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    Female coturnix call at midnight?

    I have two female coturnix recently started to make very loud call at night. I have all quails in the yard, straight females. The light went off around 9pm, and they would start their call around 10pm, and do it about once every 10 minutes all the way until dawn. It starts to get really...
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    Best way to peel hard boiled quail egg shell?

    Our family eat quail eggs in a few different ways, one of them being hard boil then peel and season the egg. However, I found it's quite time consuming to peel the egg shells. For about 100 eggs, it would take me and my wife 1 whole hour just to peel them. I am guessing there got to be some...
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    Mixing flock of different age group?

    CAWooduck is very nice to offer me some of his half a year adult hens for free! The thing is now I need to sort out their housing with what I already got. My current cage has 6 young hens that are 6 weeks old (they are offspring of these adults). The cage is 8 square feet (outdoor plus the...
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    How do you supply 14 hours light to ourdoor quails in winter time?

    I don't see anywhere mentioned this, but do you have a timer to turn the light on and off around dawn or dusk? I know electricity is cheap for a single bulb, but I still don't see it justifies to turn it on 14 hours straight, considering I only have a few quails. Also should I place the light...
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    What to do with a bullying hen?

    I have 7 coturnix hens at 5 weeks old, 4 golden and 3 brown. They had some pecking issues in a bigger flock before I bought them, since most have lost some feathers on back or neck, and the situation did not seem to improve one week after I got them. A couple of them got pecked so bad they start...
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    Laying capability after 1 year old?

    Someone is offering a few quail hens for free on local craigslist, though they are 1 year old. I am thinking about getting them, any suggestion about the laying capability of quail hens after 1 year old, for how long and how many per year will they still be able to lay? is it worth the feed or I...
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    A lot of poo for a single chick!

    I have my 3 day old lone survivor of my recent hatch in a 1 by 1.5 feet rubbermaid homemade brooder, and man she is already pooping everywhere, and the paper towl I put on the bottom gets dirty fast and needs to be changed almost daily, otherwise the children start to yell and laugh "oh she is...
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    Disappointing result, but good learning

    I just unplugged my bator after the first incubation trial. A big relief. I can honestly say I did the best I can during the past 19 days. Out of the 24 eggs I set, 1 hatched with help; 1 pipped but was closer to the bottom and I never saw it from the incubator window until a few minutes ago...
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    First chick, helped out, with only one eye open, drinking, not eating

    I now have my first chick that I helped out last night around 10pm. However, it only has one eye open. It already knows to go to drink water, but so far has not tried to eat even I repeatedly tapped on the floor with scattered food. Any suggestion how should I get him to eat? Would he eventually...
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    First egg pipped, but now I am concerned about the fan noise

    My first quail egg just pipped this morning (well not really a hole yet, just a small crack on the shell), and now I start to become really concerned about what the fan noise/vibration will do to the chicks trying to push its way out. I modded my still air hovabator with a fan mounted on the...
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    Fan noise and vibration a conern for hatching?

    My first egg just pipped today, and now I have a question regarding the fan noise/vibration for the chicks trying to push its way out. I modded my still air hovabator with a fan mounted on the top, blowing air upwards. It definitely helped to stabilize the temperature and humidity. I tried to...
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    For those who use wire floor cage with nest box...

    What bedding material do you put in the nest box? straw? wood shavings? How thick a layer of bedding do you use? Do you actually need to clean the nest box area of droppings once in a while? Replace all the bedding material? Or the birds are smart enough to not poo in that area? And do quails...
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    14th day... is when?

    I set my coturnix quail eggs last Monday afternoon, so by common widsom I am supposed to up the humidity and stop turning "the 14th day"... but when is that exactly? I just want to confirm is that the next Monday (07/06), or Sunday(07/05)?
  14. laputa

    Manual quick egg turner

    I have been reading this forum and learned a great deal from everybody, so I thought I should share some idea I come up recently. I bought an incubator last week and received some quail eggs this Monday, being without an egg turner and not wanting to take the hassle to open the incubator every...
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    How strong is a raccoon?

    I am converting an old rabbit hutch into a quail cage, Some of the hutch wall (plyboards) are no thicker than half an inch, and some of the screws connecting the legs and side panels are somewhat loose. The bottom welded wire mesh is also not tightened down yet and can be pulled out from top...
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    Question for adding a fan to stilled air incubator

    Hi, this is first time I post here. I am trying to mod my still air hovabator with a fan. This is also the first time I am going to hatch something. My question is should the fan blowing downwards or upwards (assuming enough space is given between the fan and the incubator ceiling)? I...
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