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    Is coturnix laying season over? and some light questions.

    I've been getting 1-2 less eggs than normal for the past week or so, and havent gotten any over the last two days. I'm in the SF bay area, and we just dropped below 13 hours of daylight(6:38-7:36 today). Would it be a bad thing to hang lights after they've stopped laying I was planning on...
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    Help! CA quail chick went from Seemingly fine to listless and dying overnight?

    All 8 seemed fine when I turned on the heat lamp last night, but this morning one was extremely listless and Is deteriorating rapidly, it may already be dead as I type this. I thought it might be dehydration as the waterer did drain into the bedding last night, but it wouldn't take any, and by...
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    Birdnoob's quail adventures

    Since it's been awhile since I've posted anything, I thought I'd make a new thread with updates. I moved the quail to the stall about a week ago, though the outdoor portion has been really lagging behind. And last but not least, I've got new babies! And one of them has a top knot already.
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    My first eggs are incubating!!!

    I picked up 12 Jumbo coturnix eggs yesterday afternoon and put them in the incubator (brinsea mini II EX) this morning. The eggs have come up to temp and the incubator keeps them at 99.5 surprisingly consistently for it being small, as long as I set the incubator to 1.9-2 degrees higher. The...
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    Keeping california quail and coturnix in a barn stall+corral?

    I have a 12x12 barn stall with an attached 24x24 corral that I'd like to convert to quail keeping as inexpensively as possible by wrapping in chicken wire and bird netting. I want at least one breeding pair of california quail as pets and to sell chicks, though I would like a small group of...
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