Recent content by lostquail
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Found Good Quail Egg Cartons!
Sorry to revive an old thread, but does anyone know where I can get the 12-egg quail egg cartons that snap shut? I got mine off of Eggcartons.com too but they're out of stock with "no ETA" of when they'll be back in. The Double R Country Store website had them but has taken them off their site... -
Where can I get a quail egg cutter at a reasonable price?
Anybody know where I can buy or order a quail egg cutter at a reasonable price? I'm talking about the kind seen in this video: I've got a ton of Bobwhite and Coturnix eggs I'd like to eat and use for cooking but breaking them open with a knife takes forever and it's hard not to get bits of... -
Need help w/quail waterer and feeder
Quote: sounds like this should do the trick although I'm not sure about soaking the heated waterer in the bleach solution since it's an electrical appliance and i don't know how well the heated base (or the metal plug) would take to being soaked in bleach/water over a length of time. would it... -
Need help w/quail waterer and feeder
Quote: I think i'll get one of these, that looks like it'll save a lot more feed than the open ones I'm using now. any ideas about cleaning the waterer that was used with the chickens? still unsure if it can be used or not/what i should use to clean it -
Need help w/quail waterer and feeder
i use a 3 gallon plastic waterer and a metal poultry feeding trough with my Bobwhites but the waterer recently broke and i'm thinking of switching my feeding method as well since so much of the feed goes to waste in the trough. firstly, the waterer i've got is a heated poultry waterer that looks... -
Quail eating the sand in their sandbox?
I put a "sandbox" of sorts in with my bobwhites for them to take dustbaths in but so far they only seem to be eating it. They'll scratch around a bit but for the most part they just gobble it up as if it were their food, although there's no food in it, just regular "all purpose" sand I got from... -
Bobwhite quail escaped, help please
Good news; after 3 days and 2 nights I finally got the loose quail back in the pen. He was gone all day today but finally showed up just as it got dark, appearing in the same spot by the door. After an hour or so of waiting he finally aligned himself in front of the open door to the empty pen... -
Bobwhite quail escaped, help please
I found him out there in the same place again this morning, just after sunrise...so far the only times I've seen him have been early morning (6:45am - 8:15am) or evening (4:30pm - 5:45pm); don't know where he hangs out the rest of the time. The rock I was using to prop the door open had rolled... -
Bobwhite quail escaped, help please
Some updates: I got up first thing this morning and heard him calling in the distance so I put my laptop outside near the door to the pen and had it play a bobwhite call on repeat. I think this worked because when I came back 20 minutes later he was there by the door again with the rest of the... -
Bobwhite quail escaped, help please
Quote: Unfortunately no, I don't. Would I be able to make one myself? Or would any local stores in the area carry something like that? I found a few available for order online but they wouldn't arrive for 4-5 days and I need it pretty quick. -
Bobwhite quail escaped, help please
I've been raising Bobwhite quail this year as a hobby and as "pets" with my husband and kids and and things have been going pretty smoothly until today when one of them escaped and disappeared. This is my first time raising quail so I'm not sure what to do in this situation; will it come back...