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I was wonder what others are doing to keep their birds cool in the summer. I live in Arizona and we have already been getting some 100 degree days. Last year when things got hot I installed a mister system to keep them cool and it worked. The down side is the flies. I raise my quail on wire and...

Eggs is a good one but I would still try to change their feed. Talk to the place where you get there feed currently and see if they can order it for you. I use purina game bird feed. its 30% protein if I remember correctly. Sorry I have a tub i put it in and don't have a bag laying around to...

It has been fun trying to figure out a way to get rid of these eggs lol. Who knew that would be the largest problem with raising quail. So here are my ways to use them. House hold favorite way is just hard boiled. Put the eggs in cold water in a pot and wait until the boil starts. Then set a...

So I have something going on at least I think. I have now had a total of 5 adult birds and 4 chicks die in a one week period and I am not sure what is going on. It started with my Gambel quail, I had 4 together in a cage 2 males and 2 females. One day I come home and one of the females is dead...

I did not do that. I was just feeling around the vent area. Her vent doesn't seem big enough to fit my fingers inside but if you think this is the answer I will lube up and give it a go lol.

I would mix them together now if they are close in age. It is better to get them used to each other before hormones kick in. If you are going to only keep 2 or 3 make sure they are all female. If you have only one male you will need at minimum 4 females.

So I checked her over really good. No sign of a bound egg. Rechecked her legs, but shes still acting the same. Any other ideas?

I think I might have an egg bound quail and I am not sure what to do. She is staying puffed up all the time and doesn't really want to move(unless I put in fresh dirt in there dirt bath bowl lol). When she does go to move she looks like she wants to tip forward. Do you think shes egg bound? Or...

I feed mine 30% protein feed and my quail lay eggs every day. I had a problem with poop stinking really bad that I thought was related to the feed but found out I had a water leak so the poop tray was just getting damp. I though they where having looser poops but that wasn't the case. I'v never...

Are you sure you butchered males? I would think this would be more likely.

Haha maybe I don't have the idea setup. I run my birds on wire. I have 5 birds in a 3x2x1 foot wire cage. I have a dirt box for them to get off the wire when they want to. Might be hard to add new birds to that mix. I will give it a try though lol. I won't keep birds for just laying I can't keep...

Sounds like I should cull the momma bird. I will wait to see if I have a replacement female from my six that hatched last Saturday. My first three that hatched seem to be all males. How hard is it to get the current cubby to accept a new female?

So I have four females to one male. One of my females was born with what I thought was wry neck. She has never been stunted by the fact that she has it and has been a happy bird. I tried adding in polyvis into their water when she was 3 weeks old but always figured I was too late to help. Now I...

What type of quail is it? If its a button I have no idea. If its a coturnix it seems to be too young to know for sure.

No he/she acts the same. Maybe just a runt? I have no clue. The other twos feathers are really coming in and it is behind on that too. Maybe it was a preme lol.

I agree just fix the outside part and now you have no problems. I had a very large barn owl visit us in the early morning once. I just happen to have to be at work that morning at 3am so I was up and could hear my quail making noise outside. I thought it was strange so I took a look out the...

So I finally managed a few eggs to hatch. I had 3 out of 7 fertile eggs make it. They are now over a week old. One out of the three hasn't seemed to grow. It seems to be about the same size that it was when it hatched. The two other birds are now more then double the size. Is this normal or is...

6 females you should only need one male. I would say you have a full diner to eat.

Same here I just assumed that is how it should be since thats how they are in an egg carton. My next run will be with the big end up. We will see if things go better. Only had 3 hatch out of 7 fertile eggs. Three out of the four that didn't make it peeped from the small end of the egg. The three...

I have been doing the same. Hopefully we are not both dumb. The three that made it did peep out the large side. The ones that didn't the small. Maybe there is something to this.