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Thanks! Yes I want to be able to hatch as needed so I want one pen with fertile eggs

The only thing you will be giving up is fertility %. So, if you are more wanting eggs for eating, I would have a pen of 8 hens for...

I do want eggs mostly but I also want to be able to hatch more quail from my own eggs as needed so I want to keep that as an option...

Hey all! I’m new to raising quail and I’ve read that male to female ratio is very important for the quails health and safety. The coop...

Yes they are the ones that the feed supply store suggested but they have since been switched out for pine

Are those cedar shavings? If so I’d switch to pine for quail and rodents, they can give off gases/smells that can be toxic to delicate...

Did you ever figure out what it was? I have 15 babies that are a week and a half old. One has scissor beak and another still looks maybe...

Sorry! It’s their beak. It’s scissor beak and in the last two days it’s become significantly worse

I just noticed that he/she has a slightly misaligned. Could that be the issue? Maybe they’re uncomfortable

I completely agree with you I don’t plan to reorder from them nor recommend them. This was my first time ordering eggs or hatching them...

Yeah it has been really hard emotionally. I tried so hard to keep the babies that were struggling alive but losing half of the ones that...

See I was not aware of that! Thanks for the info!

That might be the problem. Celadons are rather fragile to begin with. My celadons produced about 80% celadon layers. The birds were...

The eggs are supposed to all hatch blue laying hens which when I ordered them I had not educated myself well yet and did not realize was...