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Broody Coturnix
I just wanted to share that one of my hens went broody in the sandbox that I gave them. The sandbox is a Chinchilla sand bath house that I got at the pet store. The hens in that cage started laying in the box immediately, and on Sunday I noticed that one hen was sitting in there for long... -
Blind English Whites
I have some English Whites that seem to have cataracts. They get along fine and can eat etc, but they can't see a thing. I can almost touch their faces and eyes without any reaction from them. Has anyone else had this issue? They hatch out normal and seem to go blind over time. I'm assuming... -
Little Ears are Listening
I thought I'd share a cute story: For some reason my boy quail seem to crow when I'm around but seem to be quiet most of the time. They are in the garage, so I can stand at the back door and they are quiet but if I go out to the garage, the crow-off starts. It might be because I talk to them... -
Frustrated and Angry!
My husband and I went on vacation for the weekend. I wrote out a list of things to do for the birds: cage birds, adult quail, and baby quail. We come home and immediately I noticed that the baby quail had no food. I filled up the feeders before I left about 1/2 way, but they were completely... -
Establishing a Covey
A guy at work asked me where I got my quail because he has some friends that own 60 acres and want to establish a covey or two of bobwhites on their property. Is that possible or will they just fly away? He said they tried to raise and release pheasants but they just flew off. They were... -
What did I hatch? Coturnix Genetics Questions.
OK. Here's what I started with. The breeders are from eggs that I hatched from Quaillady. From left to right: Tiramisu, Italian Hen; Dot, English White Hen; Houdini, Dark Range Hen; Tamale, English White Roo; Tiny (smallest chick that of course is now the biggest of the bunch), English White... -
Pheasant Belt?
I hate to bring up a sore subject, but I know some of us can't get gamebird starter without antibiotics because we are in the "Pheasant Belt". Where exactly is the "Pheasant Belt?" I called my feed store to see if I could special order some Purina Startena without antibiotics and he told me... -
Refrigerated Eggs
It's sort of a weird feeling now that I'm collecting my eggs to eat now rather than hatch for the Hatch-a-Long. I boiled up about 40 and as I was laboring over peeling them, I was thinking if anyone has tried to hatch eggs that were kept in the refrigerator. I know we were trying to keep the... -
Quail Hormones Kicking In
My six coturnix chicks are 4 weeks old yesterday and the loudest chick of the bunch started crowing yesterday and this morning. I've been trying to vent sex the chicks but I'm pretty incompetent and I just feel like a perv looking up chicks butts so I'm resigned to beer sexing. However, my... -
Fertility Question
I was counting my eggs before the chicks are even adults and I was wondering how long a female will lay fertile eggs after the male is withdrawn. I have a bunch of different colors (again, this is more hypothetical dreaming since I have not idea what sex each is) of coturnix and I was thinking... -
Sick Chicks?
We have six new coturnix fuzzy butts that are 2 days old. They have food (Purina Startena GBS BMD 50) and water. They are in a rubbermaid tote with papertowels and rubber shelf liner on top. Everything is new. The bator, water and food dishes and marbles were used once 3 years ago for my...