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Last month I hatched 13 button quail in my classroom. This month we're hatching out chickens (they started hatching today). I teach Kindergarten - 8th grade. They love it! I'd like to know the answer to this question also.

This may be a really dumb question...but, How do you know they are shrink wrapped? Do you remove some of the shell so you can tell? I have a group hatching today and I'm a bit worried about the bator being too dry inside. I've sprayed a bit of water on the walls to up the humidity.

This morning I had my first chicken egg hatch. It was about 6am All day the other eggs have started to show signs of piping (little broken out areas). How long should it take from the time a chick pips to when it gets out of the egg? Is there a point where it's been too long? I hate this worried...

Quote: Yes, the 10 buttons I have drain them quickly. I ended up putting a second one in (just glued the bases back to back on the lid). It looks like I'll have to refill it ever couple of days (they are still chicks tho...).

Quote: I've tried a few things for delivering water to them over the last 10 days. The shavings in the water dish drove me crazy. I tried the rabbit type water bottle but they didn't really go for it. Yesterday I got a watering tube for a bird cage (see image below). I hot glued the base...

I'm a total noob....and I just hatched my first batch of Button Quail, so my solution may not work because your eggs are likely much larger... I took twisted/crunched up paper towels and put them in a shoebox lid. I then nestled the eggs into the little pockets that were formed. Some pockets...

What's a wind egg?

Mine are 10 days now. I kept them on paper towels for the first 3 days. Then a thick bedding of pine shavings. They are doing great. They do eat some of the shavings some time. Not sure if that's normal or not.

Quote: That is a great idea!

I'm in Florida just outside of Tampa. It appears that there's really only one feed store locally that carries it...so I guess that's why they can get 20.00 for it (?). I haven't met anyone else local who raises quail, but perhaps now is the time to start looking. Splitting a bag sounds like a...

I'm looking for a source of Startena Feed that is smaller than the 50 lb bag. I don't mind spending the twenty bucks to get the bag locally, but I only have 10 button quail and it seems like a huge waste to let all that feed go bad. Has anyone found a source online for smaller quantities of this...

Wow. Well this should be very interesting then. How long should I wait before clipping? I read that they should be able to fly at 10 days.

My first set of Button Quail are coming up on a week old tomorrow. I can see that most of their wings have already developed and a few are trying pretty hard to fly. I've kept lovebirds and cockatiels for some time now and I'm familiar with clipping their wings. I'm wondering if the procedure is...

Thanks for the info. I'll try to see if it will drip. It would be too ironic if buying the cheaper bottle would have worked better.

I'm not sure what type of quail you have but I have 1 week old button quail. Unfortunately they don't seem to peck hard enough for the hamster water bottle to work. I just got one and found that they do like to peck it (it's shiny) but nothing happens. I'm not sure if that will be true of...

I guess what I don't understand is what you do if you end up with too many males. For example if you hatch 4 eggs and end up with 3 males and 1 female. Obviously you put the M/F pair together but you end up with 2 males. What do you do with those males? From what I've read they will not be okay...

Is there anyone out there who can give me some information about this? I found this bit of information in an online article: "Males can become aggressive if paired with single hens so it is best to pair them in a one male to two female ratio." So are trios the best way to go? If they need to...

I'm a total noob at the quail thing...but I'm a good googler (is that a word?). My searches turned up 2-5 year life span for a Bobwhite quail. I'm sure someone who knows more will chime in here. 2-5 years seems like a pretty big span.

wow...I can't imagine that. I have my hands full with the 10 chicks I have now. What type of Quail?

I read somewhere that they can eat mashed up hard-boiled egg. So I put a little dish of that in too. They went crazy for it. They will even peck it off my finger tips when i put my hand in.