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    Float ball indicator for water bottle?

    Yes, but all of them contain metal and have places that you can’t really clean out. I used to fish constantly. Like— dawn to dusk from age 4-24 until I got too busy with kids who weren’t interested 😣. But I did just find creatology “sensory balls” that are available at different craft stores...
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    Float ball indicator for water bottle?

    Oh i suppose, i didn’t really think of that. The problem with plastic bobbers is that they are not entirely waterproof, so may harbor mold or bacteria if used for a while.
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    Float ball indicator for water bottle?

    I was thinking about how hard it is to see the level through those somewhat translucent but really too opaque white quart water bottles for poultry. I am using them until i get a watering system set up in my quail cages, but I am often right up next to the cage and can’t see the water level...
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    Coyle chick wanderers aimlessly, pecking and sometimes squawking

    Yeah, it wasn’t any better this morning, added vitamin boosts weren’t helping. and I just don’t have time to keep worrying about it this next two weeks we have community choral concerts On back to back weekends. So I asked my husband to cull it. So there are seven left. As you note It...
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    Weak baby quail?

    Hope it’s doing better, sometimes you get one that just won’t thrive. I am having that issue with one quail that may not make it after a week and a half (the last one to hatch). So scanning the threads for ideas. It’s subtle right now but seems aimless and going through the motions like it’s...
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    Failure to thrive? Wry neck?

    How did she do?
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    Coyle chick wanderers aimlessly, pecking and sometimes squawking

    OK, my second batch of quails are about a week and a half old and the youngest one had a little bit of curly toes and I put tape on them for a day, and some electrolytes in the water and seemed to be doing ok until the last couple of days. It seems to have slowed its growth and it hasn’t figured...
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    Our neighbor farm wants fox for killing rats

    I think they typically move their litters around a lot between several den sites if I’m not mistaken. I have heard of the human urine trick. Not sure how well it will work but If he’s worried about being seen he could do it in a bottle all day and then disperse as needed. I think citrus is...
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    Coop ideas for new Quail parents

    My husband got a lot of ideas from the coturnix corner YouTube channel for easy to clean cages, but they’re for inside a shed or garage. I’m not sure if he has ideas for an outdoor version- it gets super hot here in MN also in summer and plenty of storms usually too.
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    Yay it worked ! (First baby jumbo coturnix)

    Heh, we have 21 in the incubator (I accidentally broke one or we would have 22) so hopefully more girls than that!
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    Yay it worked ! (First baby jumbo coturnix)

    Here’s one of the boys. We also have one boy with a crossed bill so he will probably go in the freezer once he’s big enough. As well, most of the rest of the boys. Poor guys!
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    Yay it worked ! (First baby jumbo coturnix)

    Here’s our single lady
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    Yay it worked ! (First baby jumbo coturnix)

    On what in particular? I am having to start /make another brooder tub because these guys are big enough now that they are overcrowded. Hubby has to make a new lid like the one he made for the original. He’s also working on building those stacking cages that have the automatic egg roller trays...
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    Yay it worked ! (First baby jumbo coturnix)

    I really have never had much luck with finch eggs in a rotating incubator. Well, really in any incubator — I have in the last few days if they abandoned them during lockdown, sometimes had luck carrying them around in my bra in a pill bottle with holes drilled in the cover, and cushioned by...
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    Yay it worked ! (First baby jumbo coturnix)

    Can’t remember if I mentioned we have eight surviving and doing well, but… they are old enough to feather sex now and … we have ONE hen and 7 roos 😆 back to the drawing board. Hubby got the incubator started the other day and will pick up more eggs tonight. Also I talked to the guy who was...
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    Beard

    This is one of my last two of ten to hatch, I think, and one died. This one is a bit wobbly getting up if it gets cast but it has been managing. It also has this weird tuft of longer feathers on one cheek. Has anyone ever seen this?
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    Yay it worked ! (First baby jumbo coturnix)

    Oh thank you and as far as pooping everywhere — definitely!!. lol (but seriously it is the one thing I don’t like about birds is that they are so messy ! I do have finches and bred exotic finches for a while about 20 years ago but now I just have a couple males for color and song- even two or...
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    Yay it worked ! (First baby jumbo coturnix)

    as far as it being humidity, it shouldn’t have been a problem, but we had a discrepancy between the Bluetooth/wireless hockey puck monitor we had in there and the one that is included in the incubator … so we weren’t sure which one was more accurate. Also, not really sure how to calibrate...
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    Funny Poultry pics

    Self explanatory 😆
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    Yay it worked ! (First baby jumbo coturnix)

    Oh yes, I’ve done that too. It’s very difficult, if not impossible. Not impossible if they abandon them in the last couple of days before hatching so you don’t have to worry about turning them. you can put them in a pill jar lined with tissue, with holes drilled in the top and put them next to...
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