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I just came across this beautiful bird and wanted to learn more about it, but I'm not finding much information. Does anyone raise them? Or know of a good article I can read to find out more about them? Or are they pretty much like the other guineas?

I have had a pair before that did not produce anything even though they were the most dominant pair in the coop. I had 8 nest box and 4 pairs of pigeon. They controlled 4 nest box. Each time they laid eggs, I see the female sitting on the eggs for 5-6 days and then next day I see the eggs on...

Wood shaving - I'm not sure if its true but many people are saying cedar shaving have aromatic oil that are bad for animals. Go for pine. Also, shaving are small enough for them to eat. Eating any wood shaving is bad and they will eat it as they explore their brooder. Maybe causing the...

I have two melanistic hens and one popped out a blue egg two days ago right in front of me. She has only been laying about once a week and they're egg eaters so I can't confirm the other eggs' color. I just wonder if all her eggs will be blue eggs or it's just a once in a while thing?

Just wondering how rare it is for pheasants to lay blue eggs?

I had trouble with possums nawing at my quail's toeswith just one layer of 1/2 inch hardware cloth. I added another layer about 1-2 inch below it and it stopped the possums from getting to my quails toes, but their poop doesn't go through well on the second layer. I'll have to change the...

Your blue print is WAAAYYYYYYY better than mine. My blue print looks like chicken drew it up.

I have about 13 hours of light here too and my quails haven't started laying yet - mine are 11 months old. So... maybe they need 14 hours of light? I read that they matures at 8 weeks old, but that wasn't exactly true for me. At 9 weeks old, my males started to practice crowing. At 10 weeks...

My boys don't "crow" during winter. When they do, it's if I'm late with their feeding and they want attention or when the males get separated and they are trying to find each other - that's a territorial thing. They once woke me up in the middle of the night crowing. I went to see them and I...

Really? 70-80% humility seems really high! It's my first time hatching silver pheasant eggs and I have been incubating at ~45-50 humility. They're due to hatch next week. Should I turn up the humility up high now? I'm using the Genesis Hova-Bator 1588 with an automatic turner.

I fear your females will be over bred.

9 button quails in a 32 sq ft? That's like a 4 ft by 8 ft enclosure. And you're asking if that's enough? I say of course! I house 20 jumbo quails in a 4X8 and they were fine. Button quails are much smaller and will enjoy that much space. There's room to expand your flock. Just remember to...

I'm glad she's eating and drinking. I'm pretty sure she can make it. I don't want to jump into conclusion - what do you mean another pen of birds? I didn't even ask what type of birds you have - i just assume you are talking about quails since you posted under quails. Are your other birds...

My goal with pheasant is mostly to look at. I love the red contrast on their face against their white back and black belly and their black and white stripes on their wings is so mesmerizing. I do, however, want to breed so just sell the eggs to help out with the feed bill. I'm not exactly...

I'm posting my questions here as it relates to young silver pheasants. At a current pet-swap I went to, I saw these two young male silver pheasants. I asked the owner their age and he said that they were from last year and they were the same hatch. However, one of them had significantly more...

Isolate her from the rest. I don't know about the swollen eye, but I once had a quail that was badly pecked at around the skull area. I just sanitize the wounded area and kept her in her own CLEAN cage. Kept her inside the house and she healed in two weeks. Make sure your bird is eating. If...

Congrats! I had 2 chicks hatch last night at 2 am and they wouldn't stop chirping! They kept me up most of the night.

Good information EggSighted4Life. I always get 2nd or 3rd opinion about everything. I guess I should've asked him more details on how he is feeding. He might be mixing it with something else to make a special blend for his chicken or it might be just for growing chicks, etc. I wasn't...

I find this thread most interesting. I went to a pet swap last weekend and met a guy looking for 28% protein feed for his chicken. I was shocked and thought chicken eats a lower protein diet. I don't have chickens of my own so I was only going off of my limited knowledge of pigeons, quails and...