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Thanks! Their heads are fairly brown but the rest is all yellow on both of them, if they're going to go silver is that a color they should already have or something that happens as they mature?

The heat lamp is running about 100ish, and they’re spread out around the brooder. :) This is a video from today! IDK why it insists on flipping my images upside down on mobile. :barnie

I may have specifically ordered it cos I knew I’d need it for this project :p

Behold! Letting it get up to temp now. If it’s too hot I’ll lift the light some, I have some things I can clamp or hook it to. Just in time as my first two quail hatched!

...oh. Should I make a smaller one? Shoot. How much smaller? edit: I got it, I remembered we have a smaller bin we use for Christmas decorations. I’ll just dump those into a bag and make a HWC lid for it real quick and move the lamp over.

Hmm, ok, so if I widen the viewing window thing I can theoretically just sit it on top? That works for me. Thanks! Edited to ask: Since it’s an opaque bin (I just used one we already had) should I run lights in the lid or on the sides? Otherwise, it’s SUPER dark in there...

I’ve got a thermometer and it’s reading 96, which is fine for babies right?

Actually, would this work? Or would the little dummies have enough clearance to fly up and get out?

Cool. I’m shoving mine under my desk, and I think I can run a cable or rope or a shoelace or something through the supports of the desk and hang the lamp from that. Then yeah, I guess I’ll just use more HWC. IKEA desk for the save!

I don’t have any chain - wouldn’t it hang too low at that point? It’s already super close to the bedding. Can just do without the lid or will they all escape? haha, I had those dinky LED lights in there because without them it’s super dark, and taking the lid on and off knocked them loose and...

This is the type of lamp I am using btw.

I thought I had this figured out, but I was very wrong! I put the brooder together today, and I was under the impression quail need a lid on the brooder. I took a large Rubbermaid bin I had, cut a viewing/vent window and covered it in hardware cloth. Next (and I thought I was being clever!) I...