We plan on getting 4-5 khaki campbells for eggs next year. we’ve been told to get their housing ready before even looking for ducklings.
Our plan is to build 2 of these 4x8 paver sided garden beds next to each other, one for a house and one for a nighttime enclosure. We’re leaving one paver...
He's in there with 5 egg-laying ladies, is he feeling threatened by the adolescent males next door? (they're full grown now, going into freezer camp in 2 days)
🦟 I collected a lot of flies from our windows and the quail go nuts for it.
We get so many mosquitoes here I was thinking of setting up one of these fan traps and feeding the victims to our quail.
🌱Are there safe herbs I can feed my Japanese quail? I saw some articles on feeding them small...
This is the only adult male I have, he’s in a cage with 5 ladies.
He just started crowing and it’s not the pleasant trilling I’ve heard other quails do, he belts out a “KROROROROROAHHH!!!” And it’s super loud...... song birds indeed :lau
Is this normal? Will he get the hang of it in time?
I got 7 chicks in one brooder under a non-light type heater, and the chicks have been chirping very loudly nonstop for the past two hours.
One chick in particular picks at other’s wing tips occasionally.
Is this normal behaviour for Japanese quail chicks?
Any advice on how to improve their...
We are on 2 acres of swamp in Canada, with a very wet and buggy lawn of about half an acre. Muscovy's look like the way to go for our conditions, but we're close to the road and protected wetland, so if the ducks get flighty we'll have a hard time finding them in all the swamp and brush.
As...