Do you think it's loud enough to upset neighbors through the floor
I found a 40 gal tank at Goodwill for $15 last weekend so that actually speeds up my quail timeline quite a bit. I thought I'd have to build something. It still needs some work. All the silicone needs to be redone. Plus I need a...
Ooh, another rodent thing that I would love opinions on from people who already keep quail! For animals that aren't happy being handled, I've seen owners train them to go into a cup on its side and then you can pick up the cup to transport to another cage. Rodents are smarter than quail I think...
I love society finches so much. They are lovely. But I do not have the space right now.
Re: cage cleaning , take this with a handful of salt because I don't have buttons yet, but I want a naturalistic cage setup and I've been watching a lot of hamster videos on YouTube. For those cages they...
Hello, I have kept chickens and finches in the past but I do not have any birds right now. I would like to get a pair of button quail. They'd be apartment pets (I will not be hatching any chicks) and I'd like to build an elaborate habitat for them of the kind some people make for hamsters with...
When you say "not laying eggs," do you mean egg bound? Like there's an egg there and she just can't push it out? I just had that with my finch and it's pretty serious. I'm not an expert but the advice I found in when trying to help my bird was to try massaging the vent with vegetable oil or...
I have a zebra finch who became egg bound yesterday. I don't know how old she is but I think she's pretty physically mature. I've had her 6 months and she had her adult markings when I got her.
She laid 2 eggs about a week ago without a problem. There wasn't a good nesting place in the cage...
I got a pair of zebra finches recently. We had them when I was little and I loved them. I have been doing internet research and most of the sources with information about their care seem pretty canned. I think I have the basics down (diet, temperature, bars of the cage close enough together that...
I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I'm having a similar issue and I figured asking here might be better than starting a new thread. I live in the middle of town and I kennel my bantam roo in the garage at night and have done since I moved in. It's legal to have him here, and I haven't had...
So I seem to have bad luck with my chickens. I started last year with 10 straight run chicks. I was prepared for a 50/50 roo/pullet split. I got 7 roos. Then (we were still working out coop security issues) a predator got in and got one of them. At 7 to 3 odds were good it'd take one of my extra...
I'm in south eastern Washington and I'm looking for a bantam frizzle hen (any color) and a silkie hen (preferably gray, blue, or splash). I'm not interested in chicks, hens who are already laying are ideal. Let me know how old, how much you want for them, where you are, and send pics if you've...
So I came home today, let the chickens out and noticed a bit of a scuffle going on in the nest box. One of my roos was bugging my broody hen. The eggs are due to hatch around yesterday or the day before but there hadn't been any signs. I shooed the roo outside and looked in the box and noticed...
Thanks, since I'm not sure if any of the eggs will actually hatch I figured I'd leave her alone until they did.
I don't think the cats are particularly neglected. There's a crazy cat lady on the corner and they all belong to her. They appear to be well fed, but they're just loose all over the...
So I've got a broody hen sitting on a pile of eggs, and tomorrow is day 21. I really don't know how many of the eggs will hatch because I'm not sure how old they were when I gave them to her. She started sitting on some golf balls and then I found a large cache of eggs that weren't being laid in...
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No no! I don't have a place to put chicks right now! Though it'd be easy to build another cardboard brooder like last time.... No! I will wait.
Also I like the eggshell idea.
Ok, thanks. I'll pick some oyster shells up tomorrow at the feed store. I want to get some other stuff anyway (and an incubator! but I really really shouldn't yet. If I can hold off for a month...).
Hi everybody! I'm kind of a chicken newbie over in the south east. Walla Walla area. I've got a little flock of bantams, and I'm about ready to give half-ish away so I can get/hatch more now that it's spring. I was also thinking about rescuing a battery hen or two. I've seen stuff around this...
So I'm a newbie. I have one hen who's a year old, but the others are all round about six months. The past couple weeks combs have been getting bright red and the weather has been unseasonably warm so this week I switched them to layer crumbles. I just had a feeling. Next morning I had two eggs...