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BaronVonVaderham posted:Tammy now has a place to live outside! Wife here. The biggest risks here are snakes (nothing big enough to eat her but they'd likely try), hawks, and rats (which we haven't seen in a while, so we either got them all or they moved on). We have enclosed the entire coop in hardware cloth, multiple layers in some places, to keep them out, on top of the regular fences. The eggs look good, everything intact and clean. The supplier was very generous, and sent DOUBLE the number of eggs (ordered 10, got twenty). The eggs are resting and will go in incubator in the morning per supplier's instructions. This is our first time with an incubator so I know to keep my expectations very low - if even half of these hatch I'll be shocked.
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So with quail, is the peep-peep-peep-peep noise a happy quail noise or a scared/sus quail noise? I've been trying to Google it but just finding details on quail from different continents.
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20 quail eggs entered lockdown, so hopefully we will have some friends for Tammy hatching soon. Never done this before (always bought chicks or the chickens brooded the eggs) so this is very exciting!
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 Update: Quail have started to hatch. They are so impossibly small and so impossibly sweet.
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my cat is norris posted:i love them I hope there's more love in your heart because we're up to nine chicks this morning!
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a strange fowl posted:the eggs are pipped and my brooder has died Hot water bottles? Soft nesting material and layers of blankets around brooder?
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my cat is norris posted:Congratulations!! NOW FRY IT AND PUT IT UPON THE TINIEST TOAST YOU CAN FIND As household Quail Mistress, the right of prima ovum falls to me.  Going to see if they'll take to more leafy greens and crickets for that deep orange color. Apparently red chile makes the yolks red. I am intrigued.
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my cat is norris posted:If it's on top of the head it's most likely from Wumbus. Its a tiny, tiny spot on his eyelid. When I found him the entire side of his head was covered in blood and I thought he was missing an eye, but no, just messy. After gently cleaning his face he looks 99.99% back to normal. ETA: Its interesting watching the social dynamics change. Korben's been separated less than 12 hours, but in the vacuum, Volly went from nearly never crowing to crowing nearly constantly. Dienes fucked around with this message at 16:05 on Dec 13, 2022 |
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We threw some old towels over hutch and used caulk in corners/seams to make sure there were no drafts. Extra-thick layers of straw and pine shavings to keep it dry and let them nestle in.
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Molentik posted:
Is that a white pecock on the right, or some other kind of bird? Very jealous of all your pretty screamers.
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Joburg posted:I wonder if you could selectively breed quail roosters to be protective of quail hens. How many generations would that take? I want to attempt to breed a low-crow quail, which is the other reason why Zap is with the girls: his is the least frequent and quietest crow out of all the boys.
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Mustache Ride posted:My grandma gave me these for Christmas Those are super cute! We had an incident where the rooster's coop door opened in the night - guessing we didn't latch it all the way. Fortunately no one left the yard and no one was hurt or eaten - most of the boys were just exploring the yard, Quinlan was trying to get into the girl's coop, and Korben and Maud'dib just stayed in the coop like the good boys they are. Scared the crap out of me first thing in the morning, though. In other news, someone laid an ombre egg:  One week until the next hatch goes into lockdown. Edit: Its Florida, so people have started shooting fireworks for new years. Every time one goes off, ALL THE QUAIL ROOSTERS CROW AT IT. Its going to be a long night. Dienes fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Jan 1, 2023 |
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spookygonk posted:Yay Zapdos! Oh wow, that looks way, way better! Good job, Skye! The second hatch is going a little TOO well. We had 16 hatch yesterday, and 5 more just hatched today, putting us at 70% hatch rate....and 3 more are pipping.
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my cat is norris posted:and that sound really carries! There's a moderately busy road next to our backyard, which the neighbors reports is loud enough to drown out most of the crowing. All the local butchers either went out of business or won't process the birds, so it looks like its gonna be the wife's job. At least they dress incredibly easily. Until then, they are outrageously cute.
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Woke up to find one of the chicks had passed. No idea why - no injury, no signs of illness, brooder temp good, fresh food and water available. I'm really upset about it, even though I know its bound to happen. I can't imagine what you're going through, joburg. That's a whole other level. I'm so sorry. We'll be thinking of you and your flock.
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Today one chick either has a crop problem or just ate a massive meal: The crop's been steadily shrinking the last few hours and the chick is behaving normally, so I'm not panicking yet.
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Jan 16, 2023 21:45
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Lumpy chick is back to normal. Its insane how quickly they grow - a week old and they already have doubled in size and have their wing feathers. They are now playing in hay and watching YouTube videos meant for cats. Edit: 
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a strange fowl posted:i hope all my quail that have died were reincarnated into your quail IMPORTANT QUAIL UPDATE: Some of our quail hens are going to chicken camp with me over the summer! https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/training/chicken-camp-dog-trainer/ Depending on how it goes, I may have my doc students train some other hens in the fall. Quail, chickens, and pigeons have a lot in common, particularly vision, and pigeons have been trained for some seriously cool stuff, like categorizing type of artwork.
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a strange fowl posted:sometimes i catch myself thinking "drat quail are so simple, they die at the drop of a hat, they must be a lesser life-form", but then the drat things look me straight in the eye and i realise they are tiny people That's the exact reaction I have to human infants. We've been missing Tammy. Zapdos definitely does - his crowing, particularly at us, has increase exponentially the past few days. But its been nice to have the chicks as a distraction. They are starting to show different colors and personalities: Our only silver pharoah chick (thus far):  We have 2 turning more orange, likely to be Italians like Zapdos.  A lone Tibetian-looking chick.  One of the 2 brown tuxedos. They are some of the chiller chicks.  The one chick who has a name - MIL decided this was her favorite and dubbed them 'Striper.' Naturally, this one is the least tame. It also can fly across the room.  The one black chick, who hatched from our own quails' eggs and is undoubtedly Windlord's baby.  The black chick has an underbite and ever-so-slight scissor beak. Doesn't seem to be holding them back at all, though!  One of the many, many pearl chicks.  The chick I can't pin down yet. Doesn't look like the pharoahs or silver pharoahs, color is more patchy and chest is very dark.  Another shot of the same chick: 
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Demon Of The Fall posted:
Thank you i enjoyed the chickens and would like to know the name of the white one with the gold head thanks in advance
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We have a falb fee bird that looks like a standard pharoah, only grey instead of brown. We're pretty sure they are a girl because they have a speckled chest instead of solid white/red. For a ground bird, they want to be on my shoulder all the time. If I pick them up they run up my arm or jump to my shoulder, and if I take them off, they run right back up. They'll sit there for hours if I let them. Lately I have been sitting on the screened in lanai and they watch me play Pokemon on my Switch.  Naming them Silverbolt.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Full of foam? When you vent sex coturnix quail, you apply light pressure just under their cloaca. If they are a boy, a bunch of foam will come out. If they are a girl, nothing will come out. The foam is NOT quail....seed. Scientists aren't 100% sure what it is, but its thought to help transfer other fluids during mating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DbcoQFrnl8&t=203s
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Velvet Sparrow posted:Update on my Chickam hatch equipment... I follow Chickam religiously, and its probably both the reason why we pulled the trigger on hatching quail, and what is keeping me from hatching a third round of babies (hey, we're allowed up to 50 quail and only have a dozen hens). I never would have expected hatching eggs to be addicting, but it is. You're going above and beyond to ensure successful hatching and healthy babies. We're rooting for you! Especially my husband. Who does not want me hatching any more eggs.
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City of Glompton posted:today is hatching day for 3 of my banty hens. they each have three eggs. there are three out of the shell so far but not ready for pictures yet. i'm ready for them to be done already lol So exciting! I love hatchings. Once they fluff up please post pics.
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Velvet Sparrow posted:Start thinkin' up names, y'all! This year I decided to throw some font names into the hat... I submit Chiller for your consideration. Crossing fingers all goes smoothly this hatch! still want to hatch another small round of quail for hand taming, or eating, depending on gender
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5er posted:One of my cinnamon queens is apparently hermaphroditic. My wife was doing yardwork and saw her mounting one of the other hens and thought maybe she was just being super butch, but she definitely spotted what she called a 'third leg' happening back there. Apparently the odds of having a hermaphroditic chicken are 1 in 10,000; considering that billions of chickens hatch every year, there have got to be quite a few out there. Roosters don't really have a penis - if what your wife saw was pink or red, its possible that the hen had a bit of a prolapse from laying an egg, which may have self-resolved. Does the hen have an unusually large comb, or spurs on one or both legs? Those are the usual signs. Someone commented earlier in the thread about 'quail courage' and I saw it in action today. There's a Cooper's Hawk that lives nearby, and this morning that hawk and two crows were fighting and swooping in our yard. The quail are enclosed in several layers of wire, so they were perfectly safe, but they didn't know that. All the hens and the two younger roos ran into the hutch and burbled at each other, but our oldest roo, Zapdos, ran out and strutted and fluffed and crowed and cackled and 'danced' until the hawk and crows left. Little dude was ready to take them all on and take one for the team. Quail courage.  We got some treat dispensers for the quail that have been a bit hit for dispensing mealworms and scratch: https://www.amazon.com/ROICO-Interactive-Treat-Dispensing-Stimulating-Stimulation/dp/B097Q7C8KL/ https://www.amazon.com/REPTIZOO-Reptile-Enrichment-Bearded-Animals/dp/B09WYRHL9T/ https://www.omlet.us/shop/chicken_keeping/chicken_peck_toy/
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That's an improvement from last time! I'm glad we have 16+ possible chicks. Crossing my fingers. Kinda jealous that chickens still have some brooding instincts - we can't tell who laid what unless we isolate each hen. They just plop n' go.
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We have 2 quail chicks and 4 more pips! Edit: Out of 16 developing eggs, we now have 14 chicks. Technically the hatch day is tomorrow, so the last 2 eggs will get another 2-3 days in case we have any stragglers.     
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5er posted:Ah I always check on this thread just in time for sad quail news. Quail are like those glass ornaments for xmas trees though. They seem rather easy to break at the start and at the end. This is very true. We had a straggler hatch by themselves on Easter morning, who has promptly been named Jesus Christ/ina. A few chicks were lethargic and 'floppy' post-fluffing up. We hand-fed and watered them for the past day or so - one chick sadly passed, but the others have bounced back and are energetic and enthusiastic eaters and peepers now. Roost in Peace, Moose. You were a glorious quail and very much loved.
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BaronVonVaderham posted:(please no more hatching for quite some time........). I make no promises.
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I need to pick up my GoPro from the lab to get video, but Peanut Hamper is doing fantastic at Chicken Camp! So far she's learned: how to not freak out when put on the table, how to eat from the treat cup, how to not freak out when she hears a click sound, and just started pecking and following the target stick. I won't get to work with her over the weekend due to a work conference, but when I get back our next step is going through a tunnel!
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https://i.imgur.com/l2BdOXn.mp4 A clicker training session with Peanut Hamper. We're cleaning up her pecking the target stick, and soon we'll be starting going through a tunnel.
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The quail have always had food with calcium, and are occasionally given scrambled quail eggs with the shell, but they now have cuttlebones and a separate feeder with calcium and grit, so they can self-supplement if need be. Peanut Hamper continues to excel at clicker training: https://i.imgur.com/qGgdy1l.mp4 The tunnel was the next step after pecking the target stick. It gets her doing longer/more complex tasks, scanning for the stick, and persisting a bit. She's exceptionally eager to work - she'll sit at the door and peck at my hand until I take her out for training. Its been great enrichment for her.
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hypoallergenic cat breed posted:I live on the gulf coast and it's been very hot recently. The combination of humidity and temperature makes the "real feel" temp around 108°. My chickens have been having trouble adjusting and I had one of my largest hens pass away yesterday due to heat stroke. Our quail here in Florida are having trouble with the heat, too. I have been doing the same things you have - shade, ice water. I spike the water with Rooster Booster so they have some electrolytes as well. Misting won't help much, if at all, due to the humidity. I got a cheap box fan and just have it blow into the coop/run as much as possible. I also gave them really deep sand/mulch bedding, and they seem to find digging pits in it good for keeping cool. A sand bath can also help - the cleaner they are, the easier they can regulate. But the biggest help I've found so far is the fan.
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hope and vaseline posted:demon chicken awakened by watermelon Careful, you wanna be sued by Terry Goodkind's estate?
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One of the roosters in the hen pen, Striper, just lost his goddamn mind and started scalping the girls, hurting about 5 in the course of 2 hours. He's never done anything like this before, so we're pretty dang stunned. Don't know what set it off but he is incredibly lucky that he's not the main course for dinner tonight. We moved him and Frankie out of the hen pen and moved Mouse, a younger, chiller, and prettier rooster, in to replace them. The injured hens are inside and only one is in dire shape, but we're keeping them calm, clean, warm, dry. Then we heard Tiamat making the weeeeep-weeeeeep-weeeeeep-weeeep alarm call and sure enough, a 3-4 foot black racer smelled the blood and was trying to get in the hutch. The snake was gently relocated. Zapdos, the senior rooster, marched along the walls of the run the entire time, keeping himself between the hens and the snake (even though there was no way the snake could get through multiple layers of hardware cloth).
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If a pigeon can pilot a missle I guess a chicken can man a gun turret.
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That sucks, Mustache Ride. I'm so sorry. Parmesan is a particularly gorgeous bird.
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Nettle Soup posted:Any wooden coop you buy is gonna rot to bits within a couple of years if you have any sort of wet weather, because they're all made like poo poo. Can confirm, mistakes were made.
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