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I keep mine indoors in big plastic containers on shelves under lights. The top of the container has been replaced with a screen for air. I run a filter that pulls dust from the air in the bird room, which is a small room dedicted to that purpose. The dust is barely noticeable unless you buy...

I recommend keeping males away from the females unless you need fertile eggs. Even at the recommended one roo per five hens the males beat them up. Hens are so much happier and healthier with no roos.

Oldest one I ever managed developed a massive tumor and was euthed at around age three. I think it might have more to do with how inbred they are than anything else. A lot of the fancy new colors are very inbred, and some "breeders" inbred even the wild-type colors by not being careful enough to...

I ordered some live chicks, but I need to figure this out. What is a good place to buy really trustworthy thermometers and hygrometers from? I was using some random ones from Walmart intended to measure the weather; maybe they are all off? Plus I'm open to buying a new incubator. The Hovabators...

well, yeah, so I bought some eggs from someone else and had the same result. So the obvious reason isn't the reason. I haven't used the incubator for three years but I checked it carefully against three thermometers and all seemed fine. If it was fritzing why would they die at 10 days? You'd...

So I have successfully hatched and kept quail for many years. I had a really good covey going and moved and the covey seemed happy in the new place except they were coming up on 3 yrs old and starting to really slow down on egg laying so I decided to hatch out a new batch (from one male, bunch...

So some stupid cop managed to hit a telephone pole a high speeds and turned it into toothpicks. The power company strung a temporary line. And they just told us they are planning to turn off the power for 6 hours in a few days to put a new pole in. Fine, except this 6 hour period just happens to...

I usually use a brand of pine shavings (intended to be used as cat litter) to bed my quail on (smells good, they seem to enjoy digging around in it) and the feed store stopped carrying it and replaced it with something made out of crushed walnut shells of all weird things. I'm quite hesitant to...

I buy an organic soy-free GMO-free gamebird feed off Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NJDCGM0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

They have a big nesting/dust box that they can dust in or sleep in. A piece of gravel paper to scratch around on (rest of floor is wire) and a feeding box where they can dig around in the feed. Plus they can run around these two boxes or jump in and out of them. I give them mealworms to dig for...

LOL. The feed store had these plastic green things for chickens that you fill up with mealworms and the birds are supposed to push them around and the mealworms fall out holes in the sides. Kind of like one of those treat-dispensing balls for dogs. Well, my birds love mealworms so I bought one...

What makes them suddenly turn on each other? I had four courtnix in a fairly large cage, they got along great for several months, cranking out eggs, looked good and healthy and content, and then today I go in to feed them and three of them are beating the crap out of the fourth who looks...

I tried several times to make my own incubator and had horrible results plus you had to constantly fiddle with it to keep it going. Finally just bought a cheap hoovabator with an automatic egg turner with quail rails. It's so easy to use and works really well, excellent hatch rates. Not very...

Good luck. I have a button quail pair that get broody all the time and have never yet managed to hatch a single chick. After a month I take the dehydrated dead eggs away so they can try to return to normal for a bit before they start up again.

So I bought some Rosetta quail eggs from Stromberg's, got a good hatch, and other than the two birds that are clearly Italians (someone must have mixed up some eggs) I'm happy with them, except I can't figure out which ones are males and females. They were advertised as "very docile" and yes...

I keep mine in my bedroom and don't find they smell at all. They are on wire with pine sawdust cat litter in their dusting box and I only empty the poop trays once a month. They do produce dust, but I think that is from the feed. I have a dust removing filter set up that sucks most of it way...

It might work (aside from the occasional "weird" eggs all quail produce occasionally). If you ONLY selected the very best (however you define best) eggs for hatching, over time I suppose you'd get more quail that laid those. I've met a breeder who only hatched out the biggest eggs, and now...

the roux color is a recessive sex-linked, meaning only the males will express it but you won't be able to tell by looking at the females if they carry it.

Did they just start laying? Often the eggs are rather weird when they first start up. Doubles, totally shellless, etc. Then they settle down and tend to just make normal eggs most of the time.

I have several Jumbo Browns who all had the same father and are the daughters of 6 other Jumbo Brown hens. The mother hens all make what you call "splats" eggs, but the daughter hens are all over the place-one makes pretty much all-brown eggs, one makes eggs that kind of change from brown at one...