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This thread is from 2015. I think you have a quail that's homozygous sparkly and heterozygous fee.

Big Gal/Boy looks like a boy to me, too, based on its clear/slightly rusty chest and the fact it picks on the males. Big size, though...

What do you mean by shaking? Like - is she visibly trembling, does it come and go, is it worse at certain times? It's possible she...

Yes. Fee only removes the brown pigment from the bird - if you have a feather sexable variety, males will still have a clear breast...

It might just take a bit of time. Baby chicks take a while to get their legs under them (literally in this case). How are they today?

Dead on with this observation. I know a lot of EV adopters are more hippies and are largely deluded about the eco-friendly aspect of...

Probably? But frankly, I don't know. It would depend on how many chickens are being released every time - if you're dropping in 2000...

And a funny post in which I indulge my anthropomorphization of my birds... I do love how silly my favorites are - Pudding reminds me of...

Yep. I think it's simply that you can breed for flightiness and such, which helps them survive predators more, but it'll take...well...

Eh, I can respect the design - iirc, the Husband read somewhere that it's sheet metal that's pressed into shape, which is pretty great...

Eh...I don't think they do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_chicken#Locations_famous_for_feral_chickens Feral chicken populations...

I wish the juveniles would find their feet already. Then I could make real decisions as to whom to keep vs whom to get rid of - the roos...

Flan has decided to become broody again, seemingly at random. Sigh. Dang hen. It's so hot right now that we could honestly just incubate...

I think it's technically possible, but it would depend a lot on...well, a lot. Chickens were domesticated from junglefowl, after all...