I live in a major city and since the beginning of this year, there's been a lot of different people selling quail. Until recently, when some A-hole decided to start mass flagging everyone else's ads to get them removed. Now only a bunch of his ads are at the top when you search for quail...
The chick in the picture below is the darkest one that I've hatched so far. The picture was edited to increase the light so you can see him better, but he's very dark in person. From what I could find online, he might be turn out to be a double blue face with some white highlights. Has anyone...
I've never had a two-tone chick like this hatch hatch for me. I was experimenting because I was only getting silvers or natural colors hatching. I'm glad I removed my one male breeder, because this chick looks awesome and is very healthy!
I've seen a 288 quail / 72 chicken egg plastic 2-tier incubator on Ebay, but people have complained that they're very poor quality. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-288-Quail-72-Egg-Incubator-Hatcher-Auto-Turner-Auto-Alarm-110V-50HZ/123938273991 Has anyone used one of those? I want something...
I'm looking for an incubator for quail eggs that has a capacity of at least 100 eggs and is reliable. I'm using a Little Giant forced air incubator w/ quail rails (120 eggs) and a Rite Farm 1200 incubator (48 eggs). I incubate 40 jumbo eggs and 20 button quail eggs a week in the Little Giant...
I incubate eggs and brood the chicks in my house. The chicks were being quite noisy so I decided I would try to change that. I observed which ones were making noise and tagged one of their legs. If they were making noise a second time, their other leg would be tagged. For the third time, they...
I tried using quail egg scissors initially, but egg fragments end up falling all over anyways. I just use my fingers now and pinch the pointy side to get the contents out. It makes less of a mess compared to using scissors.
I have 2 males and 4 females and I can see that only 2 females are being bred and have missing feathers on their heads. There's always 4 eggs laid everyday, but when I tried incubating them, I found that just over half of them were fertile. I guess the males could be occasionally breeding the...
I happened to be in my garage when the 7.1 quake hit and I saw my quail freaking out right before everything started shaking. Anyone else experience something like that? I suppose they are from Japan, so they ought to know about quakes.
I've been watching my one and a half week old Japanese quail in the brooder and they've been making some interesting noises. I'll try to enumerate each different one:
Normal chirping noise. It's low amplitude and repetitive. They chirp more often when there's extra food / water or the lights...
So I know that quail aren't as regulated compared to chicken or indigenous game birds, but has anyone had any problems with city ordinances or neighbors? I live in a big city where there's concrete everywhere, block walls and most yards are under a 1/4 of an acre. There's been people like...