4 year old pet coturnix quail, male, with golf ball sized abscess on wing. Plans on aspirating with a sterile needle to remove the pus, but need to know best type and dosage of antibiotic. Local tractor supply has penicillin, but is there a better option? Let me know what you all think is best...
Hello, I have a two week old leghorn chick with a slipped tendon. The chick is not technically mine, I took him in to be a companion for another chick that had severely bent toes and the person did not care to fix unfortunately. The chicks were going to be returned once the foot issue was fixed...
1) Male coturnix quail, healthy weight, about a year and a half old.
2) Very swollen eye with discharge, other eye less swollen but still with discharge. Nasal discharge as well i think?
3) I handle them daily and i only noticed last night? Could it have happened that quickly?
4) All of my other...
My zebra finch, Zachary, is around 5 years old and he has unfortunately lost his mate and his budgie friend (one due to illness, the other due to old age). I need to find him a new companion, and am wondering if i should get a male or female. I have read that they will bond with another finch...
This poor coturnix quail chick has had a very rough start. He is two or three days old and doesnt look underweight, but he has hardly eaten yet which is worrying me a lot. He actually was trying to hatch for two days before i finally decided to help him hatch. I ended up chipping away at the...
Hello! I recently purchased a Nurture Right 360 incubator because I heard great things about it. I plan on hatching some quail, and the eggs should be here soon. I just read something about this incubator not being good for quail eggs. Is this true? Im worried I purchased this and I will have to...
Hello! I have been planning on incubating some more quails for a while but have been very busy. Finally I am able to hatch them, but I haven't got an incubator. I asked about good incubators before, and was recommended the nurture right incubator or brinsea types. Those look very nice, but are a...
This is a 1 year old male coturnix quail! He is somewhat active (tries to eat and drink, fights back when i pick him up etc) but he is unable to stand and just flopping around on his side. He started this a day ago i believe. The other birds seem fine but i am going to thoroughly check them over...
My last hatch was done using a borrowed incubator, and id like to buy one for myself now. I know this is more of an opinion than a right/wrong answer but what do you guys think is the best incubator? I am really having trouble deciding.
It has been a year now since I hatched out my coturnix quail. Hatching was one of the best experiences ever. They were so cute and lovely. 11 out of 12 birds hatched, but I sadly lost two chicks that were born with deformed eggs. I worry that was my fault, and it was very hard because I was very...
I had a pair of coturnix quail who were the tamest out of all of my quail. I could hold them without any fuss, I could leave their coop doors open and they wouldnt care. My other quail (despite handling them since hatch) always make noise and go crazy flying against the side of the coop/hutch...
I previously posted a thread about my quail having stopped laying, but I have recently discovered six eggs she was hiding in the Aspen shavings. It seemed like a 'nest' so I gave her a bunch of hay and put the eggs in it and she immediately sat on them. She has been sitting on them for about a...
I have been wanting to incubate some of my single hen's eggs, hoping to get more females. I was even considering trying to see if she would go broody. She is currently kept with one other male, but they seem to get along very well and I don't see any signs of stress, etc. She only lays every so...
I recently began a project to breed meal worms as a food/treat/enrichment source for my birds.
Supplies
-3 tier pull out drawer
-meal worms (250, amazon)
-oats for bedding
-carrots/other veggies for food/water
-fine mesh for each layer (separate eggs)
Firstly, I cut out the bottom of 1 of the...
1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.)
6 month old male coturnix quail.
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
Breathing heavy, I was handling him when suddenly a ton of mucus started coming out, held him upside down until it all...
I was building a new quail fence and cleaning their waters at the same time and realized it was 415 and I had to be somewhere at 430, so I just rushed inside, leaving to coop door open. Return 3 hours later, 3/4 quail gone. Search, find one, chase around the backyard through the fence and into...
Anyone here make their own cat food? I was hoping to get a local free range chicken and begin making my own cat food with proper vitamins, etc. I want my cat to be healthier and to get a humanely raised chicken.
Tips? Tricks? Recipes?