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I am SO jealous!! LOL But see, you are living an adventurous life! I mean, taking the "defeated" path is too easy! So just dive in head first and live a little! Oh, and please keep us posted here....You need to change the subject of this thread to "As the Gambel Egg Turns". This is one soap...

I don't think it has anything to do with you raising Gambels. I could have said that about my first attempt at chickens. MY GOD did I have the health troubles and near deaths the first year. One thing after another and at one point I was SO sorry I even got involved in them. But I hung in there...

OMG!!! I am SO SO SO sorry. You need to put locks on your pens and possibly get some guard dogs. Wow, that is awful. I am really sorry. :-(

Not really. You can't feather sex them til about 11 or 12 weeks old. So it will be a grab bag. LOL Just use your best judgement. I will be anxiously awaiting pics of the new babies. Gambel babies are so cute when they are feathering in.

$5.00 a piece for Gambels is a good price. As for how many, yes, I would try to get an even amount of birds. Make SURE that you are buying healthy chicks. PA is a long drive from Ohio, but you don't want to bring home sick babies. So give them a good looking over. Check them for mites on the...

Good that they are Gambels. That will make it a lot easier for mixing. Once these babies grow up a bit, possibly by this fall, he will have bonded with another female for his mate and will have forgotten all about his lost kin. And at least by getting more Gambels, this will help you heal as...

Quail usually start to bed down at dusk. So about a half hour before dark, they usually find a spot to hunker down in. As for the 4 week olds....what breed are these? Gambels? You could probably put them in a dog crate inside your aviary so they all get used to each other. Maybe at 5 weeks you...

That SOMETHING that is pulling out the bowls may be some predator that may eat your babies. So you need to remove the food and water at night. If you don't see them soon, you probably wont. At some point, if they are alive, they may move off to somewhere else. I am so sorry. Are you keeping a...

Anybody been captured yet?? :-)

No, don't put babies in with him as him being as stressed as he is, he might hurt them. I have had success with mixing 6 week olds with single adult quail before. The adult is not threatened by 6 week olds, and they appear to be old enough that the adult doesn't bother them. Of course always...

Keep trying tomorrow. They should start to get hungry and may come out for food and water. Put out their most favorite thing to eat...mealworms, greens, seeds, what ever get them interested in coming close to a cage.

I know how you feel. I will say a wee prayer for you that you are able to catch at least one of them. Keep us posted. :-)

Nope on which girl. Whom ever you can catch and they will gladly welcome each other. I hope you can find them tonight and if not that they survive the night. Keeping my fingers crossed for you. :-) And even if you catch a male, keep him anyway. Without any females in your pen, the two will get...

Well, good luck. Maybe you can catch them at night since they freeze up at night. If you have a net you can plop down over them, that might make it easier to catch them. Good luck!

Mine are wire crates...for very large dogs. I use them for breeding pairs, hospital cages and caging annoying chickens. LOL

Oh and make sure the opening to the cage is along the fence line so when they are running along they have no choice but to run inside the cage.

When I lost some Bobs in the back woods, here is what I did. I put out a feeder and water to lure them in, knowing they would be getting hungry. I also had a extra large dog crate which I set up along a fence line in line with these feeders and water. I also put some feed and water inside the...

I am so so so sorry. I can imagine how ill you must feel and how heavy your heart must feel. However beating yourself up over it will not do anybody any good. You kept these birds in a good way, and took great care of them. They were loved very much by you. Accidents happen. And it is not your...

Good deal. Keep up with the Vit E for a while. E is good for the immune system and will only help him improve all over. The crooked neck is one symptom that you see. There could be other things going on in his body that you don't see. So the E will help all around. I am glad to hear he is...

Wry neck or even Mareks disease is not all that common in gamebirds, but it does happen. Twisted necks can also be a sign of vitamin deficiency. Toxins can cause a twisted neck along with genetics. An injury can also cause this issue. Treating wry neck takes a long time, but many times they do...