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I have two sets of breeding quail. They are 9 weeks old today. Ratio is 4 hens to each male. I feed them 30 percent protein game starter. They each have their own rabbit hutch that is 2ft by 4ft with an enclosed nesting area. They have free choice feed and water. They have been out in the bigger...

I have a total of 8 hens. 4 are Silver Laced Wyandottes. 1 of them is the dominant hen. The other 3 have feathers missing from the area where it would usually be missing from a rooster and it's very red. I have seen her mount other hens. No blood that I can see and no sign of pests that I can...

Over the course of the multiple years I’ve had chickens, they’ve always had a fascination with looking inside my house’s windows and into the house. I let my chickens free range most of the time and they often stand or sit down right outside of the door. Do they just like being on the porch or...

So I noticed that my one hen pants a lot? She often pants when it's not even hot outside and none of the other chickens pant just her. I'm not sure why she pants though she's in the shade and has plenty of cool water. When I listen to her it sounds like she was running or like she was hot but I...

One of our juvenile peacocks suddenly died today this morning. He was completely fine yesterday, and able to fly onto his perch, but today as I went out to let my flock out he was just on the ground, dead. His head was resting on his back, he was in a resting position on the ground. No slime in...

Hi everyone, We ordered cornish cross meat chicks about a week ago and in general through their 7-8 weeks before processing we generally lose about 5% of the chickens. This order we lost 18 chicks out of 60 in about 24 hours. 18!!!!!!!!! We have never had that happen before has anyone else...

I recently got my three hens about five days ago. I was told that their food should last about 4 days, but they've barely touched it. I have given them one of those blocks of corn and such (called a pecking block I think?) but I can't quite tell how much they've had because it rained which...