I've been caring for a lone corturnix quail recently, it was the only egg to hatch out of 6 last eggs of my dead flock.
She was lonely but she was doing well!
Last night, I cleaned her home up for the first time in her life; she was previously living in our garage so her hutch was wet and...
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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 everyone. My small dog stuck her head through the quail cage while I wasn’t around and bit one of my cortunix quail. She was bleeding a lot and had a bone near her wing which could be the humerus or maybe a rib sticking out. I put neonsporin on her and wrapped her wing going over the...
I'm looking at inoculating some logs with mushrooms in my quail pen (vermicompost bedding in the garage in winter in Canada), and want to see if anyone has experienced quail eating mushrooms? My guess is they won't but the mushroom endeavor is expensive and time consuming to start so I don't...
Uh okay so I don't know how to describe what happened here, I guess I'd better start from just how in the heck this happened?
To begin with I'm a new breeder, only about 6 months or so in the saddle. I had a cage full of egg laying females, and a cage in which I wanted to keep a male for future...
My quail Lilith Just started limping and I looked at her limping foot and found it looked like this!am not sure what this is but it looks infected! I have currently removed the rocks from there box and add a small bowl of ice and water for her to walk around in Her only roommate is my other...
Since I had to sadly giveaway my pet quail pepper because he could’ve killed My female Oak twice my two females feel stressed and aren’t the same so am thinking of getting a new quail chick and I plan on putting that quail in the same pen The second quail (Lilith) is also female sooo is it okay...
Sooo how old do quails have to be give them a bath, like with water, also! if am correct you will usually give them a dust bath first soo how old for both of these Thanks if you respond and give your input means a bunch!:D
I am selling Fertile Cortunix Quail Hatching Eggs at $10 for a dozen. I am located in Granville, Sydney, NSW. Would like to do pickup only at this stage. If anyone would like to pick up some eggs please message me or reply to this thread.
Also wondering if anyone would be interested in day old...
I'm considering doing a dry hatching Cortunix Quail this time.
I have this model of incubator
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/review-of-the-56-egg-no-brand-incubator.1139751/
Last time i hatched 23 of 39 using the factory settings 45-55 degree humidity then 60-70 at lock down...