I read recently that quails can get bored if they aren't foraging, so I refurbished an old playground set to be a coop with a doggy cage attached to the side. Before the pictures I posted here it was empty with some rocks that act as ledges. For the most part they would just burrow in the ground...
Dang, I'll have to look for another brooder then. As for now this is the temperature readings. I moved the lamp more to the far left so on the left it's warmer and the far right is around 87 degrees.
I couldn't upload a video, so I made a gif of a recording from my quail pen. The lighter dirty cream quail is the focus. Does she have wry neck or an injury? I bought her from a craiglist ad about a month ago. I only have 1 male quail in the pen who does mount the girls. Maybe he mounted her too...
So I have a backup meat feed called naturewise meatbird crumble that I will feed them for now until I go buy more feed. It has a 22% protein, 1% lysine, 0.37% methionine, 2.5% fat. It's slightly low since my quails are adults.
So I attached photos of what I plan to buy, the guide you sent says...
So I have a main pen area for my 9 female quails and I raise them for eggs. I give them a layer hen feed for chickens, but the packaging says not to feed to males. Because of this, I put a smaller pen that gives my singular male pen view of the 9 females but he is separated by wire fencing and...