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    advise on ill or hurt quail

    Hi So around a week ago we found our 1.5 year old jap quail laying on her side. Not eating, drinking and mouth breathing. We have been nursing her daily with food, water (with rescue remedy) and "physio" (helping her use legs again). She is still not standing up but she is back to her normal...
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    Urgent help

    Hi Blue is a 3 year old female Japanese quail. Yesterday I found her laying on her side. She can move her legs but just falls over. She is drinking via spoon but not eating. She is still laying eggs in her condition and is still her normal self. Looking around and talking to us. Other...
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    SCALPLED MALE QUAIL

    Hii have a very old male cortunix. 4 years old George 4 weeks ago we got him a new gf as his others had passed. She is 18 months old. They settled beautifully then last night she attacked and scalped George They are now separated. George just wants to sleep now. I have him wrapped up on my...
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    Advice on new female and pecking

    Hi all George our 4 year old has been very lonely. So today I collected a new wife for him who is 1 and half year old. We introduced them on the living room floor and they ignored each other. We then cleaned out and deodorised his indoor run. Put them together and he is trying to hump her...
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    LONLEY BOY

    Hi, I have a lonely old cortunix boy, George is now 2 and half years old and outlived his girls. I am stuggling to find an older girl for him (im in Bedforshire uk) I have called local bird places, looked for ads and been on fb. Any ideas? We dont want a younger girl as these are our last pets.
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    Last female passed and her hubby left behind

    Hello We had 4 girls and 1 male originally. Until this morning we had 1 male and 1 female left. Both 3 years and 4 months old. This morning Pip the last girl passed in her sleep. Now just George is left and he is currently saying goodbye. They are pets and live inside with us. My query is...
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    Angry women

    Ok so as some may remember we have 3 quails left. All 2 years old Japanese that have lived together since they were hatched. Recently Pip (Female) has taken exception to George (Male) and his advances. She decided to chase him and peck the ever living snot out of him. Now Marshmellow (Female)...
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    Quail speak

    Hi All 3 have now settled inside (1 male and 2 female japs). However pip ( female) keeps having a manic episode. She jumps in sand bath, starts shouting then runs around shouting. Wondering what that means...
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    Too many males

    Hi, If I hatch 6 or so eggs and get more than 1 male what can I do with the guys? I DO NOT want to kill them but appreciate males cannot live together. UK Based if it helps
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    Bedding tips for indoors

    Hi, Moving our lil guys into an indoor large vivarium in our living room for the winter. Guys are 3 years old and I think they earned an easy winter. Any bedding tips? I'm going for anti bac sawdust with biochar. Any tips to avoid smells?
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    Abusing me

    I have 3 quail pets left. All hand reared. Now when I go outside 1 of them ( female) won't stop shouting at me. My shed is by the little window for the coop. She goes inside the coop from the run to the window to shout. So it's 100% intended and everytime I go there like 4 times a day Could be...
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    Female chasing male

    Hi all My female pip has been chasing George around. Is this normal? She seems to get pissed off with him once every 3 months
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    Angry lil cow

    Hi Just moved all the girls inside. 4 japs. 3 were living together well. Pip lavender and caramel. I have moved them inside into a new home. Added marshmallow who used to be part of rhe group. Now pip is running around making wierd noises shouting and attacking everyone. We told her off but...
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    Freeze to death?

    Hi, Our household is a bit heartbroken today. We found our 1 year old male (George) dead this morning. No signs of harm. It was -2c last night. The other girls (3 of them) were fine and all were in their coop. I am planning to bring them into the house now. But cant help feeling guilty, do...
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    Balding female

    Hi all Just a follow up for advice I have 4 female and 1 male Japanese. The male is in love with 1 in particular. So much the others get a bit of love with tiny bit of neck balding but this 1 girl.... bald under wings and back of neck is totally bald. I have separated him to give her a...
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    1 female jap with bald back

    Hi We have 5 indoor quails. But recently 1 female has a bald spot just below her wings on her back. She keeps getting sawdust stuck to it. Any ideas? Pics to follow
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    Purring quails

    Hi Still new to quails. Is it me or do they purr when they are content ,warm and having a stroke ? Also our male is crowing. But last night he did some wierd ass gurgling noise for like 30 seconds straight. Any ideas ?
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    Wheb all hell breaks loose

    Hi I have cortunix quails. 2 hand raised. 1 male and 1 female. I have 2 new females. The male decides he wants rumpy pumpy and all hell breaks loose. Is if normal for the male to have to chase his hens? He is also very vocal.
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    Curious about our male

    Hi We have 2 home hatched quails that are used to being around us and come out twice a day to sit on the sofa to have strokes and meal worms. Our male seems to shout (crow) at us whenever he sees us. Could this be him wanting our attention or telling us to bugger off ? We also adopted 2...
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    Introduction of new females

    Hi So I have cortunix quails. Of the eggs we got we had 1 male and 1 female. The male overmated the female. So I got 2 more females. We introduced them on the kitchen floor as its neutral. New bird A was lovely and docile and our boy (george) got his end away. Pip or existing female is...
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