Slow Night Here In Quailville

[thekid]

That movie there is like snakes that are hundreds of feet long

 

[gamebirdboy]

No More!!!!!

 

[MobyQuail]

Slow Night Here In Quailville

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everyones on youtube watching hog hunting videos?

 

[aprophet]

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the gambles kina lay a clutch then take a break and lay another the second clutch seemed to be not as many eggs as the first mine are under lights and on wire. at present time we are kina at the end of the laying season for them (gambles) and blue scale

I like my chukars they have more personality then the rest of my birds mine started laying the spring after the they were hatched mine were hatched in september when the spring rolls around and they start to mate if you have more then 2 in a cage you need to figger out which are the males and get them separated quick the males will fight for breeding rights I have been keeping mine as trios and pairs sometimes trios work and some times it is like 1 hen wants the Beau all to herself and she will keep the other hen from breeding sometimes trios work it just depends on the individual birds

 

[emvickrey]

My chukar hen started laying the other day. I have 1 egg in the bator on lock down, another in another bator I just added the other day and 2 waiting to go in. They're in a grown pen with the ground for a floor and the gambels are in a cage with a wire floor. Do they need a nest or a nest box? My JB's just lay them on the wire anywhere in the cage.

 

[emvickrey]

I discovered a GG bob white this morning with a damaged foot, ankle. What ever that part is where the leg is connected to the toes. It apparently hasn't eaten because it feels very light. The skin is gone in some places but still there in others but the would is more at the point of connection and I can see some bone. What I did is I brought it in and rinsed it off and dried it. Then put triple antibiotic on it. The quail is inside in a small cage with food and water. I gave it chick starter in hopes of getting it to eat. I'm sure wrapping the foot will just cause more problems from the bandaging getting stuck so I didn't wrap or cover it at all.

Is there anything else I should do? I don't have any oral or injectable antibiotics. I'm thinking it may have injured itself yesterday morning when a coon got to my Gambel roo thru the cage wire. The hen got some feathers pulled out around her neck but is uninjured. Bob whites are so flighty i'm sure all the ruckus with the Gambels had the bob whites freaking out. They're around the corner from the Gambel but it's possible they could have seen what was going on.

Anyway, is there anything else I can do to help the GG? I have Poly Vi Sol, should I put some in it's water maybe?

 

[emvickrey]

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The chukar hatched the other day but unfortunately it's alone for now. I have JB due to hatch around the first so it will have company soon. I have one more chukar egg due around the 10th and 3 more I put in the bator sunday. I never got any out of the gambel and won't now since the roo got killed. I'll have to see if the fella I got the pair from has another roo.

 

[Fat Daddy]

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Im a big believer in blu-kote for this type of wound.... I think your right not to wrap it. I would'nt put it back with the rest till its healed some. I feel the dye in the blu kote helps as much as the meds, They see the blu but not the wound and dont pick at it.... Quail seem to heal amazingly fast thou... Good luck, Bill

 

[JJMR794]

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Im a big believer in blu-kote for this type of wound.... I think your right not to wrap it. I would'nt put it back with the rest till its healed some. I feel the dye in the blu kote helps as much as the meds, They see the blu but not the wound and dont pick at it.... Quail seem to heal amazingly fast thou... Good luck, Bill

X2.... AND FIND YOUR FOOT PECKER IN THE CROWD OR KEEP YOUR BLUECOTE HANDY

SOUNDS LIKE YOU MAY HAVE AN "EVIL WENCH" IN YOUR PEN... COMMON BOB HEN TACTIC

 

[emvickrey]

They're still young but I think it's a girl that got hurt. Here's a few pics.

This is the top of her foot.

I went out to look at the rest of them's feet and found one with a scab on the top of one foot and attempted to get it out and it flew right over my shoulder and out of the cage into the woods. Unless it comes back, it's coon dinner because with the snake problem this year there is no way i'm going out there.