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Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: Tensing on November 22, 2006, 20:38

Title: Sexing Quail
Post by: Tensing on November 22, 2006, 20:38

Muntjac, what you like at sexing quail, I'm sure you'll be able to help.

Our Quail are now 5 weeks old.

I have posted a picture or 2 of each quail on my blog.

http://hatchingeggsandchicks.blogspot.com/

Title: Sexing Quail
Post by: muntjac on November 22, 2006, 20:41

sorry tensing i dont bother with them ,if they lay eggs they females or cocks with a problem .i only eat them when they big enough to fit on a fork  :lol:  :wink:

Title: Sexing Quail
Post by: Tensing on November 22, 2006, 21:04

Thanks, Muntjac, you're as bad as my son, he keeps picking them up and asking when he can eat them.

Title: Sexing Quail
Post by: muntjac on November 29, 2006, 19:13

saw some jap quail in the forge shopping centre in glasgow .pet shop selling them today ,weediest blooming things about as big as a banty chick £20 each ? i wouldnt give 20 p fer the lot they sat in the corner i could tell the was to dam hot with the light in a 2ft by 1ft tank.i told the guy they was suffering . i thought selling animals frrom pet shops was baned :twisted:  :x

Title: Sexing Quail
Post by: Tensing on November 30, 2006, 09:08

Quote from: "muntjac"

saw some jap quail in the forge shopping centre in glasgow .pet shop selling them today ,weediest blooming things about as big as a banty chick £20 each ? i wouldnt give 20 p fer the lot they sat in the corner i could tell the was to dam hot with the light in a 2ft by 1ft tank.i told the guy they was suffering . i thought selling animals frrom pet shops was baned :twisted:  :x

It makes you sick doesn't it?

I believe the only animals they have to be licenced to sell are cats and dogs. So other animals go on suffering. I was in our local pet shop the other day (I only go in we are desperate) and they have a back room with the animals in, the room has large windows so gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter, any way she had a tank of gerbils and two of them were covered in blood, so I told her and she just said they had been fighting it was fine. She always has tanks of fish being treted for some ailment or another, and people board their rabboits and guinea pigs there when they are away so potentially you have alsorts of bugs coming in.