Hi,
I am pretty new to raising quail. I started with buttons and failed, then tried coturnix and am doing better.
I tried using a heating pad to hatch a few eggs. I succeeded only to have them die gasping for breath. Read up, started adding acv to their water and it worked. Hatched a couple...
I just saw this post. Hope this can help someone. I had a chick itch splayed legs. I did the easiest thing I could. I got a small bandaid, cut it and used the pad part and taped it with the sticky part. Making a H. It worked for me and wasn’t too hard to do.
My eggs arrived today! I will be starting them tomorrow since I ordered them from eBay. I will be attempting to hatch coturnix eggs. I will also be hatching some from my coturnix, who are getting old. Not so fertile. Hatching about 190-200 eggs. Wish me luck! Sending good karma to all! Happy...
This sounds like an eggcellent idea. I will join if my funky coturnix agrees. I only have 1 male and he is getting old so he isn’t very fertile but sometimes, it works. I hatched 2 and have 5 more keeping me in suspense. I had to help the 2 cause they were stuck. Don’t know why. Humidity was at...
Update:
Lost several batches cause lights went out.
Finally got a coturnix to hatch!
I set a heating pad in a styrofoam box and lined with foil. Then I spread pine shavings over it. I placed eggs in shavings and mixed them around several times daily for 14 days, then I just left them to...
I’m a newbie here. I started with 4 button quail and have 2 left. 1 died and the other got eaten by my dog.
I purchased 6 coturnix but gave 1 away cause it was pecking the eyes of the others. I have 1 make and 4 female now.
I keep 2 pairs, one of buttons and one Coturnix.
The other...