The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: WoodlandsDevon on May 10, 2014, 06:08:51 pm
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Has any one got any advice.... my quails have started to eat their own eggs :rant:. I know with chickens that you extract the inside of the egg out and inject some mustard but it will probably be nearly impossible with quails eggs :( is there any alternatives????
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lots of bedding so the eggs are hidden from view? try and find the culprit? or smear the eggs with tabasco instead?
nightmare situation.
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sounds like some good ideas!!!! Tabasco sauce.. he he .. cant wait :excited: :unwell: :roflanim:
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Pop some marbles/ appropriate stones in the area they lay. Might help confuse them. ::) ;D
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I decided to leave it and see what would happen and nothing has been eaten since!!! ;D
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Any chance that rats or something like that had eaten the eggs?
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I would have thought so.... it is all enclosed I did actually see the quails eating the eggs but seeing as it hasn't happened since, I think they must have just found some cracked eggs and eaten them rather than cracking them themselves.
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My quail have eaten a couple of eggs but like everything with them it does seem to be random rather than a habitual thing. They peck an already cracked egg and end up eating it but it doesn't seem to turn them into egg eaters.