➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[ShrekDawg]

Nope, not a New England thing only...like I said...brain fart!

Well I was meaning like calling them craisins instead of just dried cranberries hahah wondered if that was specific or not.

 

[007Sean]

Well I was meaning like calling them craisins instead of just dried cranberries hahah wondered if that was specific or not.

No worries!

 

[ShrekDawg]

No worries!

Thanks haha I’ll skip the researching phase.

 

[R2elk]

COM's sound delicious?

Indeed!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Indeed!!

Especially homemade.

 

[Pyxis]

I think I'm gonna try my hand at sexing my rosettas today. They should be old enough, and I heard one crowing yesterday, though I didn't catch which one it was, darn it. I've heard conflicting info on how old they have to be for it to work, though. They might have to be at least eight weeks old?

Both pharoahs are female, which is awesome. They'll go in with my lavender cock in a couple weeks.

One of them developed some kind of joint infection in one leg about a week ago. Limping a ton, didn't want to walk on it. Few days of enrofloxacin has cleared it right up though and she's back to walking around.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

First one hatched

 

[BantyChooks]

Do they really stink!? Do adults stink!?

No more than chickens do.

I think mine with kill themselves before they let me touch them.

They freak the f out if I get near the cage.
I really am afraid they will hurt themselves.

You're training them to be reactive when you back off while they're still scared. Stand still near their cage, but don't look at it and keep your attention on something else. When they stop freaking out and start behaving normally, reward them by slowly stepping away and disengaging entirely. Like everything else I say, this is just the way I do it and not guaranteed to work for others... yadda yadda yadda

That's true...they respond to a whistle more readily than a whisper. Handling them is different than other quail or even other types of birds. Picking them up from the side, instead of from overhead, makes a big difference on how they will respond to being handled.

^^^ this!! Well put. They also have a cascading pressure response starting at the top rather than the bottom or middle; their negative reactions are instantaneous and intense. For lap taming CPs, I avoid picking them up in a secure hold unless absolutely necessary. Instead, I make sure they won't fall more than a foot or so, and simply keep scooping them up onto my hand again and again until they stop protesting. It avoids triggering their flight reactions and makes for an easier experience in the long run.
My CPs perk up when they hear the sound of a violin. The males often crow incessantly as an accompaniment.

 

[BantyChooks]

 

[FortCluck]

I've dropped mine a few times...ok more times than I'd like to admit...actually they jumped, squirmed out of my hand. A 4' fall didn't break anything but it did stun them for a few secounds... made it easier to pick them up. The first time was the scariest....after that I was like, umh dummie, you can't fly yet! they are pretty resilient.

I think that's what happened to mine. I was quite upset with myself because I was holding it good, but the thing found an escape route.