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  1. Lilyofsalen

    Quail and Mycoplasma

    I need some information and opinions on mycoplasma. My silkies have it. They got it as a secondary infection with fowl pox. It's been pretty rough and I've treated them with the help of a vet who prescribed Tylan. After talking to the state vet (the state agriculture animal health division)...
  2. Lilyofsalen

    Quail with a Limp

    I have a young hen with a leg injury. There is no blood, no bruising, no bumblefoot, no obvious breaks, no swelling, and the joints have good movement. She can use the leg and puts weight on it but has a hitch in her step. It looks like she is limping up from her hip. She did not like it...
  3. Lilyofsalen

    Silver Scarlet, Silver Egyptian, and Silver Red Range

    I meant to make this thread a long time ago but I did a Scarlet X Silver sex-link hatch just to discover what the silver and roux dilutes together would look like. The resulting birds were beautiful! Silver Egyptian: Silver Scarlet: Silver Red Range:
  4. Lilyofsalen

    Silkie chick adoption?

    Four days ago, one of my silkies, Ice, had a recent successful hatch of 5 chicks but had one more egg left over. I candled and discovered it was alive but behind on development. I put it back in Ice's nest and hoped it would hatch under her but she is up and moving with the chicks and Licorice...
  5. Lilyofsalen

    Mixed aviary

    I recently added 5 zebra finches and 2 doves to my Coturnix aviary. I've also got Gouldians that will be moved into it eventually. Anybody else have mixed aviaries? What are your experiences?
  6. Lilyofsalen

    Another broody quail and chicks

    So this one didn't hatch her chicks but adopted them from the incubator. I noticed that most of the eggs I had given her to sit on had failed about a week and a half in. I had a small hatch going in the incubator so I slid a chick under her at night then I came back about a half-hour later and...
  7. Lilyofsalen

    Vicious two day old coturnix chick

    I need some help on what to do with a particularly aggressive two-day-old chick. It has been attacking the other chicks and making them bleed from the beaks right above their nostrils (and then continues to peck at the blood). I have separated it into a basket in the brooder and dabbed a...
  8. Lilyofsalen

    high humidity during prehatch incubation

    I'm thinking about getting blue scale quail which have a longer incubation time. If I were to put those eggs in an incubator with Coturnix and put the Coturnix into lockdown first, would the high humidity (I up the humidity to 55-60% for lockdown) hurt the embryos of the eggs with a longer...
  9. Lilyofsalen

    Broody quail and community nests

    I have 16 nesting spots between about 25 hens and for some reason many seem to favor the nests of my two broody hens. I don't like having to constantly pull out new eggs from the marked ones and I can't section off the broody nests. Does anyone have some tips for making the 14 other nesting...
  10. Lilyofsalen

    Broody Coturnix hen(s)

    It all started with my smaller wildtype hen . . . I noticed her building a nest and sitting on eggs in the "hen cave" but she was leaving for too long and too often for me to take her seriously. Then I opened an egg that had developed somewhere between days 2 and 3 while making omelets one...
  11. Lilyofsalen

    Using bantam chickens to hatch and raise coturnix quail?

    Could this be a viable alternative to an incubator and brooder? Would this be a good idea?
  12. Lilyofsalen

    Switching Coturnix Roosters

    How long after switching males will eggs hold sperm only from the new male?
  13. Lilyofsalen

    Quail ear infection

    One of my hens has an ear infection. The other ear is red and irritated but doesn't have discharge like the one in the picture. She doesn't have swelling in the face, nasal discharge, raspy breathing, or irritated eyes so I think I can dismiss Coryza (thankfully). I noticed a few days ago...
  14. Lilyofsalen

    Egg piles

    This behavior has just started this morning but I found six eggs piled in a corner. Later I found another seven in the same place and three in another. Up until this point, the eggs had always been scattered about. Is this new behavior caused by hen collecting eggs in an effort to sit on them...
  15. Lilyofsalen

    How tall is a coturnix quail hatchling?

    I am making some changes to my incubator by replacing the lockdown basket with lockdown shelves. Things are real tight in my incubator, the useable space between each shelf is only 3 1/2 inches. The lockdown shelf I am building is only 3 inches tall, I worry about the hatchlings not being able...
  16. Lilyofsalen

    Quail feather crafts! - how to make a turkey

    Here are some little turkeys I made with my family using quail feathers. The pictures should explain the process if any are interested. Anybody else do crafts with quail feathers?
  17. Lilyofsalen

    Problem Quail

    I have this tuxedo from my most recent grow outs (I think it is male but it's still not matured). It is getting picked on by my only wild-type male. This morning I watched the wildtype come out of nowhere and rip a bunch of feathers out of its chest and throat. I don't understand, the...
  18. Lilyofsalen

    A unique looking coturnix

    Meet a very unique bird from my last hatch: He has blue-ish eyes and a tuft of feathers on his head: He even had the head fluff as a hatchling! Now for questions: Do you think if I were to breed him, that his offspring might have tiny feather tufts on their heads or blue eyes? Do you...
  19. Lilyofsalen

    Silver Gene

    I've been reading to better understand silver genetics: https://bmcgenet.biomedcentral.com/.../1471-2156-11-15 In the article, is states that homogenous silver birds look white. Does that mean the heterozygous form of the gene is what we most commonly see today? How would you tell a homogenous...
  20. Lilyofsalen

    Quail behaviors

    When quail are angry or displeased, do they make this . . . how to describe it . . . angry guinea pig noise? It's like a rumble or a higher-pitched growl. Mine do this a lot when I refill their feeders and they rush to the food. How much growling is normal? If you had some quail that did a...
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