i am housing 3 female and 1 rooster(all couturnix quail) in a 4feet square small aviary and all the hens run away from the rooster is kind to them only just showing he's the boss but when ever they meet the rooster every hens starts to run way from
him and were flying high up and then trying...
here's my new setup for my balcony small aviary...any suggestions on arraging waterer and feeder for both the quails and the zebra finches?? i will pit sand for the bedding and add some more rocks to give it a natural looks and yes shelters for the quails...btw i will be housing 3 female and 1...
there was a power outage for 8 hours for two days respectively and it's now late day 17. I could hear her chirping and the eggs keep on shaking most of the time. Her mother is given calcium supplements and i even saw calcium deposit on some of her eggs. should i give it one more day or crack...
one if my incubated quail egg embryo developes near the aircell just below the line of the aircell..i saw this when i candled this forenight..is this normal??
i was trying to let my quails go broody but with 14 eggs she did not yet sit on them..so i collected all the egg and was planning to scrambled them..but when i cracked some eggs there was a thin strain of blood on the yolk what could this be?? is it they were sitting on the eggs? or the hot...
hi guys..this is singsong my very first surviving quail amongst my first hatchings...sadly as i was cleaning the incubator room..i suddenly heard my quails flipping their wings and as i quickly rushed out to see what was going on ..then 'this happen😞..SINGSONG' took her last breath in the hands...
in my previous thread i talked about embryo death inside the shell due to earthquake and today i was right..i opened the shell and they were all dead..what do you guys think could be the cause of their death from the picture
last night there was an earthquake at 5.6 magnitude and today when i candle the eggs all have died i guess no moving at all..is it true that sound waves or vibration can kill chick inside the egg?
last night there was an earthquake and when i candle the incubating eggs all have died i guess no moving at all!! is it true that when an earthquake occurs chicks died inside the egg??
under the egg tray i put one rectangular shape tray with a sponge and water and near the heat emiiters i put a square bowl with sponge and water too..is my hygrometer not accurate ?? well the temperature are not the same with this device and my other thermometer which i put at the side
i've just finished building my styrofoam still air incubator and added the room temperature water and after a mins condensation started to develop..what shall i do?? the humidity level is now 88%(no eggs inside yet)
i am in an urgent since my last homemade incubator is not accurate so i'll post it here too..i am building anew homemade incubator with a styrofaom cooler and the size is 1feet 3inche long, 1 ft wide, 1 feet tall..it is supposed to be a still air incubator and i have a dimmer switch for...
where will i put the heating lamp and the eggs and bowl of water for humidity???..my incubator measures 1feet and 3 inches long 1 feet wide and 1 feet tall