➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[R2elk]

I'm so worried that he's going to kill my girls or they're going to kill him.

Put him in a cage right next to and touching their cage for at least a couple of days before you try to stick him in with them.

 

[Kiki]

Put him in a cage right next to and touching their cage for at least a couple of days before you try to stick him in with them.

I'll try this this afternoon.
My problem is his current dog cage isn't dog proof.
I will have to rig it up on a chair or table to get it to butt up against the girls cage and it won't be dog proof.

I can pull it off for a few hours though so a few hours before I put him in might be better than none.

 

[R2elk]

I'll try this this afternoon.
My problem is his current dog cage isn't dog proof.
I will have to rig it up on a chair or table to get it to butt up against the girls cage and it won't be dog proof.

I can pull it off for a few hours though so a few hours before I put him in might be better than none.

In the future, you may want to design and build a cage that you can directly attach to your other cages so you can use it for an introduction cage.

I built a cage with 3 sides and a top that I screw onto a wall in my guinea coop. When I need to introduce a new member to flock, I install the cage and then remove the cage once the introduction is completed. Obviously you won't need a cage as big as mine for quail. The see but no touch method really can help when introducing new flock members of any species of poultry.

 

[Kiki]

In the future, you may want to design and build a cage that you can directly attach to your other cages so you can use it for an introduction cage.

I built a cage with 3 sides and a top that I screw onto a wall in my guinea coop. When I need to introduce a new member to flock, I install the cage and then remove the cage once the introduction is completed. Obviously you won't need a cage as big as mine for quail. The see but no touch method really can help when introducing new flock members of any species of poultry.

I really want to avoid this integration crap.
I don't like it one bit.

 

[Kiki]

What this one? Bird A

 

[Kiki]

? Bird B

 

[Kiki]

Last light one...? Bird C

 

[Pennys Mama]

In the future, you may want to design and build a cage that you can directly attach to your other cages so you can use it for an introduction cage.

I built a cage with 3 sides and a top that I screw onto a wall in my guinea coop. When I need to introduce a new member to flock, I install the cage and then remove the cage once the introduction is completed. Obviously you won't need a cage as big as mine for quail. The see but no touch method really can help when introducing new flock members of any species of poultry.

My pens that I use for isolation are inside my chicken house, maybe that is why my guineas don't harrass the newbies to death.

 

[Kiki]

@muddy75 and anybody else that keeps an eye on the Facebook auctions.
Please let me know when the feather sexable assortment is up.

 

[Bird nut 2000]

I bought a farm innovator 4250 for $90 on a random sale Amazon was having, it's usually $130. That was the lowest I was going for an incubator because any lower, your results won't be good. Yeah, there are some people that have had luck with the cheaper ones, but those incubators don't last as long so you're just going to spend more money in the long run. You'll spend more on hatching eggs and replacement parts, which will add up to the cost of a good incubator.

Might as well just start off with a good one.

I make my own incubators and they work fine for me