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    Membrane covered chick pipped 14 hours ago with no progress

    Haahaa yeah I guess it would be. For us, if we leave them they die. We rescue more by helping.
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    Membrane covered chick pipped 14 hours ago with no progress

    Next time, if it hasn't hatched in about 6-8 hours, you need to assist as they get dried out and can't get out, therefore it will always die. If you assist, there is a likely hood it will survive. Some come out with curved feet, but you can massage them into good feet. We have had a few with a...
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    Topic of the Week - Dogs and Chickens

    We have always trained our dogs to leave and be gentle with small animals. Hamsters, gerbils, ferrets...which was a worry as our dogs are jack russell X daschy and Jack Russell X beagle....snakes, ghekos, guinea pigs, chickens and now our quails. We held them while they wandered around the floor...
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    Winter laying

    No suppliment lighting. But they seem to lay as soon as the weather gets a little warmer. Their housing is spacious with a large indoor area, they are coming up for a year old. Ohhh yeah maybe xx
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    Winter laying

    Our English white cortinex are laying... And it's winter..... English winter... Is that normal?
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    Our colonies!

    Very big... Don't worry they have plenty of room xx
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    Moulting grumpy quails

    Ty!! Makes me feel better haahaa they look abit of a mess bless them!!
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    Moulting grumpy quails

    So it seems its moulting time for bobwhites and calis. Seems to have brought grumpy behaviour too? That normal? They aren't massively fighting, just grumpy pecks to all the others!
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    Our colonies!

    Our colonies right now. We have 4 little calis and a hybrid to add to the cali/bobwhite colony. But then they will be set. The baby English whites are going in the the jumbos.. They doing the look but not touch bit atm. But looking amazing and we got sooo many eggs this summer!! Can't wait till...
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    Hybrid update

    Hey guys, so our bobwhite/cali hybrid is now 7 weeks and settled in well with his mum and dad and family we already have. Took a little more than a week this time. But she has now been accepted. This other little one is coming up for 3 weeks and doing well. Another bobwhite/cali hybrid... More...
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    What is this breed pls

    So if some of you remember, we posted these cortinex eggs... English whites. I said the orange circled one was different. So we had a great hatch of 5....the weird egg hatched and it was this little beauty!!! The others are yellow, with a touch of brown here and there.. Now turning white. So...
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    Incredible lays!!

    So then technically... They did then.
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    Incredible lays!!

    Yeah... The jumbos are 9 weeks old now. So I'm sure they may get bigger. They are amazing!!
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    Incredible lays!!

    First pic is our 3 girl jumbos they have laid in 48hrs. The size of them compared to our cali quail girl.
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    Incredible lays!!

    We thought our English white and cali girls were good layers.....till we got the jumbo cortinex!!!! Wow!!!! Some lay 2 a day!! And amazing sized eggs too!! The very first we broke open was a double yolker!!
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    Lonely white male quail

    Try also putting them in a look but don't touch for a week pen first... Introduce them nicely. Then let them out... They may do better. That's how I got bobwhites to integrate with my calis. Good luck with finding him a companion xx
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    Week 2 of hybrid... And still going strong!!

    We had a long discussion on another of my posts... So if u wanna know more check it out.
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    Week 2 of hybrid... And still going strong!!

    English white/californian
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    Week 2 of hybrid... And still going strong!!

    Larry/luna is doing really well! Fingers crossed... 2 weeks old and looking good!!!
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    Cali bobwhite Cross

    With a bobwhite in her? I kid u not she does a bobwhite call not a cortinex... She does not sound like a frog... Hers is soo delicate and soft
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