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    Who's Setting Eggs This Week[end]? [August 8-14]

    I set 14 bantam cochin eggs and 60 coturnix eggs on the 15th. All 14 cochin eggs are fertile and out of 30 of the coturnix I only had three bad ones and one ROD. I love my Hova Bator. I think I am gonna do 120 more quail and put a few more chicken eggs on soon as well. TO YOU GUYS WITH...
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    quail chicks dying in brooder

    I don't really know how many. I would say out of about fifty I have lost at least twenty in about five days to a week. They just seem to go from eating and drinking to laying down under the lamp and dying. I believe it could be fowl cholera or quail bronchitis, but I am really not sure as the...
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    quail chicks dying in brooder

    I inspected one that looked lethargic just now, clear mucus in the mouth with a clicking sound when it opens its beak
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    quail chicks dying in brooder

    The cycle refuses to be broken. I checked on them this morning and I had another dead. He was a younger one. I physically opened his beak and he has the clear mucous in the back of his throat. This could not have come at a worse time. I am seriously thinking of culling all of them because I...
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    quail chicks dying in brooder

    Thanks Shannon The quail are between one and three weeks old. They were inside, but I have since moved them outside to an outdoor brooder with a wire floor to clear the way for the fifty or so chicks I have in the incubator right now. I did not want the new chicks to catch whatever it is, if...
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    quail chicks dying in brooder

    hello, I am having issues with my quail chicks dying in the brooder. I have been finding dead ones almost everyday. I believe it to be some type of disease, and not coccidiosis. It mainly affects the younger chicks but I had an older one dead today. Today i picked up a few and noticed they...
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    I want to see your outdoor brooders!!!

    Thanks for the replies everyone. kbreak our designs are very similar, down to the two sawhorses I am going to sit mine on. My sides are all 1/4 in plywood though. I was thinking a draft guard all the way to the ground would be the way to go. I will drill about three or four 1 inch holes at...
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    I want to see your outdoor brooders!!!

    I am currently building an outdoor brooder and I wanted to see how everyone else had built theirs. I want to be able to keep my chicks outside after about a week. I have built a 2" X 6" box out of two by fours and 1/4 in plywood. It stands 30 in tall and will have a wire floor, 1/3 of it 1/4...
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    Quail Chicks with deformed feet

    The one with the curled foot does have some splayed leg going on. I just find it odd that both times I have incubated old eggs the chicks have had issues with curled feet and splayed legs. One more has hatched and he seems to have issues with one foot as well, but his may straighten out like...
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    Quail Chicks with deformed feet

    I have quail eggs hatching in the bator right now. Two have hatched so far and the both have feet issues. The first to hatch has a slightly curled toe on each foot and the second has some bent toes and one bad foot. I have heard all of the reasons for bad hatches like this, but I have never...
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    Breeding Pens/Cages

    I also put coated pvc wire in for floors, but stapled it to the bottom of the cage so there are no boards for the birds to poop on. I built it for my quail but it would work for bantams too. here is one with the doors open.
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    Breeding Pens/Cages

    The entire pen is 8' by 2' with two 4 by 2 breeding pens. I made it where the divider in the center can slide out. I am wanting to finish bracing the leggs and add wheels to make it moveable.
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    Hole in Abdomen. My dog attacked the coop and got a chicken

    Awesome presentation. I have three quail that were attacked by a hawk though the bottom of their coop. One has a puncture that is just smaller than a dime in her body cavity and I can see her insides as well. This has been three days ago and I am treating them with peroxide and perscription...
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    Can a hawk bite or claw through hardware cloth?

    I am almost positive a hawk can bite through the floor of a cage with 1/2 inch hardware cloth. I had one today wound three of my quail through coated 1/2 in.
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