The light is over 14 hours, quail have plenty of space, constantly have fresh food and water, not stressed by predators, the weather is warm, but we're only getting two eggs a day. We have 13 girls all of age to lay! What's going on?
We put nutri drench in the water then dropped water on her beak with a syringe, but she seemed perfectly fine until suddenly she wasn't eating, drinking, or walking. She wasn't thin and her poop wasn't strange (however, it was sticking to her feathers a bit.. but we cleaned that off and maybe it...
They were both abt 6 weeks old. This quail was moved into an terrarium to be kept seperate from the others. We tried to feed it crumble and fed it nutri-drench water but it died.
This quail was born weirdly, with wry neck or something, but did fine for a while. Suddenly, I check on her, and she's laying on her side. The morning I checked her she was fine, it was the afternoon when she couldn't walk anymore. Is this a developmental issue or a problem with the flock. Any...
She was born with a weird neck, like wry neck or something, and we thought she could still live. She was doing great until yesterday. I checked on her in the morning, and she was running around fine. Suddenly, in the evening, she was laying on her side weirdly and couldn't stand up. We moved her...
Really? We had clover for a while as a cover crop, which was great for them. They ate it and hid in it a bit... but our quail are in need of hiding spots and we think something natural would be nice for them, plus as dual purpose to give them a bit of fresh food or to attract insects. We're also...
Specifically zone 4-6. I need a shrub to give quail some cover but dual purpose that grows edible fruit or something for them. We eat their eggs, so nothing that would be toxic to us. any ideas?
The chicks in the brooder have a thermometer. We found out the cause of the dying chicks was weak chicks, we assume. We're going to be very strict about the next hatch and we'll monitor the temp + humidity of the incubator. The temperature is technically monitered but we're not sure if it's...
we weren't able to monitor the humidity or temp this time, but other times we did it was fine and we still got a low hatch rate. We are hatching from bought eggs. The chicks are on crumble.
Chicks suddenly dying. One chick seemed healthy, hatched 2 days ago, now is flopped over, is just limp when I pick it up, and can't stand anymore. One of the other chicks died this way. Is it an illness? is there anything we can do?