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    Amazingly sweet roo with a sour crop maybe?

    Hey everyone this as super sweet you g roo seems to have a sour crop. He's so sweet like a calm puppy and I was pettinghim this morning and noticed his crop was like a huge water balloon and wrapped around him like a cross body bag. No hard lump like it was impacted just really full distended...
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    Tough egg to crack

    Hey everyone. We're raising quail now for meat and eggs, but man, how do you all crack your quail eggs?! We can only hard boil them right now as it's near impossible to crack them without shell getting everywhere! We tried on the flat counter, glass edge, even wacking it with a knife edge....any...
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    How to safely swap birds?

    Hi everyone, Thinking about putting a hen up for a swap, but wondering how to do so safely. Should we quarantine the swapped bird? How do you? Is there an article on this already? Thanks
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    Free Easter Egger Roosters, New England.

    Hey we've got some rusty red and grey Easter Egger roosters 13 weeks old, if anyone is interested. We're in New England. Figured we'd offer them up here before inviting them to dinner.
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    How do you guys put your eggs out for sale?

    Thinking to revamp our driveway egg box situation and am curious as to what you guys have found works best for you to put out and sell your backyard eggs.
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    True or false, size matters...

    I've been told by a neighbor with a bantam rooster that he's just too small to mate with average size breeds. He can only fertilize bantam hens or other small breed hens And If this is true, are bantam eggs smaller than say a brahma's eggs?
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    Who's your matriarch?

    Would love to see everyone's leading lady of their flock if you are all up for sharing. We had a big shift on our flock not too long ago, and one of our Australorps stepped up to fill the void and has been conducting herself gracefully at the top of the pecking order. Her name is Oregano, she's...
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    An 'egg-sistential' crisis

    So a funny little story, not about our own flock, but a neighbors... She used to keep ducks down at their lobster shed until one night they all mysteriously vanished shortly after a new neighbor who's wife had a phobia of foul moved in next to the place where they kept them. Missing her birds...
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    Broody quail hen, do we have to separate?

    We've got a broody cotournix quail hen, and we're aware we have to keep an eye on the situation and step in if she does a poor job, however we are wondering do you have to separate a broody quail like you do a broody chicken in order to keep the chicks safe from the rest of the flock?
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    Gender ID Please.

    Trying to figure out a final head count of males and females for proper flock balance, but a few of them we just don't know. Never heard them crow, never seen them mounted. New to cotournix quail. This friendly face in particular
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    Difficulty laying...

    Hi, 👋 We've noticed some of our hens appearing to have a harder time than usual laying their eggs. Panting, standing up partially, bugged out eyes, grunting, usually the girls seem fine, but lately a few seem to be struggling extra, it's not just one breed or age either. All have been laying...
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    Thinking of you all!

    Just a little holler, to say hey! I'm thinking of you all! So grateful for this awesome online community.
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    Anyone else worried about microplastics in their chickens?

    While feeding the flock this morning I had a thought... Should we be worrying about the girls getting micro plastic from the feed bins and waterers? And what of the eggs. Anyone else wondering about this?
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    Incorporation takes a turn.

    We've been incorporating our fully feathered chicks into our main flock,as we usually do with a separate pen inside the main run and coop. Everything had been going great, no signs of aggressive behavior. A week of through the wire visiting, a couple days of free range time together and a day of...
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    Can we talk compost?

    Hi all! I know there are already posts about compost, and as chicken lovers, who doesn't love to add that sweet sweet manure to the mix, however we're trying to hammer out a sustainable compost plan for the community garden that we run, and while we would love to add manure, we're worried about...
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    Is this a genetic feather condition?

    Hello, We have a two year old Easter Egger Splash who has always been a little bit different than the rest of the flock, we've posted about her before. Not too long ago we learned about a specific feather condition typically found in ameracaunas which for the life of me I can't remember the name...
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    Sexing Easter Eggers, rules of thumb?

    So I've been reading around on previous gender identification posts, and it seems like they're are some general rules of thumb for sexing Easter eggers based off of feather color. Can anyone lay them out clearly? We've got 6 Easter eggers and no idea what anyone is yet. All 5 weeks old. We've...
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    Egg eating

    Hi all, So the quail laid their first egg, and being as they don't lay in a nest box, I'm assuming there's an increased risk of broken eggs if one gets stepped on on accident, so my concern is, can quail develop bad egg eating habits like chickens?
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    She's the one...

    So our first batch of cotournix quail are now 4 weeks old, and we've got at least 5 males out of 14. We are just moving them out of the brooder, but we've noticed amidst all the new crowing, that almost all of the males keep pursuing one specific female. They keep mounting her and she's getting...
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    Do quail run off?

    Hi everyone, We're getting ready to build our outside quail enclosure, and I'm wondering if quail try to fly off and never return. We'd love to make them a short a frame tractor style enclosure, but if they tend to want to escape, something large enough to walk in to might minimize the potential...
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