AHA! Just checked the coop...looks like Rolypoly has now laid her first egg!!! Its very pale (not the brown one we expected) & has a half soft shell, there's also a couple of spots of blood nearby. ......but its an egg! her vent seems ok, her haemorrhoid feels a little bit bigger, but she's stil...

Oh its no use, I can't stop worrying! I've just remembered, when my son picked Roly up a few days ago, a puddle of white fluid dripped out of her. I'm worried she may be developing EYP. Or that the respiritory infection she had in 2 months ago may have affected her ability to lay eggs (I read too mu...

Phew! thanks Stace, I'll stop worrying then

http://i474.photobucket.com/albums/rr107/kittyla/Feb2010chickens123-1.jpg Hi, Rolypoly obviously thinks she's not been getting enough attention lately so she's done another weird poop!! This time I definately think its an eggy thing. The sawdust was stained bright yellow & this white lump, abou...

Grannyof4 wrote:. They were the small ones and went to a lady who had an aviary as her "vacuum cleaners".

Thats a nice idea!

oh dear! Did you have to eat them?

I must say it sounds like quails are not that well suited to captivity. I wonder
why they're so popular?
Are they not calmer if they're hand reared?

Are they fairly easy to handle? how long do they live?

I'm interested in this thread. We may be moving in June & will have a bit of land & some sheds. I'm looking for something my ASD teenage son can manage himself, keeping some quails for eggs sounds ideal. We have a relative nearby who's a caterer & may buy the eggs from him. Could anyone ...

He's gone We'll miss him. My son spent half the day cuddling him. But what a smashing home he's got! This family have their little garden stuffed with chickens, ducks & quails, most of them are off to the smallholding land in the morning, & most of them got a good cuddle from my kids before ...

Turns out he'll be going in with some ex batts, they have several flocks with a cockerel each.
And for anyone else who's trying to rehome, all the offers came through pre-loved.

Hooray! yippey! I've had 3 offers of homes for Bubbles!!!!! One is from a couple nearby with a new smallholding, they seem to be collecting poultry & animals, ...because they love them! Its the best home we could find him, but I will miss him. I'll miss his constant chatter as he walks round the...

Both rehomers eat the ones they cant find homes for, one was honest about it one wasnt. So he's not going there! A relative offered to put him with her pheasants, fox safe & fed, but just found out he'll have no coop not even a shed, & there's more snow & ice coming ... just cant do it! ...

Well Roly is fine this morning, & no strange poops in the coop.
Maybe she did eat something poisonous, I dont use slug pellets or anything, but
we do have foxgloves & nightshade about, & little shoots are appearing around the garden. I'll keep an eye on her.

I give her layers pellets in the morning, & sometimes boiled veg with layers mash to munch in the day, then handfulls of corn scattered now & then, & a handfull each before roost time. Should be ok, unless she's picked up a poisonous plant. I'm wondering if these symptoms could be releva...

She's been eating ok, she ate plenty of corn yesterday afternoon. Wasnt too
keen first thing this am, but has been eating ok since then.
Yes I think the green stuff was a bit lumpy, & stringy. I hope this isnt to do with
her hernia.