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Quote: And I AM dangerous, lol...I choose my screen name shortly after bludgeoning a possum to death that managed to sneak into my coop and kill my favorite roo. I think I even freaked my husband out with that episode

Quote: LOL...I had no problems the first time I raised them...I even had a surprise bobwhite that was mixed in with the batch that I didn't know about and it survived till adulthood (which I guess its pretty good odds, considering how they can be). But I was shocked that I lost so many with...

Quote: I wondered if that could have been the problem...but I really don't think they ate much at all, it was only in there for about an hour until I remembered and pulled it out and changed to gamebird. I really think it was the bedding/chicks getting wet. They were even acting cold (trying...

I thought of that afterward. I definitely will be keeping my itty bitty quail on papertowel for the first few days from now on. I never even thought of that being a problem before hand. I don't know. It would either have been that or getting wet from the damp bedding. Either way, it was a...

Well it looks like they are all doing fine now...So as far as I can tell, the pine pellets were getting wet and expanding and then wicking the moisture out into the rest of the bedding, making it all damp. So I think they got too damp/cold...I feel so bad for not figuring that out sooner. I'm...

There is no lid on the brooder...I think some of the water wicked out onto the bedding. I don't know how to keep water in there in a small dish that they can't drown in that won't wick up moisture. I'm not sure if that's the problem or not. I am down to 8 from 15 and 2 are still wobbly. I took...

I hatched 15 quail on Sunday night and today they've started dropping like flies. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. This is the second time I've raised newly hatched coturnix. I never lost any the first time around. I lost 2 last night and 5 more this afternoon. They start shivering and...