Well I was a tad slow to put the lid on and you guessed it, last night I kept hearing peeping from downstairs (distressed peeping) so I venture downstairs to find a baby button scurrying around the living room not far from the tub... it had flown out... thankfully, it didn't disappear under the...
Thanks for that - they are jumpy and zippy little things. I'll have to change the brooder to a box then. The plastic tub that I have has high walls and at the moment the bulb is hanging just under the top rim of it and I worry that raising the bulb any higher to put a lid on the tub would...
I've just hatched 10 button quail and they are in a brooder with a heating lamp. The brooder is just a simple tub but it has no lid on it. They are about 4 days old now and I'm wondering when I should start to think about putting a lid on the tub (or some sort of netting) to stop them from...