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  1. rita

    photos of my quails

    http://i68.tinypic.com/vxl003.jpg update on my quails. they are growing nicely, i will have to start sorting out the boys from the girls tomorrow.
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    lock down

    well i am now in lock down, so fingers crossed that i have some little quails by the weekend. :D
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    some more eggs coming this week

    hello :-)99 well i am going to hatch some more quai eggs this week. i have fawn, cream, silver and platinum tuxedo from one lady. another lot which are cinnamon, tibetan, golden, rosetta tuxedo. so hopefully i will have a lovely mix of colours and a more friendly quail then the bobwhites. i...
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    photo of my mexican bobwhite.

    http://i64.tinypic.com/2yyvzn6.jpg
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    today is the day

    well my bobwhites are due to hatch today. very anxious that none will hatch. i know its not a good time to try and hatch eggs in the winter and they travelled from Ireland and Essex in the post. i had 36 and i am now left with 9 in the lock down. i know 3 are alive when i locked down not sure...
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    what to put into the quail pen

    hello not kept quails for a long time now. but I am back, hubby has built a 6 foot by 3 foot pen for my quails. I am hatching out some Mexican eggs. what does everyone put in their pens to keep them entertained, these quails will be pets and hopefully some nice eggs to eat.
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    chicken with dandruff and all fluffed up

    hi i have 3 chickens that have plenty of room to run around in they have access to grass and two dust baths. my bluebell has lost lots of feathers and lots around her bum area so it is bare, the other two sometimes peck at her feathers, i picked her up today to check her out and she has lots of...
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    chicken with dandruff.

    hi my bluebell chicken has lost lots of feathers with new feathers coming through but she is not herself, the other chickens keep pecking at her feathers and when i picked her up today i noticed she is covered in dandruff, does anyone know what is causing this, i have kept chickens for 15 years...
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    need help with duck limping

    hi i was wondering if anyone on here could give me some advice please on my silver appleyard duck limping. she has always had a limp, i kept her on crumb to long when she hatched and she also had angel wing which i corrected with tape. but yesterday i noticed that she didn't walk at all and i...
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    fighting

    well i have put the quails inside the shed and i have noticed that one is being picked on, they were all hatched together, have always been together never have been separated, so i don't understand why. before i moved them inside i thought it was strange how 2 quails were always inside the house...
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    fly

    well my quail flew across the field again, she is becoming a Houdini for escaping. thank goodness that she is easy to catch, when i get in the field to collect her, she just squats down low. they are all looking good, all summer outside in the run, but will be putting them inside the shed over...
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    red mite hopefully all gone

    well i have been infested with red mite in the chicken house again, we burnt the last one about 8 months ago so i am not burning this one. for 4 weeks now every day i have cleaned out their house i only put in hay in the nesting box i then clean it out and burn it straight away, i then spray...
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    this weather

    don't know about you but i am so fed up with this weather, i have to keep the big water proof cover on the quails run so i can't spend as much time with them, i wish i could keep them indoors. it's got to get better soon. they are all laying in their house which is great and easy for me to...
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    are Japanese quails monogamous

    i ask this question because my male only mates with one female, even tho there are 4 to pick from, he sticks to this one female like her shadow, and it's the same as my other male. i thought that they would mate with all the girls and not just stick to one, has anyone else found this in their...
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    photo's

    now they are adults here are some more photo's of them.
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    2 males

    well after i sold my beautiful redhead quail and bought two new girls(or so i thought) i now have 2 boys in with my group. i have a redhead quail which i thought was a girl is a male and one of the new one's that i bought a lovely cream coloured one is a male, they all seem very happy together...
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    eggs

    i can't believe it i found 2 eggs in their house today, they had laid them in there nest box with hay, i can't believe it i didn't know that they laid in boxes like chickens i thought they would be like my ducks and lay them every where, what good little quails they are. :-)08 :D i don't know...
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    fox

    i woke up last night to the quails flapping about i had the windows all open as its another hot night and the quails pen is by my bedroom window, there was mr. fox on the quail pen obviously trying to find a way in, i put the torch on him and he just stared at me he didn't run off straight away...
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    new girls

    Well i have sold my male and now have 2 new girls. when i got home i started to regret selling my male, he was so sweet but it is done now. anyway the girls are here and there have been some squabbling so i have separated them up. how long will i have to keep the barrier up between them all...
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    for sale red headed quail

    does anyone want a male red headed quail all the way from Bulgaria. He is a lovely quail but i have decided i am only going to keep the girls as i am not interested in breeding them.
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