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UPDATE It's chaos ! In the incubator one chick hatched out a full 2 days before the due date! Then another hatched on the due date. Then 4 more hatched a day after the due date! I put all the eggs in the incubator at the same time and had stored them in a container about 1 week before, so...

I will turn less in the incubator. I am not too worried about humidity because its normally 45 to over 60 percent most days where I live. Also it's over 90 F most days too...and this is the COOL season lol. I will take out a couple of her eggs from the nest and open them as you suggest. The...

I got this mini incubator thing off the net to try to hatch out some of my Chinese Painted Quail eggs, because I have very poor hatch rates when the female quail incubates them herself. Each time she goes broody she only manages to hatch 1 chick from 7 or 8 eggs, and the last time none of the...

Hi OP. I have 3 male and 2 female Chinese Painted (Button) Quail. My 2 females regularly go broody, hatch and raise their chicks with no problems. I did not realise that it is the exception rather than the norm, until I read about them on here. My group all live together and there is no...

Hmmm.......they have the right food, and it won't harm them eating each others food either. If the eyes seem open normally and not sore then I doubt it's an infection. It is very strange that this is happening. Usually something like this is just one bird. I can only suggest you check the...

How can you tell they are going blind? Are you sure they have not got sore eyes from an infection or irritation? What do you feed them? If they get normal chicken feed and grains they won't have a deficiency.

None of my aviary birds will eat chicken feed or chick starter. I tried as I though it would be good for them when moulting or rearing young. There is some in there all the time for my Chinese painted quails (the only ones that will eat it). My pigeons did like the layer pellets though...

I plan to build a planted aviary in my garden of my new house, but am really worried about how sensitive and worried people can get here in the UK sometimes. I don't want to give the neighbours any reason or cause for complains. So I need to make sure the birds I keep will be quiet so as not...

OK, so I know these are not exactly chickens, but I have 2 Gouldian Finches. As they are birds, I guess this would happen if they were chickens. My partner used a flea and tick spray on the dog's bedding when my two finches were in the same room at the time. The doors and windows were all...

Thanks for all the helpful replies. I am going to add more carrots and also put a lid on the tub (with air holes), then see how that goes. The bedding is oat bran (which is the same brand I always use). Nothing has changed. I live in Thailand so it's hot air temperature naturally, but I...

OK, so I am having problems with my mealworm cultures this month with they dying in large numbers and can't figure out what is going on. I have kept and bred mealworms for years as food for my birds, reptiles and other animals... and have no serious problems. They are are the correct...

I have an all male group of Chinese Painted Quails in my aviary for a few years. They all get on fine and everything has been great up until this week. About 2 months back one quail got a disease like fowl pox all over its feet and legs and, despite treatment, and showing some signs of getting...

The one that goes in the shed... shut the door and catch it. Put it in a smallish wire bird or wire rabbit cage. Put this outside on the ground where the other pigeon can see it and where it has been walking before. Put a feeder next to the on in the cage with pigeon mix. Over the feeder...

That sounds ideal fine so long as you provide plenty of hiding places and some plants / plastic plants / logs etc to provide the pairs of quail with areas they can get away from each other. They like tufts of grass or even balled up hay to hide in too. Their only might be a problem with...

That is very good advise. But, I did not check with a vet. The medication is a herbal natural one for humans.. no chemicals. The vets here will not treat birds and carry no medication for them, so they are not interested. I once took in a rescued wild bird with a broken wing with the bone...