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Beginner Questions - Coturnix Quail
Hi everyone! I'm new to both BYC and raising quail - I don't have my quail yet as a regional covid lockdown means I can't travel to collect them, but I'm hoping to be able to move around again in a week or so. I have done lots of research but have a few questions that google hasn't been able... -
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Best way to de-worm quail?
Hi! I suspect that my 3ish month old coturnix quail might have worms. After about a weekish of stress (she was being bullied - its been fixed now) I noticed her poops started to get watery and a little lighter. Hoping it was just a reaction to stress I decided to wait it out. That was some...- PineconeQuail
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- advice wanted coturnix de-worm deworm help how to poop quail sick worm
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Adult female coturnix quail vomiting
Hi again - I'm back with another quail issue/question (ugh)! Recently I had issues with my 3 adult female coturnix quail having attitude problems towards one another (see this thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/female-quail-turned-into-a-bully-after-reintroduction-help.1486060/ )...- PineconeQuail
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- coturnix help quail spit vomit
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Coturnix quail runt??
Hi, my family and i have four 5-week old coturnix quail, but our white one is noticeably smaller than the others. we actually had two “runts” when they hatched, the first one had wry neck (or at least similar symptoms) so it was our main focus for the first few weeks and we didn’t pay as much...- quail_mother
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- coturnix coturnix runt runt runt quail
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Loss of mobility in one leg
I have an almost 4 year old coturnix quail (female). She in an indoor quail and has always been the healthiest of the flock. I noticed that she was dragging her body around her coop early yesterday morning. When I further investigated, I found that one of her legs wasn’t moving. She has been... -
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Silver/blue coturnix quail?
Hi, i had been wondering about the colors of two of my month old quail, who are both a gray color that i hadn’t seen anywhere in coturnix quail up until I found out about silver and blue quail. I think i found the the answer to my question but i’m wondering about whether i’ve made a mistake. On...- quail_mother
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- blue quail coturnix coturnix chick quail advice quail colors quail colours silver quail
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It's official! I have a broody coturnix quail!!!! :D
My buff (pastel/dilute, I was told) celadon (she has blue eggs) coturnix quail hen has gone broody, and I don't think it's genetics. Let me give my theory of how this happened: 1. There were only 3 quails in the hutch (1 male and 2 females), and I had two quails pair bond. How do I know they...- meepANDpeep
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- broody broody coturnix broody quail celadon celadon quail coturnix
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Quail Diarrhea 5 Days- Help Please (poop pics included)
What can I do about my male coturnix’s diarrhea? It’s been going on for about five days now. I’m treating with Corid in case it’s coccidiosis. He lives alone, and he’s not acting very weird except not crowing and having no solid poop- what comes out is mostly whitish or yellowish. Here are some... -
Male quail, no poop for days and drool/vomit?
Male old coturnix quail hasn’t pooped in a few days. His butt looks pasty and he just drooled (threw up maybe? It was clear) on me. What could be wrong? -
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When Do We Decide To Split The Flock?
Hi all, My quail are now 6 weeks old, which I know is where they'll be reaching sexual maturity and begin producing potential eggs and roo foam. I know that the rule of thumb for keeping quail is 1 roo for every 4-6 hens, and that eventually my lot will need to be segregated to keep the peace... -
Bullying at onset of laying?
We are new to quail keeping and have a small flock of 6 Coturnix hens; 3 are brown/pharaoh and 3 are golden/Italian. We got them at 4 weeks of age and now they are 8 weeks old. All has been going pretty perfectly until 2 major changes happened yesterday - nervous activity from the birds overall... -
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Quail and Ramps
I recently acquired some coturnix quail to keep in my suburban backyard, and when doing research on housing I couldn't find much information on how quail do with double level hutches/cages. I ended up buying this rabbit hutch (Wooden Rabbit Hutch) and was worried the quail wouldn't figure out... -
Quail hen scalped! HELP!!! (GRAPHIC)
I awoke this morning to find my Tibetan Coturnix hen scalped! A horrific sight, made my heart stop opening the coop to see such a thing. She was cuddled in the corner drinking water trying to stay hydrated.... I have seperated her from the rest of the flock, (a roo and 2 other hens) and she is...- SubourbonChicken
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- bleeding coturnix help hen injury quail scalped scalped quail scratching urgent
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How to help curled feet on a Coturnix Quail
Hi there, I just got done with my first quail incubation. We had a guy hatch late, last night. All eight others were born with normal feet. This last guy though, not so much. I was hoping by morning they would have spread out like the others did, but no cigar. I'm reading and seeing a to of...- youngcrowbel
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- coturnix coturnix chick coturnix eggs coturnix quail curled ankle curled feet help medical help quail quail advice
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Gender issue
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- coturnix quail advice
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- Forum: What Breed Or Gender is This?
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No males? 13 coturnix
Hello all! New-ish to the quail thing. I hatched out 13 quail, and they are 11 weeks old. Here’s the thing.....I’m around them all the time and haven’t heard a single rooster crow. I know what it sounds like. No crowing. Is this unusual? Also, I got my first egg yesterday. At first I was... -
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California Restrictions on Selling Coturnix Quail
I started keeping quail when I was 12, I started after begging my parents for chickens, one day we went to a swamp meet in Chino, California, this swapmeet is notorious for selling birds, I bought 3 and my flock grew from there, Soon I started incubating and breeding, I made a few hundred... -
Very sad crying quail
I have some nearly 6 week old quail that I hatched in February, everything has been mostly okay except a very tiny FTT quail and now, a crying fluffed up and underweight quail, she keeps crying. I’m treating everyone with corid because that’s all I can think this is. But I’m wondering if anyone...- BrahmaMom1797
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- coccidiosis corid coturnix japanese quail sick sick bird sick coturnix sick quail
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Hi Everybody
I recently fell into the poultry hobby because I decided to incubate supermarket quail eggs. It was interesting. Of 15 eggs, 4 hatched. Two of the hatchlings died in sad circumstances, but I have two beauties that are growing nicely in the brooder. One was splay-legged and curl toed, and I was...- meepANDpeep
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- coturnix new quail supermarket supermarket eggs
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January 2021 Quail Hatch Live!
Lockdown has commenced and it's time to see these little guys emerge from there eggs. Check out the live stream!- thelittlegraybarn
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- coturnix hatch hatching quail
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