➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

Wake up.

 

[BullChick]

I couldn’t stand the dirty brooder, so it’s changed. I still cannot get plastic leg bands on.
If I can get my five -week -old chicks outside, I will be able to move the quail into a bigger brooder tomorrow. The real goal is to attempt to sex them or at least pick which are prettier, and I want to breed. Whichever is more doable. The keepers can go in the big tote.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I couldn’t stand the dirty brooder, so it’s changed. I still cannot get plastic leg bands on.
If I can get my five -week -old chicks outside, I will be able to move the quail into a bigger brooder tomorrow. The real goal is to attempt to sex them or at least pick which are prettier, and I want to breed. Whichever is more doable. The keepers can go in the big tote.

You goofball, we enjoy your conversation!

I wouldn't stress about not getting bands on them yet, it's a pain checking to make sure none of them have slipped on even my adult birds and then factor in having to take them off before they outgrow them and its become more work than it's worth for me.

 

[Kiki]

Do I! Actually, well, I don't right now, I only have my rabbit snail colony and a mini-reef with some hermit crabs and coral. But at my peak I ran something like 72 tanks and was shipping weekly.

Fish suck. The ethics of getting a hold of good stock sucks, the mortality rate on the way to you sucks, the mortality rate when you have them sucks, the ability to breed most species sucks. I love them to pieces but being involved heavily in them saps your energy after a while. I have kept everything from mudskippers to pipefish to designer coral but I like my bombproof snails and zoanthids for right now. I move too often for anything else.

Ha, livestock supply places are the only place to get levimasole for fishes! It's funny how that works sometimes. You gotta shop around like a fiend when you need a specific med.

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[CoturnixComplex]

Oh my goodness, I am beyond quail-pacity. My six main cages were specifically chosen for their ease of maintenance but right now I also have the 4'x3'x3' soft crate popped out for growout/sale and another half dozen temporary totes set up for various sale males being held for people and isolation birds. Cleaning cages and watering is so much work right now. I need to get my automatic system set up.

My older batch is starting to be sexable. I am excited to unload a ton of them, although it's going to be a harrowing ~3 weeks growing out my hordes of extra males.

 

[Crazydoglady99]

Oh Coturnix I find having to keep them separated exhausting too. Much easier when they can all just be together!

My 2 original hens are all hanging with the other possy in the big outdoor pen. My littles also go outside each day - I have an xxxl steel dog crate that I covered in aviary mesh (I did initially do soft netting, but lost a few from previous gang )

It's the end of summer here in aus I HATE winter. Now I'm going to have to decide if I keep them all under extra light over winter, and then replenish stock in the spring? Oh I don't know, it's taken so long just to get to this point, and we still only have 2 bloodlines mingling together

 

[BullChick]

Oh Coturnix I find having to keep them separated exhausting too. Much easier when they can all just be together!

My 2 original hens are all hanging with the other possy in the big outdoor pen. My littles also go outside each day - I have an xxxl steel dog crate that I covered in aviary mesh (I did initially do soft netting, but lost a few from previous gang )

It's the end of summer here in aus I HATE winter. Now I'm going to have to decide if I keep them all under extra light over winter, and then replenish stock in the spring? Oh I don't know, it's taken so long just to get to this point, and we still only have 2 bloodlines mingling together

Why the special treatment?

 

[Crazydoglady99]

I don't know what you mean?

 

[BullChick]

Why do you need extra light over winter?

 

[Crazydoglady99]

To keep them laying.

Edit - and breeding and all that.