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  1. quailmama 82012

    hatching turkeys

    While i am in between houses I have decided not to keep any birds but i will get some when we move into our next house (I am going to get Silkies i think) but my addictive hatching tendencies are getting to me. My aunts son has a farm and she is always incubating, raising for a couple weeks and...
  2. quailmama 82012

    Lethargic turkey chick

    my aunt hatched out two turkey chicks. They are 4 days old. The larger one is lethargic and not eating that much. She sometimes feeds them egg yolk. I told her to try nutrti drench. But I don't know. What should she do?
  3. quailmama 82012

    getting shipped chicks in the mail.

    No, they are not coming in thirty minutes or anything, i am just trying to do some research before i move and am able to get them in about six months. i have a tractor supply, a cal ranch, and a local feed store that have chicks for sale, but i don't know if they sell silkies or not, which is...
  4. quailmama 82012

    does anyone know where i could get silkie pullets?

    i am still debating whether to get Silkies or bantams but does anyone know where i could get them? i only want three and i want all girls so they would have to be old enough to sex. does tractor supply sell Silkie or bantam chicks? that would be the last option because i want 3 girls and no boys...
  5. quailmama 82012

    quail vs. bantam vs. serama?

    so i have been having some bad luck with my quail since i started and i still want to go forward with them. but, if things continue to be too much of a challenge i think i might try chickens. my mom only let me get quail because of how tiny they were, so same applies with chickens, the smaller...
  6. quailmama 82012

    Separating a quail cockerel (?)

    My boy quail is five weeks old so I didnt know if I should call it a cockerel or a rooster, but anyway, my full grown rooster has been picking on him. At first I squirted the rooster with a squirt bottle when the little one started to go bald. Then, I put some "rooster booster pick no more"...
  7. quailmama 82012

    Disaster struck.

    I lost two quail today. One adult quail and one chick. I was gone for a weekend trip and I had my poor neighbors (bless their souls) take care of them. One of the chicks died of unknown reasons and I had to do some major cleaning when I got home. The other adult that passed was taken by a...
  8. quailmama 82012

    making an aviary out of a dog kennel/run

    so this will be my second time making a quail coop. my dad found someone who is giving a large dog run/kennel thing to us. i was thinking of putting a plastic dog house in there for their "coop" and then the dog run could be their run, i guess. it is regular size chain link, so i was thinking...
  9. quailmama 82012

    mysterious eggS

    i think this one came out of the press to soon! some of the shell is missing and none of the pigment is on the egg. this was the first time she has done this so i am not to concerned. (i only have one hen) just thought i would share. :) edit: shucks i just dropped the egg. now i cant show all my...
  10. quailmama 82012

    Chick may be overheating.

    My chick is panting a little but they are only a week old and it is not that hot in there... I am trying to listen to them not what is "should" Be, but this is a little weird! Also, my other chick runs really close to the glass and the glass is not tinted so I think it confuses him.. any thing...
  11. quailmama 82012

    odd poop, 4 days old

    i fed them a little hard boiled egg yoke and beside that every thing is the same. the chick has done it 3x now and it just looks like kindov a fish poop, like long and skinny. am i just being paranoid?
  12. quailmama 82012

    Will nutri drench fix wry neck???

    One of my chicks has a small wry neck. I put nutri drench in the water. Will it fix it? (We just moved houses with them. He can still eat and drink on his own, but he slipps and ends up on his back alot. Will he be okay? (Sorry for so many questions)
  13. quailmama 82012

    moving quail chicks...

    so i am staying with my grandma and i have been checking on my quail 2-3 times a day but i really just want to keep them here.. the drive time is about 10-15 minutes depending on traffic. there are 4 chicks three are two days old and one is almost 2. will it be okay to move them? do you have any...
  14. quailmama 82012

    how sensitive are chicks?

    so last night i was checking on the chicks, then i went to go do something and i came back and my heat lamp was broken! i quickly got a box heater and set it to 90 degrees, the highest it could go. tractor supply was already closed. i went this morning and got it fixed and now the cool side of...
  15. quailmama 82012

    my quail hatched!!

    i saw my quail hatch a couple seconds ago! i was starting to get concerned about him because he was taking longer than i wanted him to, when he started to unzip! i will post pics and videos when i can!
  16. quailmama 82012

    quail hatching early, not sure the cause

    hey everybody. okay, first a little back round. the eggs came in early, with no notice, the day before we were leaving on a trip. so i cleaned my incubator and let it warm up again, and then let the eggs sit overnight. (two had detached air cells) i candled them on day eight and one was empty...
  17. quailmama 82012

    Why does this hatching thing not work for me??

    So, I am on day 21 of my third hatch. All of my hatches have not been successful. My first hatch I kept my humidity way to high. The temp was fine and I got 2 pips and one chick. Sure, they were shipped eggs and it was my first hatch but 1 out of 14? Come on. So our next hatch (same incubator)...
  18. quailmama 82012

    Quail upside down during hatch!!!

    Flip or no flip? This quail chick has one leg out and is upside down!!! What do I do?
  19. quailmama 82012

    a pip! yay!!!

    its day sixteen and i just moved them into lock down yesterday, and i woke up this morning and found a pip! one of the other eggs is rocking back and forth, but i don't see a pip just yet. i have the brooder ready, and i wish i could do something else to help, but i cant and its driving me...
  20. quailmama 82012

    Air cell development?

    I am incubating again and have been trying to look up pictures of what a good air cell would look like, but all that comes up is chicken and duck eggs being candled. Does anyone have pictures of air cells on day 8? I candled today and I think I have 11 chicks growing! So excited.
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