Work up this morning to this morning at 7am duckling was alive, was alive at 1.30pm. Just got home at 4pm and she died. How could this be prevented? I'm watching incubator for the local high school but have no experience. Another egg has a crack. Do I spray them with water? Use tweezers to help...
Female gouldian finch is probably 14 months old. We suspected mites yesterday and sprayed her. She was looking scabby around the face and acting a bit strange. This afternoon I saw her on the floor in the avairy rocking in the corner. I picked her up (she's never let me that close before) she...
6 days ago we awoke to 4 new japanese quail hatched to our avairy. 2 days later I entered avairy and 1 of the chick was crying and squirming with an arched back. It passed away soon after. Another was crying with its eyes closed. I tried to feed it water and food with a syringe but it died the...
We have a randy male quail and he is just harassing my girls. We originally had 1 male and 4 girls. We woke up to some baby chicks in August and they lived in the avairy for a week but we had to removed and put under a heat lamp when mummy got sick of looking after them. Now we reintroduced...
2 weeks ago we found 7 japanese quail chicks in our outside avairy had hatched naturally! Mummy was a great mother for 7 days looking after them and keeping them warm but after this we kept hearing them cry one night- she was sick of them! After 1 died from cold we moved them inside under a heat...
I have 1 male japanese quail and 4 females. 3 days ago we woke up to 7 little Bay chick's. I understand that this happening is extremely rare. We are all so excited! But since the chick's were born we seem to have mites/lice. Tiny black dots that are giving everyone bites. I filled up a...
Hi! After many years, I no longer have backyard chickens, but instead have Japanese quails and Gouldian finches in a huge backyard avairy. I have lots of questions and need some knowledgeable people to help me!