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    Baby quail not growing and lethargic

    I recently hatched a few coturnix quail and buttons together, they are about a week old, but one of the coturnix babys isnt growing. The others all are getting feathers by now and are larger. Ive almost mistaken him as a button quail baby a few times. Hes getting weaker and i dont know why? Hes...
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    Can i move a brooding quail and her eggs?

    I have just noticed one of my Females is Brooding. Shes sitting on a pile of eggs and hasnt got off it once, except when no others were around to get some food, and instantly ran back to them when another hen got near the eggs. She sat down and rolled them around under her. But shes kind of in...
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    3 day old baby chick making rasping sounds.

    I have a lonely chick who hatched and her chirping has been super raspy and shes also been sneezing, and her breathing has crackly sounds? Shes very lively but i know that could change very quickly. She also dosnt eat food on her own, or drink. All my other chicks started eating and drinking the...
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    Egg pipped for a long time, not chirping but still moving.

    Im incubating some quail eggs and i have one egg left, shes been pipped for 24 hours and i havnt heard her chirp once. I do see the egg wiggle a bit from time to time and the shell move around the pip, but barely ever. What should i do? How long should i wait before helping.
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    Are button quail harder to tame than Coturnix/Tips?

    I have been attempting to tame my Coturnix quail, but every batch, they always end up skittish no matter how much time I spend with them because I want them to be tame so I can handle them easier. I've just bought some button quail eggs, and I was wondering if they would be easier to tame? Also...
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    Female chases male

    The past few days ive noticed one of my females chasing the "alpha" male. I have 2 males and hes the more dominant one, but lately my female has been chasing him constantly. He hides and runs away, and all the others run to avoid her wrath. She even pecked one of the others when they got too...
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    Month old quail has issues drinking water

    I have a month old quail and i notice, whenever i fill her water (even if its already full) she runs over and drinks a ton but then pukes it up? Or something, sometimes it bubbles out of her mouth and its like spit consistancy, but after like 15 seconds of "choking on it" shes fine. Even when...
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    How often should a quail poop?

    I have a almost matured quail, and i try to hold my quail alot to tame them, but i noticed she poops quite a bit. Id say at least every 30 seconds - a minute, and its very watery. Shes also been panting alot, like half open mouth and her neck looks like its vibrating. Is this normal?
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    Female being singled out?

    I have a female who ive noticed is being picked on way more than the others. I have 1 male and 4 females. One of the females is way smaller then the rest, even though she eats and gets water, but whenever im feeding them i notice the male only targeting her, and shes even flown out of the cage...
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    Bloody beaks on my female quail?

    So ive noticed with some of my female quail, the tops of their beaks always have crusted up blood? Only on the very top, it dosnt block their nostrils. Its happened a few times and i dont know whats causing it. Any ideas?
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    Wing sexing baby quail?

    So i wanna figure out the gender of my baby quail at a young age, because i want to hand raise 2 females to see if i could train them (with simple commands like come) because usually when i pick one to raise, it ends up being a male and then turns mean when its about 4 weeks old. (No matter how...
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    Lonely baby quail please help

    So i have a little quail who hatched alone out of her batch (i posted a thread earlier about her making popping sounds but she was fine and active then) but now whenever i pick her up and set her down she just kinda closes her eyes and falls asleep. Usually she would run around and chirp until i...
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    Baby quail makes popping sounds?

    So i have this lonely chick because the other babys in her batch died, so shes the last one but ive noticed sometimes she opens her mouth and little clicking sounds come out? She also sometimes makes these like honking sounds randomly which i think are sneezes. Heres a video of it. You can hear...
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    Baby quail wont open eyes

    So i hatched a little baby quail, and she was doing fine for 2 days, her eyes were open she was chirping and running around, eating and drinking but now she stopped. She will hardly open her eyes and dosnt move, she hardly chirps unless i put her down after holding her. I dont know what to do. I...
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    Can a quail die of lonelyness?

    So i have 3 baby quail that are 3 weeks old and ive kept one of them seperate coz i wanna raise her (or him idk the gender but i just call it a her) to be a trained inside pet instead of putting her outside and i have a really strong bond with her, but she has seen the other baby quail and now...
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    Female quail foaming?

    So im pretty sure my quail is a female, above her vent i can feel something hsrd and smooth like an egg about to be laid, (i can sometimes feel it on my other female quail) but shes foaming as if shes a male? What does this mean? I was researching and im wondering if it was transfered from a...
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    Can you crossbreed quail?

    I was wondering if it was possible to breed different types of quail, such as the coturnix and the california quail, or button and bobwhite. Not just house together, but have them mate and get like mixed baby chicks?
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    Weird 4week old quail behavior

    So, i have a quail thats about 4 weeks old, and ive noticed when she falls asleep in my hands, when i pet her mostly on her head and sometimes around her wings she like twitches and stretches her neck out really far and it kinda flops for a while and when i keep petting her it feels like her...
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    Baby Chick pecking other chicks

    Soo, i have about 2 week old baby quail, and one of them i noticed was pecking the other baby chicks backs. I thought it was just a funny peck st first, but after looking closer at a few of them i realized it was bad. I immediately seperated them, (put a cardboard seperator in their brooder) and...
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    Taming Baby quail

    So ive hatched some baby coturnix quail, they are about 5 days old, but some of them i didnt instantly connect with. One after another they all started popping out of their eggs so they kind of got to know eachother first, and for the past few days ive been more focused on the few that had foot...
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