My first experience with coturnix quail!

[subhanalah]

Well, yesterday one of my roos attacked two of my hens. One had a slightly swollen eye, and the other had a hole pecked in the side of her face that I could see muscle through, and her eyelid was torn too. Luckily their eyeballs are ok, but the one looks like the phantom of the opera right now I'm pretty sure the roo in the cage below them was just egging him on so much he flipped out. Now I have the males on the bottom level with a divider between them, and the hens up top. *Sigh* Gotta finish my other pen so I can move them farther apart.

you don't just eat the trouble makers? I've never kept quail so I dunno

 

[nayeli]

I'm looking into getting another batch of quail since my first bath seems defective... They STILL aren't laying!

 

[subhanalah]

I'm looking into getting another batch of quail since my first bath seems defective... They STILL aren't laying!

@idhound has quail eggs for sale, super cheap. Unless that's where you got these guys from, lol.

 

[idhound]

@idhound has quail eggs for sale, super cheap. Unless that's where you got these guys from, lol.

nope he didn't get from me.

 

[nayeli]

I'm the she in the picture... and no I got them locally as birds.

 

[subhanalah]

nope she didn't get from me.

I'm the she in the picture... and no I got them locally as birds. 

Well, now you know where to get some productive layer eggs!

 

[Graphite91]

Apparently my hens are feeling better, because I found FIVE eggs today. One was buried in the sand box, so I think it was from yesterday, but the other four were on top. I only have three laying hens in there... can cots lay more than one egg a day?

And the babies got their first dust bath today and they loved it.

 

[nayeli]

I STILL haven't got one!

 

[Graphite91]

Got some better pics today!


This is a pic of my eggs hatching, and the chicks at a couple days, and now at two weeks.



Notice my little runt Midget, he/she is half the size of the others, and hatched a day late.







This is the hutch, girls on top, the two roos are in the bottom, separated by a divider.

This is Hana, the best layer ever and just a calm sweety pie. She is just so cute and fat! I loves her.

 

[subhanalah]

Awwww! I love the pictures!