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    Bumblefoot issues

    My coturnix are in kind of typical pens with a wire bottom and a slide out poop collection board. I put in several small cardboard boxes with straw to give them spots to hunker down in the cold weather and hide out from each other as necessary. I have had reasonable success with them over the...
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    Bumblefoot in Coturnix

    It seems like I have a bumblefoot epidemic in one of my pens and I don't know what to do about it. I have tried reading stuff aimed at keepers of ducks and chickens, but a lot of it is dated (like back to last year when you could buy antibiotics at the feed store) and a bunch of it sounds...
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    Bloody headed cotrunix hens!

    And now a rooster too. I noticed a bloody headed hen on Monday and thought it was one of the 3 roosters in the pen. We went away for a couple days and now there are two hens in bad shape and even what I thought was the culprit rooster has some blood on his head. The pen has 3 roosters and 16...
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    How old for vent sexing coturnix?

    My new batch of quail hit 6 weeks today and I need to start sexing them. There are 37 birds in this lot and they are all running around one pen. The 15 browns were easy to sex (although only 5 were hens). The problem is the A&Ms. There are so many birds in the pen that I have no idea who is...
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    3 week weigh-in

    So after our first poor experience with locally hatched coturnix chicks (lots of losses, mostly small birds, etc.), we ordered eggs from an out of state hatchery and incubated them ourselves. Of the 39 birds we kept (hatched more than expected so we sold some), we ended up with 16 pharaohs and...
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    Calcium supplement options?

    The game bird feed I can find locally is too low in calcium for layers. I have been adding about a pound of crushed oyster shell to every 20 to 25 ponds of feed, but a lot of the shell pieces seem to be getting left behind in the feeder by the hens. I try bashing up the shell pieces with a...
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    What age to butcher Coturnix?

    So I separated my excess roosters at 6 weeks because all hell was breaking loose in the hen house. The hens with their sole consort roo are calm, and the bachelor pad is calm as well. We are now a touch over 7 weeks of age and the excess roosters are still hopping around their pen. These guys...
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    Coturnix Quail Chicks for sale, Texas A&M, Colorado

    Our hatch out of eggs from an out of state NPIP breeder went better than expected and we have more quail than we can keep. 19 Texas A&M Coturnix quail for sale, $3 each or $45 for the lot. Located in Littleton, please PM me if you are interested. We have a larger group out of which you are...
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    What Coturnix colors do you keep? Breeding?

    So we have our first batch of birds out in the pens (hens and a single roo in the hen house/laying pen, excess roos stashed in a breeding pen/bachelor pad pending a cull) and have a second batch of 3 day old chicks in the brooder. The first batch is mostly browns, with a couple of Texas A&Ms...
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    Introducing the new to the old?

    I have a covey of 18 coturnix in the outdoor coop that are 6 weeks old. If My incubation maiden flight went OK, I will have a bunch of new coturnix hatching starting Monday. When the new group get big enough to go outside, what is the best way to mix the two groups without having problems? By...
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    What breed or cross is this coturnix?

    Different markings than all my other browns.
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    Too cold?

    So my first batch of coturnix will be 5 weeks old on Thursday. I took the heat lamp off them entirely when they hit 4 weeks and they have been in the basement (low 60s constant temp) under an LED light on a timer. I am considering putting them in their permanent outdoor abode at 5 weeks, but...
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    Coturnix weights at 4 weeks

    The kids and I weighed our first batch of birds at the 4 week point today as we cleaned the brooder and switched from a heat lamp to an LED (time to get them to fledge out, the room they are in is ~65F). I have been less than wildly impressed with the stock we got from the local breeder, but...
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    What percentage of chicks normally make it?

    In my first attempt at any kind of poultry, 2.5 weeks ago I bought 28 day old (or so) chicks from a breeder I found locally on craigslist. I am down to 19 today. I expect to make some mistakes as I learn, but this seems like a high loss rate. No idea if these guys are horribly inbred or...
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    How to acclimate growing quail to outdoor conditions?

    I have 21 chicks that are now 2 weeks old. They are in the process of fledging out (although one or two stragglers are still fluffy), and I have started the process of gradually moving the heat lamp a little further away every few days. Ultimately these guys are going to an outdoor coop...
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    Beginner with coturnix - what am I missing?

    We got 28 2 day old chicks on Saturday from a local breeder and now have 25 (mysterious expirations in the first 24 hours). I cannot get game bird feed locally that is not laced with antibiotics, so while I wait for my order of a few bags to come in I am feeding them chick starter supplemented...
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