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    Sources for prebuilt cages

    Just seeing if anyone found anything I havnt as far as cage systems for quail. Folowing 2 i have some experience with. Personally I prefer GQF 5 tier system over wynola. Wynola does provide a free automatic water system. However I found the quality of GQF to be far superior from the wynola...
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    Comment by 'Darkestcon' in item 'GFQ Cabinet Egg Incubators'

    depends on how cold it is out there. Obviously if its hotter inside then the system has no way to cool. If it doesnt get TOOOO cold then youd probably be fine.
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    Review by '' on item 'Game Bird and Poultry Grow Pen'

    Same as my brooder review. I would say it holds 24 birds or so. to clean it you have to make sure its not stacked or at least they are all empty. Plexi glass needs to be popped out to clean the tracks. Its wide and deep enough that reaching the birds can be difficult id recommend 2 people. Can...
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    Review by '' on item 'GFQ Heated Box Poultry Brooder'

    Price is fair and the system is well built. Easy to assemble and operates fantastic. Would recommend shopping around as the manufacturer charges the most for shipping. Manufacturer states 100 birds at a time for 4 weeks. I think this is a stretch at 2 weeks 90 birds were pretty cramped and 1...
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    weigh in starting 1 week and egg production

    week 2 largest of them was 3.2 oz smallest being 2.2 so 2.7 average at 13 days old
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    Your flock size

    Yes im in the US. Im in Oregon. The butcher buys our birds live. I dont have licensing to butcher my own birds and wont attempt it out of my shed no matter how nice my shed is. So a way around this is that the butcher shop having a license can buy live animals (no license required) and butcher...
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    Incubating and discouraged

    TRUE
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    Incubating and discouraged

    People say a lot of things tbh. Ive seen people say 40-70 percent. I would look at your sources. By no means am i implying i should be your source. When and if i have questions i contact bigger well known sources like James Marie Farms and ask them. I find the guy who ships out 38,000 + eggs a...
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    Incubating and discouraged

    So i scanned this tbh. I see your concerned about your eggs. Just curious why your humidity is 40 percent? Talking with James Marie Farms they recommend 50-55 percent humidity temperature at 100. He actually recommends a dry hatch meaning dont raise humidity. for a wet hatch 60 for humidity...
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    Your flock size

    Depends on the information you are looking for. We sell eggs meat and chicks. We sell eggs to a produce store as they have their own certs so we need none. We sell our meat to butcher shops on a repeating order. We do this because they have certs and we dont. In this way we need none. We sell...
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    Your flock size

    I will throw out what we WERE at and what we are now getting back to. We had to start over due to a 3 month break because of some life things we had occur. I dont know if this is what you would consider "production level". Our projection is that the numbers below will be what we are at in 2...
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    new quail babies coming

    Congratulations. Im sure youll have a blast.
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    Where should order Coturnix quail? (North FL)

    shipping live birds can become expensive real fast. and hard to be sure they will live. I know for a fact a lot of animals end up dead through shipping on planes. Gets REAL hot down in cargo. That being said im a james marie fan i guess you could say. Craigslist is a good spot to look if ya know...
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    Where should order Coturnix quail? (North FL)

    to hatch or live birds?
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    California Valley Quail - Humidity, feed & enclosure to hatch & raise

    yes you can overhandle birds. When people handle them they get stressed and as young and fragile as they are this can lead to death. That doesnt mean this is what has happened. it could just be they are too weak overall and just wont make it. This can happen.
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