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I gave my quail hen an epsom bath because I thought she had a problem with her vent, but I realized its the preen gland thats the issue. You can't tell in the photo but a bit of her preen gland is visible at the base, why do you think this buildup/infection happened? none of my other birds have...

I noticed my 2.5 year old Coturnix girl Jeffrey is a bit skinnier/weaker than usual, I did a full body checkup and noticed her vent looked kinda gross and crusty (pic attached). She's not very obviously sick, but I have a feeling it'll get worse. I didn't find any injuries, nothing that looked...

Hello people of BYC, recently my lovely boy Jay Z passed away of an unknown cause this past week. I loved having him around to warn the girls of the Hawks, and showing them the lovely little treats in their run. below is a picture of him 💓 Is there anyone near the Los Angeles area that has a...

Hello all, yesterday and this morning I noticed 1 of my chickens was sneezing up a storm. She would have sneezing spells, spaced out but would go on for two minutes or so. This morning when she had one of these, some snot came out of her nose and flung onto the ground and on her face. It was...

Hello, I’m making this post to ask if I should be concerned that my hen is acting very sleepy lately. No other symptoms, she’s eating, drinking, has a good weight and color. when I pick her up she wakes up and becomes aware, as she normally would. She’s very docile. she may have just gotten...

I currently have 4 quail. 1 male 3 females. Background: I got this Coturnix quail hen when she was around three weeks old with her sister. I got them because my rooster had no flock mates left after his last girlfriend died (out of the 3, I sound like a bad quail owner I promise I’m not). The...

I think I’ve been feeding my quail scratch their whole life! Now I’m looking for a good food for my quails, I have three hens and a rooster. If anyone could drop links that would be great.

As I was working I noticed a hawk stalking the quail coop and at one point going down. I wasn’t concerned because my quails live in a very secure coop, I’ll attach a picture. I scared the hawk away but I wasn’t able to carefully check my quails. I just went to check on my them though, and I...

My beautiful falb fee that I just posted about has gone missing. My mom was taking care of them while I was away. Literally yesterday the same thing happened (she left the door unlocked and they got out) but she found both of them. I’m upset she didn’t learn her lesson. Anyways, this morning she...

I got this amazing compost bin last Christmas, and started using it in the spring/summer. I still haven’t gotten any compost out of it, it’s just never looked ready to take out. I’ve left the left side to sit for a couple weeks now (pic with less in it), but it looks like it’s not decomposing...

Hello! I just wanted to share these 2 beautiful coturnix quails I hatched a couple weeks ago. They’re adorable! I love their color so much, what would I call the color? Are they pansy fees? Also they’re both girls right?

I am doing a little preparation/test drive with my incubators before I get some more coturnix quail eggs. I watched a tutorial on how to set up my brinsea mini auto Turner incubators, and the lady said to use the cooling mode, which simulates the hen getting up and leaving her eggs once a day...

I got this lovely lady about a month ago from a meat and egg producing place. She should be around 9 weeks old now. Her and her sister were a little shy at first, but it only took them a couple days to get used to me. Marge, the quail we will be talking about today, has become very stressed and...

I ordered some shipped eggs and had a bit of a difficult incubation. I was able to hatch out two chicks, although one needed an assisted hatching. I was really expecting more babies this hatch, and I want more. Especially because I ordered them for cool colors and only got two Italians. I know...

I'm worried the chicks in there are stuck/need help, I noticed the pip at around 11 this morning, but I have no idea how long it had been like that. Theres a chick that hatched at around 2pm today, pretty soon after we noticed his pip at 11. The other 2 haven't moved, cheeped or pipped any more...

I am a little worried I dried out my quail eggs this morning. I had opened the incubator to add some more water, but a couple hours later I had noticed that some had pipped. They definitely could have been pipped before, as I had not looked. What should I do? Should I just leave them to do their...

I received 18 quail hatching eggs last Friday, five more than expected 😬. This left me needing to use my really bad incubator that barely maintains humidity and temperature. I got a better incubator today, an automatic turner. The other incubator 12 of the eggs are in is a manual turner, so do...

I'm getting some new quail hens today to introduce to my rooster, I have a separate pen all ready for them. I've heard it's good to quarantine new adult birds before introducing them to the flock, but i'm not sure how long. Would the time be different for quails vs chickens? Let me know what you...

I’m looking to buy some cool colored coturnix quail hatching eggs. My favorite colors are Tibetan, pansy, silver, tuxedo or German pastels. The website that I planned on buying from isn’t getting back to me, so I’d check here if any of you guys have any hatching eggs. I am only looking for 12...

Me and my mom have a big ground squirrel problem here, and we also love snakes. We were thinking of putting the two together and introducing some gopher snakes to our chicken run. Would this be an issue for our flock? We only have one Bantam hen, but I have two roosters and a bunch of very...