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I just use the regular ones in the green bag!

I don't add water to them. I just leave them as pellets. It soaks up the spilt water so quick and dries nicely. I'm sure it would compost good. I don't compost though. I have no experience composting! Sorry I'm no help on that.

that's probably gonna be me!

Congrats! We are only on day 4! We still have a while!

I planned on hatching eggs, selling and of course eating. Would one that's a year old be too tough?

I was going to try to do an automatic water system with either the nipples or the cups. Which would be better or does it matter? I worry about the nipples constantly dripping but the cups might be too hard for the little quail too figure out. Decisionso decisions.

You have to try the pellets. I love them! I was hesitant at first but it's so much easier to clean in my big brooder and I almost never saw poop on them(even when I had close to 200 in there, including 8 turkey poults). It seems to absorb really quick. It's my go to for brooding.

Y'all are great! Thank you so much. On to a totally different topic, should I put leg bands on my birds? I think they'd be eaiser to tell apart. And what age do they generally start to lose productivity?

Thank you so much!

I started a thread similar to this one. I was told that the poop can harden on the wire and cut their feet and it can give them bumble foot.

And if you have any more advice or anything you think I'll need to know just throw it in there. I'm all for learning!

I need to compost but I don't know where to start! I have tons of questions about them and I'm sure I'll have more! As far as hatching everyone has told me it's the same as chickens. With chickens I have the best success dry hatching and only adding water during lock down. Is that ok for...

If you don't mind me asking, what do you do with the dirty straw?

Thank y'all for all the great advice! Only 14 more days till they hatch!

See, I don't really want to use wire either. I imagine it must hurt their feet. But I was told they do best like that. I planned on eating the extra males(we'll see how that goes lol) and I read that they can get worms and it'll mess up the meat. Back to bedding lol. Maybe I could use straw...

I might have to find another way to brood them. My border is probably about 3 feet tall maybe taller, it's pretty long too. I got it for free so I never got exact measurements. I usually use the pellet type shavings in my brooder because it's to big to use paper towels. I think I'll downsize and...

Thank you so much. I was kinda confused on that part!

Thank you so much! I put about 8 eggs under her and have close to 90 in the incubator. Brooder wise, I have one that I use for chicks. It can hold 100 day old chicks easy. Is that gonna be too big for the quail?

Also what size do I need the cages to be?

I have a couple of questions for y'all. So today I bought some quail eggs because my broody hen was sitting on nothing. Will the quail be ok for her to raise or are they too "fraigle"? I will add that she's a pretty small Serama. I don't know if this matters but I got a couple of different types...