I didn’t wire the outside thinking sitting on pavers would be enough. So there’s one side I couldn’t hardware cloth and that’s the side it used. I was just about to use my portable security cam and get a WiFi extender but it already cleared out all my quail. So this weekend I’m going to work on...
Hello, so my whole coop of quail have been killed. I’ve been trying to find out what is killing them. My first guess was rats. My cage sits on top of pavers but there’s ways of getting between the bottom wood. Throughout the cage there are quail missing their head and one looks like it was tried...
Im going to try and get a close count of the female/male ratio for the ones I can feather sex. If they aren’t fighting at 6 weeks ill only do a couple and wait it out and compare the weights
Thanks y’all, my friend says he will help me process them and will take 6-8 processed ones. So I’ll do half at 6 weeks and see how things go from there. They are in a 8x10 pen it’s about 45 of them in there now
I’ve read that it takes around 2.5-3.3 pounds of feed to get a quail to slaughter size. I pay .36 cents a pound for feed. I have way to many males even for my fairly large enclosure and nobody wants my males. I think I have atleast 17-20 males that need to go. They are 4 weeks so the ones that...
Thanks guys that’s one of the colors I was hoping to get and he’s my only one. All these males I have smh. Everyone that’s interested doesn’t want males
I haven’t found a comprehensive site with all the new colors that’s out now. One day I may make one. Untill then I would really like to see a thread with photos and most/all the different quail colors. After my german,gold,feather sexed eggs hatched I have all kinds of colors and trying to...
I wondered what that last chic was, your making it hard on which ones I’m going to keep😭.. I think it might come down to how many males I have. It’s about 50ish chicks. I originally planned on keeping 15-20. I may push it to 30 but then I would have to get rid of some of my older wild type...
Thanks for advice, yes I assumed that as well, I’ve been taking them out as I see them dry, that first hatch I could’ve taken more out when I first seen them. Lesson learned. Now the hard part of deciding what to keep. I may have to wait untill they start feathering out
24hrs and the ones that died had to be less then that. The first day of hatching it was around 30 or so chicks. And I think some were trampled, they were in the middle of incubator where the chicks were piling. I’m buying a new thermometer today I don’t think this one was accurate. Humidity was...
Ok so I set around 150idh eggs, I received extras so my rails was maxed out. I have a janoel 48 incubator and I’ve had around 8 chicks who hatched but I found dead in the incubator. I thought the piling I’ve witnessed the first day caused the first deaths but I’ve taken all those chicks out and...
My quail from Myshire are hatching they sent me extras and couldn’t bear not to try incubating them so it’s a little cramped in the incubator read afterwards I shouldn’t have opened it but here’s a pic