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Quail Flying

sara | January 6, 2011

Quail keepers sometimes find that their quail will fly upwards and injure themselves or can fly out of a pen if the pen doesn’t have adequate roofing or even escape via the door of a hut.

Quail will demonstrate a vertical flight movement. This vertical flight can occur when quail are:

frightened or
startled by a noise, predator, [...]

Duck With a Limp

sara | January 3, 2011

I am often asked about what may have caused a duck to limp.
It can be quite common for a duck to have a limp, as quite a few of the members on the farmingfriends duck forum have had a duck with a limp.

Reasons for a duck limping:

It can sometimes be due to a knock,
broken [...]

The Best Of Farming Friends 2010

sara | January 2, 2011

As we welcome in the new year I thought it would be a good idea to take a look back over the website articles and pick out some of the best.
But before I give you my favourites, I’d just like to wish all the farmingfriends visitors, readers and customers a very prosperous New Year.

The farmingfriends [...]