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  1. Country11525

    Need help bad with incubating eggs

    This is it before I added my quail
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    Need help bad with incubating eggs

  3. Country11525

    Need help bad with incubating eggs

    As soon as these chicks hatch I will post some pics. The eggs look good under my home made candler. Plus I will also post some pics of my incubator that I built out of stuff from I found in the dumpsters (you won't believe the stuff I got out dumpsters). He'll my hole quail coop is built from...
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    Need help bad with incubating eggs

    Yeah a buddy of mine is going to come over and feed my quail and chickens chickens and look in on the incubator but I was worried that the eggs got to cold. Wills see if the hatch is good or not. I did replace the light bulb with a appliance light bulb to see if it will handle the cycling of on...
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    Need help bad with incubating eggs

    Last night my light bulb went out and the temp dropped down to 83 deg. For about 2 hours. I did candle my eggs that day and had 18 out of 20 showing growth. I now concerned that with the temp drop I killed the young chicks. Should I contunie with the incubation or dump this eggs and start over...
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    30% protein feed?

    I have read about the different levels of protein that people feed there birds. But I can only get 30% protein level feed is this going to cause problems feeding my adult quail? If it's is what can I do to lower the protein, maybe mix in some lower level protein.
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    Quail stressed out?

    He had them in a small pen on the ground, mine are about 3feet above ground. I would say the temp was about the same his where located outside as well. it's been cool here in Tampa all week, low 70's so I don't think it's heat.
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    Quail stressed out?

    I will put another sand box in there for sure. Some of the quail don't seem bothered by me but others go running into there hide holes in the hay when I get to close to the pen. I will pick up some meal worms tommorw as we'll. also I sprout barley grain and feed that to them and my chickens...
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    Quail stressed out?

    Oh yeah no feather lost or pecking other than when the roo is in the sand box and a hen try's to get in he makes a warning call and if the hen still goes in he gives a small peck to chase the hens out of his sand box
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    Quail stressed out?

    Here in Tampa Florida right now it's only 72 degrees or so. It's i just read on the forum that panting and thoarth fulletering is a sign something is wrong. Just checked on them they are all in piles of hay nesting the male is in his sand box making a mess, but when I walk up to them the start...
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    Quail stressed out?

    Also forgot to say that there bedding is pine flakes and I use play sand in the dirt box. They have plenty of food and water which they eat and drink fine, I feed them 30% game bird feed. I know people say not to use 30 but it's all I could get. Some of the only do it for a few min. Then stop...
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    Quail stressed out?

    I have One roo five hens coturnix quail in a 100 sq ft enclosure, wood bottom tin roof with a nest box and piles of hay for hiding and a sand box which they use all day long but all my quail having been panting and thoart fulletering for two days. It's been in the 70's here in Florida so I know...
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    Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

    Please don't take it wrong but this is for quail not chickens and I mean no offensive to any body but I read so many post about chickens in this thread just to get some basic info about quail it was very hard to get the info I was looking for. So please if it is regards to your chickens put it...
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    Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

    I just got done going though all 149 pages of this tread and I am amazed that everybody brings up there chicken posts. This is not a thread for your dam chickens it's for quail. I understand that most of us also own chickens including me , but if I want to learn about silkies or any other...
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    Hekp Me Understand

    Thank you all for responding to my post, sorry its so late to say but I am currently out of the country. So as I thought I will make a grow out pen for my birds but the one thing I still dont get is if I put all my new hatches in the grow out pen and keep them there untill cull time won't I...
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    Hekp Me Understand

    Ok, I have my coop built its about 60 to 70 square foot, will be using Cortunix quail for meat and eggs. Ihave my incubator with auto turner built and ready to go. So my queation s I will be starting with 6 hens and one male. After I go hatch my my first set of eggs and feather out the chicks...
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    New incubator humidity problems

    This is reason why I don't join forums, unless you have been around for awhile no one Will responded. So good luck to you all in your fowl plans. But I will say you do have a info thts goods. So good luck to you and good bye
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    New incubator humidity problems

    I have had up and testing running for almost 48 hours now the temp has held right 99 to 100 the whole time been checking the high and low that the digital therm I have in there. So if I put more vent holes in will it mess up my temps. And where should I put the vents holes. The way I built...
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    New incubator humidity problems

    Right now I have zero water in there. With two analog humidity readers and one digital and all three still reading around 53 to 55% humidity. Should I put more vent holes in it and if I do will that mess my thermostat setting up
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    New incubator humidity problems

    I just finished the build using oak panel board with1 inch thick stryro foam walls and covered the styro foam with more oak panel boards. I am using a water heater thermostat and it stays right at 100 but my humidity level is staying at 53% I don't have any water in there and 3 vent hole in the...
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