So excited for the upcoming videos!

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there and thanks so much for your comment - i really hope this works out! Love from Normandie, Sue xx

My fingers are crossed. Looking forward to the next videos. Laura M.

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Laura. I'm hoping everything will be OK and that we'll get something on the 3rd or 4th! Seemingly Patience thinks so, as she's a very determined sitter. Love from Normandie, Sue xx

Looking forward to being on your hen quail video journey with you. Love your videos they are always creative, joyful, educational and insightful. Cant wait !

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there, great to hear from you as always and thank you so much for your lovely comments! So far so good when I lifted Patience off the nest this morning - there were four tiny chicks! Two must have hatched in the night and two were just emerging! They are early by a day so I better get my editing done asap! Much love from sunny Normandie, Sue xx

I forgot to say that I used your videos to educate myself on looking after the quails

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Aaw thank you so much for letting me know - that makes me really happy! All the very best Sue xx

Great news. Cheers 👍

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there and thank you so much for your encouragement - much appreciated as always. All the very best, Sue xx

Lovely hens and chicks. My quail are hatching their own. I had 13 hatched under one Japanese quail. Another one brooding at the moment. I always thought this was difficult. Great mother.

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Irene and Well Done! Having quail hatch their own chicks is fantastic. Quail are great mothers and they do understand the needs of the chicks, which are different to hen chicks. However, I have had some hens that are wonderful with quail and do quickly comprehend that they need to be treated differently but it is certainly much better if you can get a quail to hatch and brood quail but it is still a very rare occurrence. Again really well done and thank you so much for sharing that -and hope you will film or write about it because it helps others and does a great service to quail too! All the very best from Normandie, Sue xx

Thats amazing that she adopted them as her own. I have had full sized hens raise bantam chicks but not quail

@Pavlovafowl

Жыл бұрын

Hens are amazing, they will just about raise anything, ducks, pheasants and mine will even co-parent baby pigeons. All the very best, Sue

I am so excited to see this!! Your videos gave me courage to allow my broody Silkie to “adopt” my new chicken chicks and, while this was VERY easy for me…the chicks are terrified of me!! (The mama would *only* let ME handle the chicks-which I did several times a day!) We are planning to get quail and my Silkies are routinely broody…so I’m curiously watching to see how you do it! Any advice about getting the wee ones to be more used to humans, aside from holing them, treats, interacting with them haha, would be GREATLY appreciated!! I’ll be watching anxiously!! You are one of my favorites to follow!! Thank you for what you do!

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind comments - they are really appreciated and you are so welcome. In my experience, at the beginning of a hatch, the way the chick reacts to us, is usually imprinted on it by the Mother but some chicks are more predisposed to this than others, with certain chicks not even eating until the mother 'says so'. As time goes on chicks can change their behaviour towards you but the quickest and in my experience, the best way is to firstly gain or re-gain the Mother's trust and that will then impact on the chicks. Sometimes hatching and of course being broody, can make a normally calm and friendly hen change her reactions towards us, so that relationships needs to be rebuilt and I find hand-feeding the mother and talking to her usually calms things down. However, as with everything natural in this life, there are no set rules and I have had really tame and friendly chicks with a nervous and wary mother, purely because their confidence has already been gained, probably because they know I supply the food but often because the chicks don't naturally have nervous dispositions unless the mother is overtly so but again these are only guidelines! In general though, I don't like to come between a hen and her chickens because that can cause further problems so I tend to offer additional and interesting foods by first presenting them to the Mother hen to distribute. I've found meal worms are a great ice-breaker in human and hen/chick hen relations, the chicks love to eat them and the mother hen is so pleased to have a rest from foraging/hunting, in particular if she has a large brood. Digging up earth and looking under moss and branches for food can also be a great joint exercise that can help cement relations between you, the mother and the chicks, so much so that it can become a full time job with them following you every time you pick up a fork or trowel but it makes for a great bonding exercise. Re quail, do you have bantam Silkies because the standard version maybe rather to large for such tiny chicks? However you could partly use a brooder for when they are eating in the first two weeks - I'm hoping to show this in my series of films. Hope this is of use - 4 chicks hatched this morning - they are a day in advance - so as you see, there are no set rules in nature! All the very best and really good luck with your chicks, Sue xx

Hello, I've been following your videos for a while and I got quail two years ago. I've been trying to free range them but it failed, I got lots of losses, so they lived in an aviary. a few months ago a rat got into it and killed most of them, there were only two left and last night one of them died.... I love these little birds so much but realize I cannot take care if the remaining one as well as she deserves! She's a beautiful quail, was raised my a hen, healthy and smart. I was wondering if I could bring her to you so that she could have a happy life with friends. She's one year old and her name is Mogette. Would it be possible for you to welcome her? Thank you lots and lots, greetings from Brittany, Daphné

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Daphné, I am so sorry about your quail, it is such a shame but rats are terrible around quail and once they get in then will cause devastation. Ironically a rat gnawed right through into my quail run last night (the first time in 5 years since it was built) but I'd got my quail in the house overnight as they are still quite small and my adult quail are in another area. Here is my email, so contact me and we'll see if we can meet half way and Mogette can come and live here - Pavlovafowl@protonmail.com I am in La baie du Mont Saint Michel. All the very best Sue xx

That's so cute. I heard that chickens and quail shouldn't mix because chickens carry diseases that quail are more vulnerable to. Are you not worried about this?

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Jonny, I started this adventure in 2000 with one of my then two Ardenner hens, from a total flock of three! How things change! I've never thought of hens as carrying disease or quail as being fragile, except as chicks they can get trodden on by the hen in the first few days. However, battery/CAFO hens get fed such poor quality food and are under such stress and in horrible conditions that I can imagine they have perpetuated the idea of disease as so many die from deficiency and toxins. Plus too many quail lived caged under stress and again on an incorrect and if eating industrial grain, then on a pesticide-laden diet, so they won't be very healthy either. Quail are tough little birds if you feed them their wild diet and keep them in a natural environment and they get on well with hens when they are chicks and learn an incredible amount from them, including they seem to recover their natural instincts to nest and raise their own young. This is my experience over 20 years and much of it is documented on film and on my site - holistic-hen.blogspot.com All the very best from Normandie, Sue xx

@jonnynice8366

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pavlovafowl Thanks. I'd like to raise some quail myself someday, and you're a great source of inspiration.

I was going to watch these but there's just too much explaining going on

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Just turn down the sound and put your favourite music on - these particular films are meant to go into extreme detail for people who want to have a go at doing this but it is a shame for you to miss seeing the wonderful baby quail with their mother hen - I have four hatched so far, two Pharaoh and two Golden aka Isabelle. All the very best from Normandie, Sue