Blooming Heck Kim!! Very impressed that you have been out twice but you can do without having drama like that and very disappointing that the other girl was so inconsiderate. My sister does endurance but she always goes at the pace that the slowest person in the group is comfortable with. Poor Harry, but so pleased it wasn't worse for both of you.
Pleased to report that as I speak my ggs are all reasonably OK. MeMe managed to lose her poultice boot off after the second day of poulticing and it was too dark by the time I found it to scrub her up and try to poultice it again and she seemed sound so I left it..... that was nearly a week ago and she is still sound but would not be surprised if she goes lame again with it..... we will see. Rascal is eating and keeping up with the others but I'm not sure if he is completely right. He has now developed an odema on his girth line on the underside. He had a fly bite there the size of a golf ball and then 2 days later a flat odema about 5inches by 8 by an inch deep. He is quite keen for me to scratch it so I'm guessing it is just an allergic reaction to the bite. Reb had a nasty one on his girth line two just behind one leg that came up the size of a tennis ball and started to weep but thankfully it is nearly gone now.
Our drive last week was pretty much perfect thanks. It was unbearably hot the day before and the day after but the Sunday was a little cooler with a nice breeze, so just about perfect conditions. Zak was very well behaved and Ian shared the driving with me!! We are taking a pair tomorrow. It is quite local, so at least I can get stuff done before we set off and when we get back, rather than spending 3 hrs travelling there and back.
I am down to 9 eggs as 1 got broken and just one more week to go. It was fertile as you could see veins in the broken remains but I haven't candled any of them. What will be will be! Good luck with your goose egg. Rather sad that it will be an only chick, if it makes it. Your quail look lovely. Will you be keeping them?
Think that is all my news. Hope you enjoy the remainder of the long Bank Holiday weekend. Do you have any plans? Fantastic that the sun is shining yet again!
Hope Harry's grazed knee heals without problem and you are waving more flags soon!
Very best wishes
Barbara X
Pleased to report that as I speak my ggs are all reasonably OK. MeMe managed to lose her poultice boot off after the second day of poulticing and it was too dark by the time I found it to scrub her up and try to poultice it again and she seemed sound so I left it..... that was nearly a week ago and she is still sound but would not be surprised if she goes lame again with it..... we will see. Rascal is eating and keeping up with the others but I'm not sure if he is completely right. He has now developed an odema on his girth line on the underside. He had a fly bite there the size of a golf ball and then 2 days later a flat odema about 5inches by 8 by an inch deep. He is quite keen for me to scratch it so I'm guessing it is just an allergic reaction to the bite. Reb had a nasty one on his girth line two just behind one leg that came up the size of a tennis ball and started to weep but thankfully it is nearly gone now.
Our drive last week was pretty much perfect thanks. It was unbearably hot the day before and the day after but the Sunday was a little cooler with a nice breeze, so just about perfect conditions. Zak was very well behaved and Ian shared the driving with me!! We are taking a pair tomorrow. It is quite local, so at least I can get stuff done before we set off and when we get back, rather than spending 3 hrs travelling there and back.
I am down to 9 eggs as 1 got broken and just one more week to go. It was fertile as you could see veins in the broken remains but I haven't candled any of them. What will be will be! Good luck with your goose egg. Rather sad that it will be an only chick, if it makes it. Your quail look lovely. Will you be keeping them?
Think that is all my news. Hope you enjoy the remainder of the long Bank Holiday weekend. Do you have any plans? Fantastic that the sun is shining yet again!
Hope Harry's grazed knee heals without problem and you are waving more flags soon!
Very best wishes
Barbara X
There is another Harlequin quail, a brightly colored black and white faced bird. So I got confused. 
Still they are cute little things so we shall see! Thank you Leyla 
Touch wood not too bad here but I’ve been liberally applying fly spray and keep him wrapped up in the fly rug with the belly cover on. It also has permethrin impregnated into it (Vamoose) and the pattern is meant to keep flies away. Not sure that totally works but it keeps my mind happy. Fingers crossed that odema on Rascal goes down and all is well again for him. Having an itch you can’t get to must be mind bending! 
