Recent content by quail raiser

I got mine at petrus feed in alexandria louisiana

Mine started around 5 or 6 weeks

I feed 28 percent but the heat has kind of put them off laying right now. Nice to see someone else from louisiana on the site

My brooder has a plywood floor, they could just walk on the wood but its easier to rake the wood shavings out than to scrape the droppings off the wood.

I have a very bright flashlight that i candle with, just get in a dark room and stand the flashlight on its end. I hold the egg with one hand and use the other hand to seal the light around the egg. quick andd easy to get the eggs done and back in the incubator

I use wood shavings from a local sawmill. I put it about 2 inches thick

Texas a&m are coturnix quail so I'm guessing they eat about the same amount. I've raised them before but I've always just kept the feeders full, never really put much thought into how much each one eats

My pen is 10ft by 10ft 7ft tall with pine mulch for bedding. i used to use blasting sand for bedding but the place i was getting it stopped blasting and painting so i had to go out of pocket for the mulch. its actually cleaner. My coturnix are more runners than flyers so no head boinking for...

Word of advice tho, incubating quail is addicting. My wife hates my incubator lol

Incubating quail eggs isn't really as hard as some folks make it out to be. The hardest part of raising quail in my opinion is brooding chicks. I like incubating eggs, got some in the incubator now that are sposed to hatch next week and i haven't a clue what I'm gonna do with them. If you were...

I have my bobwhites in the same pen with my coturnix, the bobs are more aggressive towards each other than with the coturnix but its not too bad. They just puff up and chase each other, not really a lot of fighting

But git them back in your brooder pretty quick because when they get wet it will cool them down and they will need to warm up and dry off pretty quick

How old are the chicks? If they are feathering out they will clean and preen their own feathers, if they are only a few days old you may could just wipe them down with a warm wet towel

They are the same bird. jumbo, brown pharoah, they are all coturnix quail. Pharoah quail is just another name for the coturnix, jumbo are just coturnix that are bred for bigger bodied birds

I incubate my bobs and pharoah in the same bator same settings. Only problem i have is i can't stop shoving more eggs in the darn thing