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Here is her eating. And the one where she is headless is after she tried to drink. She can't really get out of the twisted position by herself I've noticed.

Update- I took her out of the neck brace to go to bed tonight. She was standing and eating by herself (head sideways) and tried drinking but when she tried to jerk her neck to swallow it forced her beck to snap back into the backwards and upside down twisted position. So I syringe fed her water...

Also, after further palpating, it seems the crux of the twisting is directly where her skull meets the top her her spine. Even with the 'brace' I made, her head is super crooked but her neck is straight. I can straighten it, but it requires a good amount of force. She tolerates it but doesnt...

Hey. So my sweet girl got injured yesterday/today. And it was my fault. :( I didn't find out until this afternoon, but last night when I went to check on my birds, and when shutting the coop door, she must have gotten caught and her neck was bent terribly and she was stuck until I opened their...

Frizzle is a cockerel. #2 I'm leaning cockerel as well. They feather slower in general. #3 looks like a light brahma pullet

It's a cockerel for sure.

My sweet turkey! She's a broad breasted bronze. The speckles on her eggs range from baby pink to mauve to reddish beige. My favorite are the pink!

I had a broody hen reject an egg, kicked it right out of her nest to the ground outside. It sat over night I would guess, in about 45 degree weather. About 16 days along. I brought it inside to my incubator that was running another hatch. The egg was a deep moss olive color, so I couldn't...

Entry #3 Same eggs as entry #2, but in evening overcast lighting.

#2 in window bright daylight

#1 Olive Delight! (Shaded bright window light)

They are 3 weeks exactly. Sorry forgot to mention that.

I've got 6. To my extremely inexperienced eyes, based off of 5 minutes on google, I think there are 5 gals and a male? I'll label the pics with numbers. I believe they are the Pharoah coloring? Are they jumbo or the smaller kind? I got them from rural king, so hoovers. It just said 'quail' lol.

She does look extra fancy. Her dark beak is so striking!

Sooooo gorgeous! I am so hoping this is what mine is!!