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Two of my quail - Jupiter the rooster and Eris the hen - have recently had nails come off. Jupiter's nail came off last night while I was attempting to remove a developing poop ball. Eris had a nail a week or two ago which was growing more and more yellow (see pic) and which was very, very...

I have four layers and three of them have been laying consistently for several weeks now (Special thanks to Nabiki for the help!) One of them seems to be laying sporadically, and I haven't been able to figure out which one. However, I noticed two days ago that one of them, Venus, has a hard...

Bit of history: I have five coturnix quail (1 cock, 4 hens) in a hutch that is just short of 10 square feet. Two of the females have yet to lay consistently, while the other two (Athena & Eris) lay daily. One of the hens, Persephone, has laid once, but she had bumblefoot which I treated with...

I recently bought a gorgeous young celadon quail who came with what looked like a bad case of bumblefoot. I tended the wound a couple nights ago by peeling off the scab, soaking and rinsing with epsom salt water, and finishing with over-the-counter antibiotic ointment. I'm keeping her in the...

I got two chicks about two weeks ago - Artemis and Venus. When they were sold to me, Artemis had some feathers missing from her hindquarters which have started to grow in but slowly. Venus had a similar issue one day after I let them loose in the aviary with the adults. Assuming it was a...

I was putting the flock back in their hutch for the night and noticed a bulge similar to the one in this thread but under the cloaca of one of my hens. It doesn't seem to hurt her when touched or pressed and it's very soft. What is this? Should I be concerned? She's only about 10 weeks old. Pics...

I got a flock of five at a young age and it turned out to have two roosters. I kept them together until one of them (I call him Jupiter) grew up a bit faster than the other (I call him Mercury). Jupiter started out crowing and aggressively trying to mate with the hens (he even tore some...

I've had my flock for about 8 weeks now and got them when they were a week old. I have four hens and a roo, and I keep the roo in the same hutch in a screened off area so he doesn't breed with the hens. They can all see each other and are eating well and have plenty of room. For about two weeks...

I have a flock of five who are about a month old. I recently found out that one is a rooster, because he started crowing. I went into getting quail for the eggs and didn't want any males, so I decided to take him out of the flock to exchange for a female. When I isolated him, he didn't eat much...

I'm getting ready to build a hutch for my five coturnix quail and I wanted some advice on the size. I want them to be comfy and was thinking of doing a 5×2 hutch but I've heard that too much space will make them "territorial". So, my questions are: What does territorial mean and is it bad? How...

I keep my five quail in a brooder/mini-hutch in a small, enclosed, outdoor part of the house (kind of like an aviary?). I've been trying to tame them some, and them when they were about 7 to 10 days old. It's been about 10 days since then, and they trust me enough to eat from my hand if I put it...

Cross posting from teh new members section! I recently got five quail chicks from a local farmer and Im very excited about them! Maybe a little too excited. I bought them for eggs but I also want to tame them so they aren't afraid of me. I have read different opinions about how to tame quail...

Hi fellow feathery flock! I recently got five quail chicks from a local farmer and Im very excited about them! Maybe a little too excited. I bought them for eggs but I also want to tame them so they aren't afraid of me. I have read different opinions about how to tame quail from being still...