Comments on: Quail Housing Requirements http://farmingfriends.com/quail-housing-requirements/ Meet the animals and harvest the information without getting your hands dirty! Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:51:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: sara http://farmingfriends.com/quail-housing-requirements/comment-page-1/#comment-329 sara Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:50:24 +0000 http://farmingfriends.com/?p=915#comment-329 Hi Junior, Sorry to hear that one of your quail has died. I have had a few of my quail that have had egg binding. I would say that it is quite common as quail lay alot of eggs and start laying from 6 weeks old. They are also a small bird to churn out an egg a day so I am not surprised that they get egg bound. If you reduce the photoperiod (length of daylight) the quail get then they will reduce their egg laying and this may help to stop the egg binding but unfortunately you won't get so many eggs. I have read that making sure the quail hen has adequate protein, calcium, selenium, and vitamins A and E in her feed can help prevent egg binding as dietary insufficiencies can lead to egg binding. I will have a look to see if I can find any quail for sale near Somerset. Hope this helps. Kind regards Sara @ farmingfriends Hi Junior,
Sorry to hear that one of your quail has died. I have had a few of my quail that have had egg binding. I would say that it is quite common as quail lay alot of eggs and start laying from 6 weeks old. They are also a small bird to churn out an egg a day so I am not surprised that they get egg bound.
If you reduce the photoperiod (length of daylight) the quail get then they will reduce their egg laying and this may help to stop the egg binding but unfortunately you won’t get so many eggs.
I have read that making sure the quail hen has adequate protein, calcium, selenium, and vitamins A and E in her feed can help prevent egg binding as dietary insufficiencies can lead to egg binding.
I will have a look to see if I can find any quail for sale near Somerset.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards
Sara @ farmingfriends

]]> By: junior http://farmingfriends.com/quail-housing-requirements/comment-page-1/#comment-328 junior Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:30:29 +0000 http://farmingfriends.com/?p=915#comment-328 how can you stop egg binding and are there any female quail near somerset for sale for cheap how can you stop egg binding and are there any female quail near somerset for sale for cheap

]]> By: junior http://farmingfriends.com/quail-housing-requirements/comment-page-1/#comment-327 junior Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:58:49 +0000 http://farmingfriends.com/?p=915#comment-327 hi I went out to see to my aviaries today and I have found one of my quail dead. We've had a lot of snow recently so I thought it was because of that but she had actually died of egg binding. Is this common in young quail? thankyou junior hi

I went out to see to my aviaries today and I have found one of my quail dead.
We’ve had a lot of snow recently so I thought it was because of that but she had actually died of egg binding. Is this common in young quail?

thankyou junior

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