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I I do the same. I use a food processor and grind the starter for the cots for the first week. After that they can manage the crumbles.

If you hatch your own, and interact with the cots, you will wind up with friendly quail. They tame very easily, especially once they figure out that you are the one that brings the food!

My quail don't seem to mind. I keep my laying pens on the ground and move them daily chicken tractor style so they can pick at the fresh grass through the wire. I just mow around them, making sure the discharge is away from the pens. I also put them in grower pens outside at 2 weeks of age, so...

They love hatching in the middle of the night ...and announcing their arrival loudly!!

Ditto on the smoking recipe! I've got to process Roos soon - nearly time to bring the ladies off of vacation and into the breeding cages!

I had a smart male that just waited until I fed everyone dinner and the ladies lined up to eat. He just went straight down the line while they were distracted. I don't think I ever saw him spend any effort chasing them...

I pickle mine and can them. They go great on salads!!

You are not crazy!!! They are overwhelmingly cute!

I love how they think that no one can see them like that!!!! Lol!!

They love to bury themselves too. Give them a little hay and watch them hide in it so that just their little heads are sticking out! My ones overwintering outdoors have little holes in the snow leading to their houses - you can barely see their wooden hides under the snow, and the enclosure...

Give him a few more weeks - it won't take long for him to mature! They grow up in a blink of an eye, and then you will be wondering when they will stop crowing. (Some of mine go all night long) When he hits about 8 weeks he will be a lot easier to vent sex if you haven't heard him crow yet and...

My roos don't start crowing until they are around 6 to 8 weeks old. At three weeks they aren't yet sexually mature and are only about half grown. When they get close to their adult size is when they usually start, although some of my less dominant roos will not crow if there is another male...

Yes! I totally wouldn't write off that hatch just yet!

Do you have any idea how long the light was out for? I have had batches survive multiple power outages over the course of several days, the longest period being a couple of hours, but long power outages can be deadly. I would candle, run the incubator as normal and then candle again before...

They start laying when they are a little over 2 months old, so unless you got them as chicks, it us unlikely they would be too young. If you did get them as chicks, they should be starting up soon!! None of mine overwintering in the big outdoor aviary are laying at the moment - there is still...

LOL! Those small USPS cube shaped flat rate express mail boxes work well for little teeny quail eggs. Most places who have shipped to me use a combination of bubble wrap around each egg, egg cartons or foam rubber, packing peanuts or a ton more bubble wrap around that, and double box using a...

I'd love some, and it will be a good infusion of new blood into my stock. I have incubator #1 held open for three sets of eggs that are due in this coming week, and have incubator #2 (my quail hatching workhorse) shut down briefly for maintenance and upgrades. Will you still have some that...

Vent sexing is the easiest way, especially when the birds are 8 weeks old and up. Males will have a small bump just inside the cloaca, and will produce a white foam when you invert the vent during the breeding season. Hens appear more folded, lack the bump, and never produce foam.

I have found that a dozen can go for about 3 weeks in a large storage tub brooder. 2 dozen can only make it 2 weeks, and 3 dozen, just a week. I don't have a ton of space, so I use a single tub brooder. I do runs of 24, and keep them in the tub for two weeks while the next run incubates. Then I...

I am not bothered by it either - it is what I visualize when people say that coturnix sing. If you can hear them singing like that from a distance, it's definitely from the hens.