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    Homemade Brooder Capacity - how many is 'crowded'?

    This is my first button quail brood, so I'm all about the newbie questions! Thanks for bearing with me. If you only know the following answer for chickens, I can try to judge from your knowledge there on what is right. I'd like any input at this point. There are so many pictures on the net of...
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    Button Quail Babies picking on toes

    Hi all, My 13 chicks are 4 days old. I know its supposed to be common for them to experiment with pecking things, especially their worm-resembling toes. But they are all picking on just one handicapped chick (his toes don't move)and now its bleeding. I can't seem to get the bleeding to stop...
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    Button Quail Hatching Help - Thanks everyone!

    Hey all, I had asked a while back about 'turning the quail eggs'; being a newbie with my first gang of eggs. Well, despite my homemade styrofoam cooler incubator and the occasional dangerous temperature fluctuations, I'm now the proud 'mom' of 10 button quail babies. I had put 25 eggs in, so...
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    Newbie/Homespun Questions :)

    Hi All, I'm very new to the poultry rearing field... I've only ever bred parrots before - and then the hen did most of the work. But as a home project (just my equally clueless father and I) are attempting to hatch buttons. We made an incubator out of a cooler that we saw on cyberquail.com...
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