hi! i have two silkie chicks that i'm raising, and i'm wondering when to start feeding them mealworms? they're four weeks old today, and i've tried introducing mealworms to them twice now, but they don't seem to...want them? one at least pecked at a mealworm but didnt show any interest past...
so i hatched two silkies yesterday and one seems to be doing fine (she's running out from under the heating plate and eating/drinking occasionally and she can walk just fine) but the other one is starting to make me a little nervous; she can walk, but she's wobbly, and she's a little smaller...
hi! so i'm hatching silkies (this is my first time, though i've hatched button quails before) and i bought the same incubator as when i hatched button quails because i had experience with it. lately i've been having issues with temperature, though; i'll go to bed and it'll be at a nice 100...
so im raising two silkies as house pets, and this wouldn't be an issue since i'm home 24/7 (i work from my desk) so i can take care of them usually, but in january we're taking a family trip to disney world for a week and obviously i cant take my silkies with me. the pet safari down the road...
hi !! i'm a first-time chicken owner (i'm hatching silkies) and i bought chicken diapers from mypetchicken for when they're indoors. i've heard mixed information about how to keep up with the diapers (from "clean as soon as theyre soiled" to "clean every three hours" and stuff like that) but i...
hello !! i recently started raising button quail chicks (they're about 4 to 5 days old now) and i'm worried about the boink factor coming into play soon. i have a reptile tank lid to put on their brooder (which is a 40 gal breeder tank currently covered by just a normal blanket on the side...
hi! i bought a new waterer (an ACTUAL waterer from tractor supply) for my button quails today to replace the one i had (it was a diy waterer that involved a watering nipple being screwed into a hole we drilled into a plastic bottle; it worked for a while but it began to leak and i couldnt fix...
hi! i very recently hatched a group of button quail chicks (7 of em) and all seem to be doing fine except one that hatched this morning
i noticed it kept getting stuck in the wire flooring of the incubator (which none of the other chicks had) so i placed a paper towel in the brooder to help...
hey howdy my name's dan !! nice to meet yall
im new here so i guess i should introduce myself with those sample questions! however im actually raising quails so i'll change all of the chicken questions to quails
(1) Are you new to quails / when did you first get quails?
i am VERY NEW to...