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    disaster , need advice, premature quail

    Had 13 in the brooder, this morning one had died, they all felt to dry, humidity was at 46% I moved them back to the bator and dipped their beaks in some water, they are recovering. apart from 2 water containers in the brooder, I have added 3 other containers filled with cloth and water to try...
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    I am using game chick pellets

    With early born, should I soak them to soften them?
  3. gregwoods

    disaster , need advice, premature quail

    This morning we have our 4th, they are all small, bit still living, the main hatch should start tuesday/wednesday. I am so surprised that these little fella's came so early, and have survived so far. I have put some chick pellets onto a damp cloth in the hope that they might eat a little. and...
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    disaster , need advice, premature quail

    Many Thanks Buddy Drizzled sugar water over the beak, put some sugar water into a thin container with marbles, and the news is, the first two are over 5 hours old, and we now have number 3. I have scattered chick pellets on the floor of the incubator, and put in wet cloths around the edges...
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    disaster , need advice, premature quail

    It is day 15, 96 quail in the incubator, needed to take out the rocking cradle, tripped, dropped the incubator. lost 30 eggs over the side, all cracked, I put them into my spare incubator thinking they were lost, sorted out those that were not cracked in the original incubator. From the 30...
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    Quails are territiorial!

    Hi Everyone I have made a stupid rookie mistake, I thought I had read all that I needed to, but I evidently missed the bit that says how to introduce quail. I started with 4 quails 3 hens and a roo, spent a month learning about them, and they did well, eggs came within 18 days everything was...
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    Show me your quail pens!!!

    The Cornish Quail Hotel Has It's First Baby! Yes we are all eggstatic here at the Cornish Quail Hotel. The photos below are the bridal suite, then naturally we have featured the expectant mother, The new baby, (it was a huge egg the size of a paint pot nearly!) and finaly the proud father...
  8. gregwoods

    housing quail

    Many Thanks Sniper, I am still new to this,
  9. gregwoods

    housing quail

    Hi, I have just about finished building the quail hotel, at present I have 3 hens and a roo in residence, they have been their for 2 weeks, at the end of this month I will be adding another 30 quail mainly females to the flock, I have 9 breeding cages each of around 10 sq foot, + an indoor run...
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    A seafood diet for quail

    Hi Everyone, I am a quail newbie living near the beach in Cornwall UK I know that quail love meal worm, and that they need protein, on my beach I have limpets, mussels and winkles in beuatiful clean blue atlantic water, is it safe to feed them to my quail as a treat? would the salt content harm...
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