wild quail. All of the locals refer to them as Gambel's quail. I bought eggs from two different providers sold as Gambel's quail eggs last spring and have a bunch of juveniles that I expect will begin laying this spring. Considering that people are selling adult...
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    Quail recall tubes

    You know those one-way funnels people who are training bird dogs supposedly use to "recall" their practice quail to a cage? I installed one in my Gambel's quail coop. My hope was I could let some of them out every day next summer to free-range and they'd use the tube to get back in to the cage...
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    Tips on eating button quail eggs

    Yeah, they are tiny, but since we are getting 70-100 per week I figured we might as well eat them. After much trial and error: about 10 button eggs equals a medium-sized chicken egg, figure 15 or so for a large chicken egg. They are great for cutting recipes down. For example, my favorite...
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    Eating older quail?

    Our out-of-touch with reality local government doesn't let people keep chickens for some bizarre reason, so we decided to go quail to get fresh eggs and meat. After making an incredible string of errors all spring and summer, I actually have a small quantity of quail, both Gambel and Courtnex...
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