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    The feather sex was wrong!

    Oh interesting! Maybe some kind of intersex bird? I've had two jumbo brown males that got red chest feathers but kept all their chest spots into adulthood as well. Culled so I didn't have to deal with them passing those confusing genetics on to any babies! Those were in my first ever set of...
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    No Waste Quail Chick Feeder

    Oh that's clever, I'll need to try that with my chicks!
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    Female quail crowing?

    Oh noooo yeah crowing is only done by the males. Girls usually sound like tribbles or crickets when you can hear them at all, they're such quiet ladies most of the time. Are you familiar with the crowing noise, aka have you had quail before? Fingers crossed one of your girls just decided to...
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    How do you mark or band new quail chicks?

    Aaah, I see the concern. I just use regular ones and cut them off right next to the tie part, which leaves virtually no way for the quail to accidentally tighten it themselves. I've never had an issue with it.
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    How do you mark or band new quail chicks?

    Cheap Amazon ones, zip ties are zip ties. ;)
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    How do you mark or band new quail chicks?

    Little colored zip ties work well. Just make sure to check them weekly to make sure they're not too tight, they'll need re-banding once or twice more as they grow!
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    Worried about chicks not going under heat plate

    They'll figure it out, no worries. If any of them are screaming outside the plate, just tuck them back under until they get it. Otherwise like Nabiki said, they'll go in and out as they will. As far as distress signs: if they're underneath and making a ton of noise, lower an end a little so...
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    Wire floor or bedding?

    We can get to -30F or lower in my area. I had my quail on wood pellets until December this winter, which worked great above freezing, but on days below freezing the bedding turned into a solid poop ice cube that didn't allow for the birds to snuggle down into it at all, and which turned to mush...
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    Quail bachelor flocks?

    In the future you may wish to avoid hatching eggs, and only buy confirmed hens and boys you can provide species-appropriate housing for. If you leave the boy in with your pigeon, watch carefully to make sure he doesn't rough it up once his hormones kick in. Roosters without enough hens can and...
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    Runny yolk in incubator

    How did you realize it was dead at day 5? I have never thought to check for dead chicks that early and would have no idea what to even look for
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    Setting up a makeshift brooder

    Do you use them from hatching, or wait until the chicks are older? Love pellets with my adult birds but I'm worried newly hatched chicks will get stupid and try to eat the sawdust from crumbling pellets. Also, do you do anything special to control the dust? Mine are on a porch and I am NOT...
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    Setting up a makeshift brooder

    That's the exact one I use for brooding, works just fine once you put in the (cat proof) covered air vents. I personally do mine in the lid (no need to make a separate lid, you can just cut a hole in the one it comes with and zip-tie on some hardware cloth) since I don't want to affect the...
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    Quail and Sod

    I toss them things from my garden, like pea pods and squash leaves. In the fall I gave them whole vines after harvest and they ran around the cage playing tug of war, highly recommend, lol
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    Quail and Sod

    I would grow the grass from seed if I were you, there's no way those perfect sod plots with only grass on them WEREN'T grown with pesticides. Make two or three planters, and you can rotate them out before the birds totally kill them!
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    Can i breed jumbo quail from standards?

    Of course! That's where the other jumbo lines started. Good luck, and may the genetic lottery be most favorable for you
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