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Thank you! So for the adult quail I’m having to use a light bulb and heater since it’s still too cold to open the garage even during the day. My sleep schedule got a little messed up which messed up theirs but I just shut off the lights after being on for six hours and will turn them back on at 7am. (Update, turned them on at 7am)
As far as my brooders, I’m currently using a cardboard box with a towel on the floor and paper towel on top for my main brooder. It’s holding 23 chicks which I plan to make a larger brooder for since they’re entering week 2. Unless you think it’s fine.
Then I have a secondary one I set up for isolation which is a desert reptile starter kit from pet smart that I had laying around. It’s small but I modified it to achieve 90+ degrees with cooler areas and some shade. Im keeping three that are healthy but two hatched late and 1 has a very strong bond with me. I use paper towel for that as well.
And the third brooder I set up a few days ago to further isolate two that were originally with the other three, one has a strong bond with me but developed wry neck, the other doesn’t bond with me but has the swollen foot.
My quail cage is bad, it is the old cage of the guy who gave me the quail, and it has plywood floor base with nowhere for poop to go besides their toes. A while back I built a nice four layer cage for them but made the same mistake of putting plywood as the flooring so that turned out to be an excellent brooder, but I have to wait for the weather to warm up. Now I have to build a new cage for them which will have wire mesh as the floor and a poop tray to catch all that poop. Easier said than done but I do have experience building cages, I’ve just been procrastinating a lot on that.
As far as my brooders, I’m currently using a cardboard box with a towel on the floor and paper towel on top for my main brooder. It’s holding 23 chicks which I plan to make a larger brooder for since they’re entering week 2. Unless you think it’s fine.
Then I have a secondary one I set up for isolation which is a desert reptile starter kit from pet smart that I had laying around. It’s small but I modified it to achieve 90+ degrees with cooler areas and some shade. Im keeping three that are healthy but two hatched late and 1 has a very strong bond with me. I use paper towel for that as well.
And the third brooder I set up a few days ago to further isolate two that were originally with the other three, one has a strong bond with me but developed wry neck, the other doesn’t bond with me but has the swollen foot.
My quail cage is bad, it is the old cage of the guy who gave me the quail, and it has plywood floor base with nowhere for poop to go besides their toes. A while back I built a nice four layer cage for them but made the same mistake of putting plywood as the flooring so that turned out to be an excellent brooder, but I have to wait for the weather to warm up. Now I have to build a new cage for them which will have wire mesh as the floor and a poop tray to catch all that poop. Easier said than done but I do have experience building cages, I’ve just been procrastinating a lot on that.