➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Maiahr]

How long ago did it hatch?

2 days ago. I assisted. What and how do I feed him?

 

[Kiki]

2 days ago. I assisted. What and how do I feed him?

You can't really force feed it.

 

[mixedUPturk]

What are the tan things called? Lemons?
And what is this one?
I think I need these kind next after tuxedos unless I get some tux in my current batch.
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I need ever color quail now.

The closest guess was german pastel but i didnt ever get a for sure name on the color.

The second is pearl fee.

I have several pearl hens but didnt get a pearl male.

You are so cute when you are being modest!

Interesting. Growth rate will be affected by food, agree. I try to keep the feeders full, but the little turkeys are knocking it over to feed the chickens. Put half a brick on it. Mostly worked. One coop has a whole brick now. Talented, aren't they?

Combine the small eggs with the 6 ounces carcass weights, I've got small jumbos. Answers several questions. Eyeballing the weights again, I'm closer to a 13+ gram average compared to a 11 gram from the Lucky line starters. A bit behind yours, though.

Really like your quail tractor. I could run them in the garden... How often do they rocket out?

thanks!

I struggle with the same things how they like to throw all their feed to the chickens. Living vicariously watching them free range right?

Agreed ur jumbos are small to me. I wouldve been mad at 6 oz carcasses to my jumbos when i actually had them but these are weights thrown by a color flock.

They really dont rocket out of it i thought they would too so i made the lil door but they havent given me any trouble and i pull the whole top off nearly every day the way it is in that pic. Appareny compared to everyone elses theyre big fat hogs that dont wanna flush as often as smaller quail though. I seldom have flushers anymore. The most of em are 14 wks old. The 10 g egg was The smallest egg i could find in my tray of 50.

 

[Maiahr]

You can't really force feed it.

I have to... It is not eating.. what if I give it row egg yolk with a syringe?

 

[mixedUPturk]

If only we lived on a farm instead of a suburban plot... tge quark are nice though because I am realizing we'r could keep A LOT in a relatively small space. The chickens and turkeys take up a lot of space, and the ducks... well they have a 1500 gallon pond. 4 8' long cages could be 100 quail. I have 1 cage and hole to build another very soon, so we are headed in the right direction. It just stinks that winter forces us to move the quail into the shed or garage in a few months. I will not have room indoors for 4 cages.

I dont live on a farm either doesnt stop me from farming my livestock. Doesnt have to be a huge area that eats thousands of lbs of food. Just has to be managed appropriately to be considered a farm and i think u cut the cake.

 

[Kiki]

I have to... It is not eating.. what if I give it row egg yolk with a syringe?

You will probably kill it by forcing food.

 

[CindyinSD]

That’s good!! I think I’d still be paranoid about raw meat germs getting everywhere though.

Everything inside the skin is sterile until you expose it, excepting the contents of the digestive system. Meat is a good substrate for microbes, though. It’s important to keep everything very clean so that nothing contaminates the carcass... not because the carcass is unclean of itself.

 

[CindyinSD]

Anybody heard of some health trend where people eat 2 raw quail eggs every day for 60 days? A lady who purchased 3 dozen quail eggs from us the other day is doing this. She said it's great for all sorts of things for your health. I will gladly sell her eggs, but I am not so sure I will be taking part in this "health" trend.

My DH would make me add a caution label for folks who do that. “All eggs must be thoroughly cooked. If you don’t cook your eggs, then it’s on you.” (But probably more polite and lawyerly.) But then he would freak if I were even to sell them at all. (Retired-But-not-recovering insurance claims adjuster)

 

[Maiahr]

You will probably kill it by forcing food.

Really? OK, so what about vitamin water? Is there nowhere to read about newly hatched baby quails not eating?

 

[Kiki]

Really? OK, so what about vitamin water? Is there nowhere to read about newly hatched baby quails not eating?

I can tell you that nine times out of ten if you have to help a quail out of the egg it wasn't meant to be and will not likely survive.

You can try to drop drops of water on its beak to see if it will swallow on its own.
There is nothing you can do to make it want to eat on it's own.