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I have a tree as well and I’ve been feeding the leaves to my bobwhites, they seem to love it. The coturnix are slower to try them out but it seems to me like they’re getting used to the taste. Let’s wait and see.

Anybody feed moringa leaves to their quails? Here’s an interesting study regarding eggs laying and hatching after feeding them moringa. https://res.mdpi.com/d_attachment/sustainability/sustainability-12-02463/article_deploy/sustainability-12-02463-v2.pdf

You can’t seriously expecting 4 females bobwhite to give you 1200 chicks by next spring are you? Even with coturnix that’s impossible. Please do your research, bobwhite are seasonal layer and they don’t lay as much as cotix.

Ha, I was thinking just like you on how wonderful it would be to keep quails in my garden. That was a huge mistake, I’ve tried everything from birds net, covers, off the ground planting box with bird nets cover on top. Nothing will stop them from eating all your plants and turning your garden...

If you’re just feeding them bird seeds and sunflower seeds only, that’s your problem there. Bobwhite requires high protein diet, at least 28%. I would switch out food immediately if I were you.

I’ve had the very same thing, hatched some ssc eggs and some came out albino and bulging eyes. I also think because of inbreeding for the seller to sell these silver hatching eggs. I’ve read that you can cross silver to anything else and the offsprings should give you some silver and no defects.

Thanks to you I think we’ll name it Zoro lol.

Newly hatch, this one is a bit unusual with the colour. What should I name it?

Pretty sure these are partially blind, they would peck at the food tray but often missed and eat little. One of them I have a huge bulging eye, I’m surprise it make it’s this far.

I’ve got 3 albino looking quail with pinkish eyes, they were a hatch from some ssc eggs I ordered. They stopped growing around 3 weeks and stayed the same size since. The whole hatch are now at 8 weeks. I think genetic defects definitely played a hand in birds stunted growth.

I know what you mean, I’ve put him in a breeder cage with a flock of females. Will keep an eye out to see if he does any male stuff lol.

I was thinking boy just because of the chest feather. I always have trouble with Italian colour. It’s a golden Italian colour. I guess I’ll keep watching to see if he crows.

Sex ID please, I’m thinking it’s a boy right? No bulging at the vent yet, 8-9 weeks old.

Doesn’t look like bobwhite to me, I think those are snowie coturnix.

I’ll accept that as the cause of death. After doing some reading on the disease , the quail display most of the symptoms I observed. And I don’t doubt that the quail been living with the tumor for a few months

It was a female, I believe she was living with the tumor for at least a month. Did not show any signs of being sick until the last 4 days, was grasping for air to breath before death.

I’ve been giving them Modesto Turkey and game bird starter, it has 28% protein. Water is just water from the city. I do give them electrolytes and probiotics mix in their water once a week. I also give them egg shells from the eggs we already consumed. That’s about it, I’m not sure what would...

Just about a year old, I got them from a local guy at around 6 months.

It’s a bobwhite, I’m in central Florida. I keep them in an outdoor aviary. Unfortunately I disposed of the body, here another picture of the lump if it’s any help.

I did, it was just a big yellow lump. If you look at the last picture I uploaded, it looks just like the yellow organ. Very hard and lumpy. It looks like there a lumps or leisions all over the organs.