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It's been a hot couple of days so I gave my girls a treat. Or at least tried to. I put a quarter of a mini watermelon in their run and they all screamed and ran from it. All 5 of them were squashed in a corner of the run trying to melt themselves through the fence to get away from the dreaded...

Hi fellow peeps! I bought 7 buff orpington chicks from a feed store and at 3 weeks it looks like maybe 2 might be boys. They are the slowest feathering (almost no tail feathers so far), larger combs starting to get pinkish and one of them is very aggressive and tends to push around the others...

So a while ago I ordered a bunch of jumbo brown quail eggs online, eggs arrived, hatched them etc etc. At 2 weeks it looked to be 85% males hatched maybe. At 12 weeks it was a bit hard to tell as only a few of them had chests that were fully bright orange and bib, the rest had some bright orange...

Hi all! My flock of Buff Orpingtons are currently 5 months old. One of them has a comb and wattle larger than the rest, is this one a male? I bought them from a feed store back in July so there is a chance they are not all hens. No crowing yet though.

Hi all! I was wondering what would result if I bred the coturnix hens from my group of late layers (they started laying at 11 weeks, smallish jumbos of ~10oz) with my regular quail (started laying around 6 weeks). Would the resulting hens also be mostly late layers or regular? Or does it...

Hi all, I have 3 gorgeous silver male coturnix quails looking for a home. They have good temperaments (2 are sons, 1 is the father - he is a gentleman roo who tidbits when I give him mealworms). The father quail (silver tuxedo) is 3 months old, his sons are 4 weeks old but one of them is the...

We are rehoming 5 quail hens as more hatched than we had expected. They are reddish-brown hens (Scarlets), approximately 8 weeks old and lay eggs every day (too many eggs for us to eat!!!). They are calm, quiet and love watermelon and dried mealworms. Very low maintenance, can house them in your...

I have a young male (slightly over 7 weeks). He is living with 6 females, seemed to get along. This morning I found a female (one of his favorites) with her head bloody, the wound is almost a dime size. Should I cull the roo? Seems kinda brutal to damage a hen that badly when there's 6 girls for...

Hi there! I hatched some chickens from grocery eggs but cannot tell if they are male or female. These are Rhode Island Red/White Leghorn crosses (I checked with the farm they came from). They are almost 5 weeks old. Am I correct to presume the one on the left is a male and the one in the right...

I recently added 2 younger quails (still chicks, around 5-6 weeks old) to my flock of 6. The flock has 1 male and 5 females. The male chases the new younger quails (they are much smaller than him) and constantly tries to mount them and they freak out causing him to tear out clumps of bald...

I moved my quails out of their brooder and into a large dog crate today. Gave them a box to hide in and the whole entire group went to sleep in there... What are some good quail toys? Do they like fake plastic plants? Any suggestions for their setup?

Hi all! After some postage delay I finally received some ebay eggs packed really poorly (odd since the seller had such glowing reviews). 25 eggs bought - 17 cracked/broken. So I don't know when these were cracked - whether at the beginning of their journey or right before they arrived. I've...

Hi everyone! Have any of you ever had an egg hatch super late? If so what was the latest? First time hatcher here! I'm currently at day 18, was expecting none of my eggs to hatch haha. I purchased 12 coturnix quail eggs from ebay - seller sent 7 extra ones. I am using the Janoel12/Magicfly...