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I had a chick with the curled toe deformity born back in November. Ive kept her in a box and only haven't culled her because the kids liked watching her grow up. Suddenly out of nowhere shes walking almost normally. Her toes are still wonky but she seems to have figured out how to overcome it.

It doesn't get really cold here. We might get to low 20s once or twicve a year. If it's cold and windy, I'll cover them, but at what temperatures would anyone recommend I start covering my jumbo browns if it's just the chill?

10+ weeks.

The two roos together are from the same brood, and show little interest in one another. But the weird one hasn't gone after hens either. He just kinda hangs around. I'll probably just keep him around until time to butcher.

Nobody? Must just be one of those quirks...

Yesterday I moved the hen that was picking on him to another pen, and added some hens so there's two roosters with six hens in one pen, and one roo with five hens in the other. Everything seems copacetic.

He didn't retrieve the rabbits, just herded them. But he would catch & hold them by just laying his muzzle on them, pinning them down until someone could come get it.

We had a cattle dog would herd rabbits. Pretty helpful and fun to watch too!

I notice my new quail lay throughout the day, mostly in the early afternoon....except one. Whichever lays the blue eggs always lays at night. Is this unusual?

What's the benefits of circulated vs still air?

I was thinking of leaving the two roos together since they don't seem to care about each other, and move the hen to another pen and move some new hens in.

The neurotic rooster will even go to the bitchy hen and hold his head up for her to peck. Masochistic quail?

I got 5 jumbo browns from someone getting rid of them. Three hens & 2 roos. When I got them it seemed like one of the hens was just a *****, chasing everyone around pecking. After watching for a day, I see it's not her. It's one of the roos who acts neurotic. He paces, running back n forth...

FWIW I built two 3x2x1 coops out of pvc, zip ties and 1/2" hardware cloth for $34.

All my hens look like this. Is this not normal for roos to do?

This took well-under an hour to build. It's 3x2x1. Supplies to build two of these came to $34.

I'm glad I ran across this. I'm buildng a first cage out of PVC with 1/2" plastic hardware cloth. I was going to put doors on top, but maybe it's better they're on the front so I can stack? I guess you just put trays between?

PVC & plastic poultry cloth held together with zip ties makes decent quail cages for less than $20 with no hammering, etc.

I always see a square foot per bird recommendation for quail. What about Jumbos? How much more room do they need?

Thanks. Great responses all.