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You will need either more females or to cull some of your males. 1 to 1 ratio is not good. Often males will settle down with the crowing when they have their harem of gals set up and can't see any other males. My males rarely crow now.

Try sprinkling some chick starter on floor of brooder as well as in their dish. You also might try adding a tiny dish, the size of small food jar lid, of yolk soup. Hard boiled egg yolk dissolved in warm water with pinch of sugar, few drops of apple cider vinegar a pinch of brewers yeast and...

Since you had them upside down for a time they might not be positioned correctly. I would tend to help them in this senerio because they could be completely healthy strong chicks and only having issues due to incubation user error. I understand completely the hands off hatching school of...

Hi My last hatch took twenty days. I have heard that jumbos can take a day or two longer than normal sized birds. In my case, I think it was my new incubator. I've only used it for one hatch. Has factory setting for heat but could be low. I tend to be a helper when it comes to hatches. After an...

Hi Kasey, mine are outside also. I have them in a 4x8 wired wrapped dog run on sand/sweet PDZ. From what I have always heard Coturnix Quail only lay when they get 14 hours of light. It makes survival sense, in the wild it would be the best time for them to raise a brood of chicks. Warmer, more...

I have my first group of Scofield from camp julsby(sp) in Crestline. I think they are very friendly, docile and sweet. I had a batch of texas a&ms once that were a nightmare. Fighting constantly, and even in the brooder pecking each other bloody. If one started bleeding they were relentless. It...

Hi kasey08 I still have a light out on my quail pen. It's on a timer and even though the days are longer, mine won't lay unless they get 14 hours of light min. Are yours on any type of light? Sounds like they have good temperaments, calm and friendly.