long beaked quail

[skywatcher]

I had some quail 2 & 3 year old breeders some had long curved beaks. I thought they might need trimmed so they could eat better. I placed a flint rock inside the cage for them to whittled down their beak on. I never noticed theor beaks getting shorter or seen any peck at the rock.
Has anyone placed stones in there cages for this reason?

 

[monarc23]

nope but that is the cause of the beaks is age and not getting to naturally peck at things I assume your birdies are in raised wire cages? If so theres some things you could do but the easiest one would just be to trim the beak a few cms

That's the way you'd see the fastest change....otherwise a biiig ole sand bath area continuously in their cage with maybe pea gravel

They love to pick throught that stuff....the only thing is I highly doubt it makes a drastic diff but they surely will love it!

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

What i do to my quail and chickens when their beak is long i take one of those landscaping stones. Like the really rough one and i lay it done in their coop and they trim their own beak down themselves. I've even seen my chickens sand their nails down a couple times lol.

 

[skywatcher]

Thanks for the good advice