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First off, I know it's unlikely she'll stay on the eggs the entire time. It's only been three days so far. She's a tuxedo hen in an 11' X 5' aviary with a total of 18 coturnix. They have cardboard nest boxes on the dirt which are covered by dried, tangled masses of vines and have a big boulder...

I currently have 3 hutches that are about 2'X3' each. I have a total of 3 males and 8 females right now. (One male per cage) To hopefully make my life easier and their life better I plan on building an aviary that will be 14' feet long and 4-5' wide. A two foot wide section will be for a "safety...

My parents' neighbors have peacocks and gave me some eggs. My incubator is full and I don't think my neighbors (or husband!) want me to have peafowl. I believe they are IB's. They are definitely some type of blue/green if not IB's. Can't vouch for fertility, but they were laid in the past 5 days...

Here is my 15 month old SLW. She has never molted, and I was looking over some of her scraggly feathers and noticed her eyes are wonky. I lost a polish to what I believe to be regular Marek's (couldn't have a necropsy done to confirm, they cost a fortune here--- as in hundreds of $$) about 8...

I wanted some opinions on my chosen course of action here from people with more experience in this dept. I have eight 12 week birds in a small pen inside my main chicken pen. This morning I noticed one of them was fluffed up, tail down, kept closing her eyes, mouth breathing and a little...

I have a 2.5 year old hen that I am pretty sure has scaley leg mites. I covered her legs with vaseline two days ago, found some tea tree ointment and covered her legs with that today, I'm thinking I might want to use a thinner oil to really get in there good. I'm not comfortable with using WD-40...

I have a 2.5 year old RIR that has never actually gone through a full molt. As you can imagine she looks pretty scraggly. I noticed a week or two ago that she is looking mighty bald on her head and her chest looks rough too, but I'm not seeing the piles of feathers laying around that I'm used to...

I thought I had seen where at least one of you has been selling quail to restaurants. I know there are some regulations and all that which will have to be sorted out, but I may have someone that's interested in buying a batch from time to time for a special menu item (maybe 50-100 birds?). My...

Like, what tool (sponge, scrub brush...) and what cleaning solution? I was thinking of using vinegar and a scrub brush. How often do you clean the wire floors? I have a bird that looks like she has a mild case of bumblefoot. No limping yet but a small sore and a little swelling-- about the...

I really like the sound of the coturnix crow, but this morning he was going from before dawn until at least 6:30 with literally no more than 5 seconds in between crows. I'm pretty sure it's just one of my roos that's doing it. Now that he's started this, is he going to do this every morning...

I have a Polish that started limping a little over a month ago. She was getting along fine, we thought maybe she missed when trying to get onto her perch at night, got injured and would get better. Today she just kind of sits on the ground. I picked her up, she is very underweight. She never had...

I had 4 females and a male coturnix in a pen that's about 2'X4' and this morning when I got up the male looked like he got the crap beat out of him. He had a bloody bald head and his eyelid was bleeding. Later in the day one of my females had a bloody cere and a bleeding foot. I think the foot...

I just wanted to update that the theory in Monarc's info page about tibetan roos having black beaks with the hens having the dark brown ones seems to be true with my birds (worked for the tuxedos too). Does anyone have an example of a tibetan that this is NOT true for? Maybe then we would just...

Who knew those birds were *so* good at flying. One escaped when I was switching out something in their pen. Any other time that's happened I just reach down and pick them up and put them back. This time that thing was all the way across the yard and then over the fence and off to who knows where...

I went out to give them feed this morning and as soon as I opened the pen door and got the feed dish out one of my a&m's started making a noise at me that I can best describe as a quail trying to impersonate a machine gun. It went on for about 2 minutes straight. What was this?

It seems like when I go by the quail cages the A&Ms, tuxedos etc freak out, while the pen with the goldens and the browns stays relatively calm. Am I just imagining things here? Have any of you been successful with crossing jumbos with other strains (a&m for example) to get larger birds? I was...

I'm at the very beginning of day 18 for some EE cross chicks. All of the EE/Barred rock chicks pipped at some point during the night (which would actually be late day 17) The EE/EE and EE/Leghorn eggs are all unpipped. I haven't even taken them out of the turner yet... My temps were running a...

A bourbon red was just dropped off in someone's front yard and needs a new home. I'd like to be that new home, but I've never had turkeys and I have a few questions. 1. She would be with chickens and muscovies. I know about blackhead and also that people in my general area have been keeping...

I have 5 week old A&M's, Tibetans and tuxedos in the same pen. There hasn't been any crowing nor egg laying yet. The pen is overcrowded right now until I can sort out my extra males (there are 9 birds in 6 sq feet of space) . I want to do this ASAP! I noticed this afternoon that two of my A&M's...

I've been reading a lot about Marek's because I have an 8 month old polish hen that recently developed a severe limp. She's had it for about two weeks now. I checked her over and saw no signs of injury or bumblefoot so I thought maybe she just hurt herself being clutzy (she is a polish...