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    Six laying hens in need of rehoming - Free

    Unfortunately we will be moving soon and unable to keep chickens at our new home. We have a 1 year old Easter egger and 1 year old Splash Marans, and the Green Queen, Gold Wyandotte, Black Copper Marans, and Black Ameraucana are under a year old and started laying recently. All are healthy and...
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    Bonded male, not so bonded female...

    This might be only case ever of a male quail having too many hens... So recently I noticed my only male becoming extremely territorial towards his hens. He wasn’t mating them, just chasing them until they ran to the other end of the pen. Then I noticed he was following my jumbo Pharaoh hen and...
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    Prolapse in quail, again! Help PLEASE!

    I’ve dealt with prolapse in coturnix before. My Italian gold hen prolapsed over the summer and fortunately, she is extremely sensitive and stopped laying for months either from stress or being kept indoors which saved her life. I was able to replace the tissue in her body and within three days...
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    How to force a quail to molt?

    Two of my hens are determined to lay all through autumn it seems which means they haven’t molted into their winter down feathers which they will need to survive outside. I’ve noticed a little weight loss in them as well. How do I get them to stop laying and molt? They’re already getting way less...
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    Male Coturnix quail rolling eggs!

    Sometimes I notice a hen will roll a recently laid egg around or a hen that just laid or is looking to lay will steal nearby eggs and make a clutch. Mine are in a ground pen and also grab straw or pine needles and sometimes make a makeshift nest. I find getting quail to raise their own young...
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    Freezing temps w/ molting & injured quail

    Two of my hens lost their head feathers in a pecking incident last week and at least four are in a very naked stage of molt, wings + back are essentially bare. A few of them are shivering, and it’s going down to freezing tonight. Unfortunately the coop is also got a bit of damp soil, and of...
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    Cot. Quail egg bound?

    One of my Italian coturnix hens who is too good of a layer for her own good (1 a day since early May) just quit laying. However feeling her vent/belly area she still seems to have an egg there for the last two or three days. Usually when I pick them up in the morning their belly has a firm lump...
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    Vent prolapse in coturnix from low calcium?

    Found my smallish Italian hen with a prolapse a few days ago, I gave her a quick clean and pushed the tissue back in and she was fine until the next day. Thankfully none of the other birds pecked at it as there was zero bleeding It seemed like every time she would defecate or lay an egg the vent...
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    Fee gene inheritance?

    I decided to breed a wildtype pharaoh rooster from a mixed color MyShire hatch over a very interesting “dilute” hen that I got off of some eggs sold on Amazon to see if I could recreate that lovely color. The only thing I can find that looks similar is on an Australian site, and I’m in the US...
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    Lump on a quail’s head?

    This hen got scalped pretty bad by a rooster, or so I thought. Maybe she actually got scalped by hitting the wire roof, as some quail continued to show this even after I culled the roo. I’ve installed a soft mesh barrier which so far seems to keep them from damaging themselves . Anyway, I...
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    Hen got mild scalping, how fast do they heal?

    My special hen Boots (had to fix her crooked toes) seems to be a favorite of the rooster. My rooster is actually the sweetest thing, he doesn’t mate any of them too roughly and was the best behaving boy out of four. I guess he’s just inexperienced though and pulled too hard. Two days ago I...
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    Pics of my Quail in their new pen

    Finally got my birds outside after treating some foot infections and securing their pen! They took to it immediately and starting tearing up the place. Integrating the two hatches worked pretty well although there is still some pecking going on between my older Italian sisters and the upstart...
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    What color silkies are these?

    My friend and I hatched some silkies from Better With Thyme farm. Two of the BBS labeled eggs hatched and two of their mixed breeding flock. They advertise that their hatching eggs could be BBS, Porcelain, and that they might be Partridge but that they have no pure Partridge birds anymore. Is...
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    Albino and Leucistic in the same hatch?!

    My last Coturnix hatch from MyShire had two all-white chicks. One turned out to be albino, and he was definitely fully blind and couldn’t eat or stand at all, so I had to cull the poor little guy. The other one was definitely not albino, and it has grown into a pure white bird at 4wks. It...
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    Bumblefoot?

    While their coop is being added to to accommodate more quail, my first group of coturnix have been staying inside in a box with some wood shavings. They’ve been pretty happy campers so far but over the weekend one knocked over the water while I was away and they were sitting on nasty wet...
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    Quail Questions!

    I hatched a batch of six quail about two months ago and they all turned out female, and since I kept them inside a bit too long and gave them plenty of mealworms three of them are adorably cuddly around people. Since the first batch was doing so well I hatched another group, this time from...
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    Wryneck in hatchery silkie

    Hello, new here, my friend and I have got a small flock of six white hatchery silkies (8 months old), they’re definitely “pet quality” but most of them are very healthy and active. However, the top pullet suffers what I believe is wryneck from a vitamin deficiency. She is also the only silkie we...
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