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Yet Another 'Quail Chicks Dropping Like Flies' Thread
Final wrap-up. So thanks to the changes that people suggested we make, by six weeks (a month after the initial post), we only lost two more. Thanks to everyone for that. Unfortunately, after the six weeks were up, we moved them to our 12 x 32 hoophouse for flight conditioning. We gave them... -
Yet Another 'Quail Chicks Dropping Like Flies' Thread
OK, a week and a half later, and we haven't lost any more! Thanks mostly to Nurse_turtle! I think our problem was the newspaper, plain and simple. So, now we have three boxes on 1/4" hardware cloth, and two more on aspen shavings, all doing fine. The hardware cloth is raised about 1/2"... -
Yet Another 'Quail Chicks Dropping Like Flies' Thread
OK, so none dead this morning. We switched to aspen shavings (the company that made the pine shavings said either was OK, and we could buy the aspen in bigger bags.) I bought some 1/4" x 1/4" hardware cloth to use later, but for now we have about a 1/2" thick layer of shavings. Should we... -
Yet Another 'Quail Chicks Dropping Like Flies' Thread
The probiotic is sav-A-chick, and they've been on that pretty much from the beginning. They've never gone without food or water, before we ground up the DuMor stuff they kicked a lot of it out looking for smaller pieces, but they were still eating most of it. I have some 32% "Ultrakibble" I'll... -
Yet Another 'Quail Chicks Dropping Like Flies' Thread
I'm sorry to bother you all, but all the other 'quail chicks dying' threads seem to have answers that aren't working for us. We're losing about two or three of our 2 wk old bobwhite quail chicks a day, pretty consistently since we got them (100 from Purely Poultry a week and a half ago). Any...