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Hi! Yesterday I hatched 20 japanese quail chicks. The eggs were from my flock, which is composed from: Roo: Manchurian Hens: 2 Pharaoh, 1 Italian, 2 Manchurian. There also are 4 Button quails with them: 2 silver (male and female) and 2 pearl (male and female), but I don't think it's relevant...

My bad. Yes, I noticed a diminution of the eggs in the nests. But, since all the eggs I found were from the pullets I tought the hens started/will start soon molting (some are already, others not). Well, I searched anyways if there were some hidden nests in the last week and I found nothing, but...

Hi everyone. I'm planning to move the chickens in a new area, which may have a bit more predators than here. I already have a dog but she's too small and soon she will be even too old to protect the chickens. I still have to see if I'll need a flock guardian dog or not, but I'm doing lots of...

I can't wait to see bantie eggs! Her comb became very red recently, she's about 5 months old. Since here all chickens stop laying in mid-november, I think that if she doesn't begin in 2-3 months she will begin in mid-january/february, the next year. What do you think? Start with the guesses...

Hi everyone. A bit more than one month ago I took home some quails which were about 3 or 4 weeks old. After 1 week one began to look a bit unbalanced and after some days she bagan to keep the wings in a strange way (maybe like she keeps her balance like this), so I took her to the vet. He said...

Hi everyone, today I'd like to start incubating my first button quail eggs along with some japanese ones, which I'd already incubated (they were supermarket eggs). I'd like to have just some advices about the button eggs. 1) I found different percentages on humidity, for chickens I use 45% and...

Hi, I am incubating some eggs for another person who gave me them yesterday. I don't know when these eggs were sent, but I understood they made not the faster travel to here. Before putting them in the incubator, I candled them, to see if everything is ok. Other than few with hairline cracks, I...

Hi, yesterday I got 5 japanese quails, they seem to be 2-3 weeks old. They're such a cuteness, so sweet and already love to be petted and to lay in my lap. I'm not so very good with sexing quails, so I ask if someone can help me. Then, another thing, is there a chance that they learn how to...

Hi everyone! I was wondering, why there are no black domestic geese breeds? (black as a cayuga duck, for example). Is maybe because breeders were not interested in creating a black one? Or maybe there's a genetic reason? I didn't find nothing so far. I was wondering if it's possible to create...

Hi everyone! I hatched some Light Brahmas a bit more than 9 weeks ago. From the beginning (by watching at the behaviour) I tought at least one was a pullet, and I tought for 9 weeks I was right, 4 cockerels and one pullet (yeah, what a luck, but that's not strange to me:gig) I wanted to show...

Hi, I was now checking the chicks for pasty butts and I noticed a chick has a strange belly button. It's swollen and has some white points, which are harder. Checking better I think to see it's like she can't open her vent like normal. She did't had pasty butt (I never had chicks whith it), only...

Around the world there are lots of different breeds with feathered feet, which one do you like most? Do you have a favourite colour of that breed? Here there are the ones I know, let me know if there are others:D

Hi everyone! I loved the Salmon Faverolles breed from when I first saw them. Considering that I'm now a chicken addicted, this year I was planning to begin breeding for showing a bantam breed, too, and when I found out that Bantam Faverolles are a recognized breed I searched them everywhere...

Hi, I need some help, I'm disperated... I saved her when she was one day old (long story) and I don't want to lose her in this way. I just went outside and I found my favourite hen laying in a corner of the duck coop (Chickens and ducks are in the same run but different coops, usually they...

Howdy :D 2 weeks ago I hatched 3 quails from supermarket eggs, 2 pharaoh and a manchurian (I think). This is my first time with quails, so I don't know if I'm right or wrong. Now that they are developing their chest feathers I'm seeing only dotted feathers, so... I think they're all females🤔 or...

Hi! 15 days ago I bought some quail eggs at the supermarket and decided to try hatch some of them for the first time with my Borotto Lumia 16 incubator. From 6 eggs, 2 were infertile and 1 had a blood ring (I think mainly because the eggs weren't so fresh) But here we are, with 3 nice eggs that...

Hi, I was searching for a poultry net on Amazon and I found that I can buy an used (almost new) one instead of a new. At first I wanted to buy the used, because it's a lot cheaper, but then I thought that I don't know if that net has been used by a person who had a flock infected by some...

Hello everyone😁; 2 months ago I brought home some Indian Runners and now I realized that I'm pretty bad in duck color identification😅. Now they are 4 months old and I really can't tell what color are these two... Maybe mallard? Or trout? (the only one who I can tell the color is a black one...

Hi. Today I noticed that one of my 15-week old cockerels was limping. I checked his feet but they aren't swollen, have cuts, etc. He still uses the "injuried" foot, but makes only half step with it, plus he prefers to just lay down and watch his siblings. He gets up to eat and drink (or to run...

6 weeks ago my favourite hen hatched three chicks, but I unfortunately lost her with two of her chicks the same night. The last chick left now is grew up and I'm very attached to him. I'm pretty sure he's a cockerel:hmm. The problem is that I can't keep him as a rooster: he will probably fight...