My little 12 week old tuxedo has been acting funny since yesterday afternoon. She's puffed up and looks like she's trying to poo but never does. ..no discharge or breathing issues, still eating a little and drinking. I picked her up and she let me, which is not normal! Nothing broken or cut on...
Hey Y'all, I had 9 quail hatch out on sunday. All are healthy, eating, drinking except one. Well its still acting fine but it's neck is bent to one side. Is this something that went wrong during incubation or something else? When it's older can I still hatch eggs from it or will they all have...
I set 18 coturnix eggs about 5 days ago and candled today...only 8 developed and the rest weren't even fertile. (I broke them open to check). I have 1 male and 3 girls for him but I've only seen mate with one. Plus shes the only one with messed up feathers. What is wrong with my rooster?! Is he...
I'm taking a group of chicks that I hatched to their new home tomorrow. I've grown really attached to one and if it's a girl I'm definitely keeping it. What do Y'all think. I need your best guesses. : )
I bought this chick last week at a feed store. I'm not sure which hatchery they use but the tub this was in was labeled silver wyandotte. I've looked through tons of pictures and my chick seems to be much darker. Plus her legs/feet are dark not yellow.
I noticed the past few days my quail have been itching more than usual. I thought it was bc they had some pin feathers growing but no...This morning I noticed tiny little gnats flying around inside the cage and landing on them. I squished one and blood came out gross!! How do I get rid of these???
It may still be too early to tell but here are 6 of my babies. I hatched them from my SIL's flock. The rooster was a blue ee/cochin mix and the hens were an ee, blue cochin and australorp. I think only one is a pullet... : ( really hope I'm wrong!
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All of my tuxedos are Tibetan and Rosetta besides this one. His feathers have no pattern and are chocolate. I love the coloring but can't figure out what it is.
I just hatched out 2 chicks for a friend. They're easter egger Cochin mixes and came from green eggs. Aren't they cute!!! I just love them, its going to be hard to give them away. Haha
Hello all, I really need some advice...I had a coturnix quail egg pip yesterday morning on the wrong end..I left it overnight to see if it would make any progress and this morning it was the same. It pipped really close to the point so I decided to help it out BC it had been so long. I pulled...
I'm incubating some easter egger mix eggs for a friend. Started with 6. 2 were infertile, 2 were very porous and died around 10 days. The 2 left are doing great and are really rocking around in the incubator. Its day 17, should I go ahead and lockdown now or still wait until tomorrow? I just...
My husband kept telling me I needed to chill out with incubating....I didn't believe him until now, I walked into my closet and thought. Holy crap Lindsay, what are you doing?! I was only supposed to have 2 batches of eggs going but I was sent replacement eggs after 2 out of 27 were viable. And...
I finally finished my large quail brooder! I already have a hutch I'm going to use for my breeders, and this will be used for our meat birds to grow out in. How many do you think I'd be able to fit in here? Its 4x3.
I just hatched out 6 very healthy Texas a&m quail but the last two eggs never progressed. They were actively moving during lockdown but must of died recently. I did the float test on them and there was nothing. I decided to open them and it was a bit disturbing. They both had cross beaks and one...
I have a big problem...I have 8 coturnix eggs on day 12 in the incubator right now and I just received more in the mail...they came from strombergs and weren't supposed to be here until mid February!!! I don't think its good to start eggs while others are almost on lockdown...correct? Should I...
I'm new to quail and incubating eggs so this is going to be a fun and stressful time for me! I recently ordered 24 tuxedo eggs but they're not supposed to be here until mid feb. so...I have absolutely zero patience and ordered 10 texas a&m eggs off ebay. The seller was super fast shipping them...