I am letting them be, hoping that they just need recovery time... but, the majority of my flock is old, and seems to be egged out, so, Having more than 2-3 eggs a day would be nice.
Thanks for the IDs. I knew some of them, the M/F I'm still learning, though #6 I was pretty sure was male due to the darker head.
Definitely getting lots of the gold and red tones mixed into them.
Got a bunch of unique and New (to me) colours in my most recent hatch. They're growing into their colours quite nicely.
I have mostly no idea whether they're Male or Female... one or two I have ideas.
These are just a sampling from the 26 in the last clutch.
I did a search but wasn't really finding my question:
All my ladies, and roos, seem to be molting.... they have lots of clean feathers, but there are a ton littered around their pens. Most of my hens aren't currently laying, and haven't for several weeks.... they also keep shoving all their...
So, I just butchered my first quail. I was planning on it eventually, but tonight it became necessary.
As my newest hatch was getting older, I moved the hens into a pen with a solo older rooster...
Discovered this evening when I got home that the rooster (named Duck) had quite savagely...