Thank you both for your replies. Do you think this might be just a case of not being used to their new home? And anyone with any experience with quails, is it wise to move them into the enclosed room at night to try to encourage them or is it best to just leave them to it?
I dont mind where...
5 females and one male, 5 weeks old. I'm keeping them in a rabbit hutch kind of thing in the back garden. It's fairly spacious. It has one "bedroom" that I have put straw in and the male is sleeping in there right now. Its well protected from the elements in there. My 5 females are outside in...
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95 - 98 degrees for the first week...then I reduce the temperature about 5 degrees per week until they are feathered out...then its outside, providing it isn't the middle of the winter.
Wait this is farenheit right ?
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95 - 98 degrees for the first week...then I reduce the temperature about 5 degrees per week until they are feathered out...then its outside, providing it isn't the middle of the winter.
ok thanks !!
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set your brooder up before your chicks arrive...turn your light on and keep a thermometer in the bottom of the brooder...If it too hot raise the light or switch to a smaller bulb...If its too cool lower the light or get a bigger bulb...better to have these details figured out before...
Would anyone advise using a lower watt bulb in the brooder first instead of just going from a 100w bulb to no bulb ?
Hope this is clear, it sounded alrite in my head
Oh wait i just realised you move the bulb or make it dimmer for less heat..
Never mind
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They need some time to see each other without getting hurt. I put mine in a small coop next to the hens run. They have that time to get used to seeing each other. I wait until they are about the same size (14 weeks or so) then add them in at night. The first 2 weeks is tough, mostly...
How old do young ones generally have to be before putting them in with older hens ?
Thanks
-Toddy
p.s. im sorry if this was in this thread somewhere, i must have missed it