quail chick

Hey all I just hatched 41 little coturnix quail from Meyer Hatchery’s “Rare Assorted Coturnix Quail” eggs and I got two chicks that are almost strawberry blonde color and I was curious if anyone else could tell me what these are likely to be? We got a ton of colors in our 41 hatchlings and an...

I hatched these babies 6 days ago and since they hatched one of the chicks has been randomly making this weird motion. It stands there and closes its eyes and throws its head back. It opens its mouth like it’s chirping but no sounds come out. It does that for a while and then stops shakes and...

Hi! I recently started hatching my first group of 72 eggs. Out of 72 on day 14 I candled and 51 were fertile and growing well. I locked down the incubator at 99.5 F and 65-70% humidity. At 6 pm last night we had four pips on day 18. Since then we have had 6 successfully hatch and have 11 more...

Here are my chicks from Easter hatch 😁 🐣

Wanting to learn for the future I must have switched brooder temperature when I deep cleaned it... I entered into incubating with the mistake of my brooder set to 101.5. This is the first hatch I had fail. I'm finishing Day 19 and 25 eggs unhatched. 2 chicks hatched on Day 18, feet and legs...

Hello, my quail chick has a swollen foot, it doesn’t seem to be bumblefoot because it is swelling on the top of the foot rather the bottom. Could it possibly be a form of gout? This is my first time hatching and raising quail. I also have a chick with wry neck and I purchased the 80ml vitamin E...

hi, this is my first time posting something like this and my first time taking care of quails, and i want to do my best i have 2 baby quails at home that has hatched 5 days ago, but one of them has watery poop and im scared cuase i heard a quail with diarrhea can die within 2 days im not sure...

Hey I need advice asap. I have a chick who I think is about 7 maybe 8 days old. Hatched with no issues or health concerns. Long story short I discovered it had curled toes so I taped them and went to bed and in the morning I found him laying on his stomach with his leg stretched out backwards. I...

Hello! I'm new to hatching quail here. Recently got some eggs from a friend and these two popped out! Would I be correct to call the color variety of these two birds pharaoh? I'm a bit confused because one of the birds has a black stomach and black legs, while the other has a yellow stomach...

Hi so I have a weird situation, I keep quail in my backyard and everything I have read online says they don’t go broody in captivity and they don’t hatch babies out. One of my hens was broody last year, so qthis year i decided to let her try to hatch her eggs out. Well I just got home and she...

on exactly may 1st Murray McMurray delivered 25 California quail eggs to my house. All the eggs looked fine with no visible cracks I put them in my incubator set the temp and proper humidity. I am very new to this so I definitely did something wrong. 4 days ago day 23 of the hatch 4 hatched Day...

Hey remember the quail that I was talking about incubating, here they are! Incubated 10 of my backyard quail eggs and got 9! 1 wasn’t fertilized. Thank you A LOT for everyone who replied to my post “hatching quail questions” :frow They poop a lot, jump a lot, and grow very fast:wee

I have 5 new quail chick that are 18 days old. Today I noticed one of them having something like a seizure. It holds its head near to the ground, its behind up high, runs backwards and wiggles its head from one side to the other. After these attacks, it stayed still for quite a while with its...

Hello all, so I had hatched out 6 Coturnix quail mixes about a week ago and I noticed right away that one if the babies was breathing faster than everyone else and rather lethargic. I gave her some B12 and water, called it a night and she's made it up to now. She still breathes quite fast, she's...

Hello all, I've been incubating Coturnix quail eggs and was pleasantly surprised yesterday morning (day 18 of incubation) to find some of my chicks had hatched. Unfortunately, I had to open the incubator very quickly 2x to retrieve said chicks. (One had curled toes and splayed legs and was super...

Hello all, Once again I'm hoping to benefit from the wisdom of people with more quail experience than me. On Sunday one of my three Japanese quail chicks developed trouble walking. It is 1.5 weeks old and has had no trouble with splayed hips or any other issues/abnormalities (that I could see)...

Can anyone recommend a good grit for coturnix quail chicks? I want to start giving them treats (hard boiled eggs or fruits and veggies) but I need to buy some grit first I think. I saw probiotic chick grit for sale, but I think it’s for chickens. Would it work for quail chicks too? They are a...

I have a week old quail chick who yesterday started limping. I now believe he jumped and landed weird. I don’t think it is spradde: neither joint is swollen, couldn’t feel a slipped tendon, looks the same as each other and the other chicks. His right leg is not pointing straight but instead to...

All my quail chicks wing feathers have started coming in! One of them has started walking really funny. He squats close to the ground and holds his wings out beside him while he walks. I checked his legs and them seem fine (not slipped hock, no curled toes) so I was thinking maybe his new...

I hatched some quail chicks 4 days ago and they were all doing perfect but when I got home from work today 4 of them had died. The other chicks all looked pretty lethargic so I took them outside on some grass and they perked up alot but once I put them back in the brooder box they all returned...