Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

[monarc23]

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agh! that's sad to hear PC!!! From what I was just recearching yes they can get cocci but i can't find much info on it in them specifically. Google search brings up some links but many are in HTML files which my moms computer won't process well for some reason (getting a laptop on wednesday so then I'll finnally be able to look at stuff like that since my personal computer just died finnally...hey it was a decade old i'd say it had a good life lol)!

I suggest deffinatly doing google searches you'll see all the info I was able to find and maybe you'll have better luck accessing it haha!

Niki

 

[monarc23]

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yeah sad isnt it!?! I'm lucky that I learned a bout this issue before my birds were mature as I've seen first hand (not from my birds) how they can com eout looking not just males hens too, it would make a weak person puke or cry..or both. Like putting a bird through a meat grinder. It's unbelieveable what thsoe beaks can inflict!

Yay to getting the ratio workedout!

so how do i fix it?!!?? did i do the right thing?????

your ratio is perfect now! Not much more you can fix

If your male is sitll torchering your hens at 5 hens, i'd say replace him when you can get another male. If he's fine with the hens now I'd say you're good.

Just dont get any more hens, because one male coturnix is only fertile to so many hens and 5 is the normal reccomended maxiumum amount per male.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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As I read your post I was saying to myself "my quail are more gentle than
that". Then today we find missing feathers and bloody heads on several
of our adults. Now it's time to start lots of seperate cages.

 

[PurpleChicken]

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agh! that's sad to hear PC!!! From what I was just recearching yes they can get cocci but i can't find much info on it in them specifically. Google search brings up some links but many are in HTML files which my moms computer won't process well for some reason (getting a laptop on wednesday so then I'll finnally be able to look at stuff like that since my personal computer just died finnally...hey it was a decade old i'd say it had a good life lol)!

I suggest deffinatly doing google searches you'll see all the info I was able to find and maybe you'll have better luck accessing it haha!

Niki

Everything I've found says they are susceptable but much more resistant
to most domestic foul diseases. Thanks for checking.

 

[monarc23]

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agh! that's sad to hear PC!!! From what I was just recearching yes they can get cocci but i can't find much info on it in them specifically. Google search brings up some links but many are in HTML files which my moms computer won't process well for some reason (getting a laptop on wednesday so then I'll finnally be able to look at stuff like that since my personal computer just died finnally...hey it was a decade old i'd say it had a good life lol)!

I suggest deffinatly doing google searches you'll see all the info I was able to find and maybe you'll have better luck accessing it haha!

Niki

Everything I've found says they are susceptable but much more resistant
to most domestic foul diseases. Thanks for checking.

that's great to know thanks for letting me know!!!

You were making me worried hehe!!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

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As I read your post I was saying to myself "my quail are more gentle than
that". Then today we find missing feathers and bloody heads on several
of our adults. Now it's time to start lots of seperate cages.

Mine were like that too... beautifully feathered out, then one day I go out and one is scalped. The bobwhites do that too... when they don't like someone, they really don't like them!

 

[peewee]

O.K. I know that I said I was going to wait until spring to try my hand at quail but I was at the feed store today (bad, bad feed store - too many cuties there) and there was this cute little pair of quail sitting in the cage. The little girl had laid some eggs in the back and the male was in the front running back and forth by the door. I will try to get a picture of them tomorrow to post but couldn't wait to see if anyone knew what these birds are. They look to me like they are bobwhites but the thing that is throwing me off is that they are frizzled(?). They look like they stuck their beaks in a light socket and it curled their feathers. The girl is laying tiny white eggs. I have them in a x-large dog kennel with hay for bedding and I am feeding them wild game bird food for now until I find out what they really need to eat. I clipped their wings and they didn't seem to mind being handled - my parrots put up more of a stink then these little guys did. Is there anything else that I need to do for them until I get their coop built? Is there such a thing as a frizzled bobwhite?

 

[shelleyd2008]

Not that I know of, maybe they are molting. You probably don't want to make a 'coop' for them. I have heard it is better for them to be up off the ground. Post pics ASAP!!

 

[peewee]

o.k. you talked me into it. Give me a few and I'll get them posted if my camera will work.

 

[monarc23]

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congrats on the quails!

However, it looks like a nutritonal defficiancy why they're curly like that. There are frizzle genes, however not that I know of in bobwhites...they were probably just poorly cared for before you got them.

you're feeding them the right food by the way