➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Pennys Mama]

My heat lamps hang from above and have to be kept at a certain distance since they're 250w. But I have used a regular bulb (not so easy to find anymore), it just had to be much closer for adequate heat. I've used the reptile ceramic heat bulbs as well. I just watch the temp on the brooder floor and raise/lower the heat source accordingly.

 

[Pennys Mama]

I was thinking of trying the ceramic bulb thing but worried it will get too hot. I read some about needing a special light fixture. You use a regular one though?

I use the same fixture with the metal surround & some have a metal cage to protect the bulb.

 

[CindyinSD]

I was thinking of trying the ceramic bulb thing but worried it will get too hot. I read some about needing a special light fixture. You use a regular one though?

I like the ceramic bulbs if I run out of brooder plates & makeshift brooder heating pads. The babies are quieter. I use them in a brooder lamp fixture with the big metal bell (like a stainless steel bowl) around the bulb. I take off the protective wires and lay the lamp flat on my hardware-cloth-added lid. I zip-tie the cord down to the wire so it can't be knocked off. I do this in addition to the brooder plate for 2-3 days, and only if it's cold in the garage.

That's what I do for chicken/duck/turkey/goose babies. I've never raised quail.

 

[RUNuts]

I was thinking of trying the ceramic bulb thing but worried it will get too hot. I read some about needing a special light fixture. You use a regular one though?

I started using a desk lamp and the heavy ceramic heater broke the socket support. I switched to a plastic reflector desk lamp and cooked the plastic reflector. Down 2 desk lamps.

Crazy Lady took the metal reflectors and bulbs, which were working fine, for the dogs when it got a little chilly. I need to go reclaim them.

SIL gifted me his old reptile dual lamp heater, one daylight and the other ceramic, when he upgraded to a heated rock thing. That is suspended from the wire lid on the brooder. Found out those things are $50 without bulbs. I can be bought, but I ain't cheap.

A 60 watt incandescent worked fine. Close enough to add heat and far enough away to not burn the chicks, stable enough not to start a fire and all of them get hot. Want to see my scars? Cold metal looks exactly the same as hot metal.

To check the ceramic bulb, hold your hand 2-6 INCHES away and wait for the warm radiating glow. This may take a minute. If you get in a hurry and grab it, I told you it was still hot.

 

[FortCluck]

Some of my air cells are drawn down,but they aren't supposed to hatch till the 23rd. This quail hatch has been a disaster to me

 

[BullChick]

I got impatient. A chick pipped early this morning, and I thought something was wrong (no, I didn’t. I wanted it OUT!!!). It bled a little, but nothing alarming. I will not try again. I will wait. I will wait. I will wait. I will eat, and will gain weight. I will wait. I will wait. I will wait...

 

[FortCluck]

@Kiki just bought these

https://www.ebay.com/itm/25-Scarlet...ispr=1&hash=item23ad0287da:g:vssAAOSw9MReQ1-W

 

[RUNuts]

I got impatient. A chick pipped early this morning, and I thought something was wrong (no, I didn’t. I wanted it OUT!!!). It bled a little, but nothing alarming. I will not try again. I will wait. I will wait. I will wait. I will eat, and will gain weight. I will wait. I will wait. I will wait...

no helping for 24 hours after pip. It's the rule.

Go take a walk. A long walk. Mow the yard, wash the car, do the dishes, all that other fun stuff. All will be fine when you get back.

 

[BullChick]

no helping for 24 hours after pip. It's the rule.

Go take a walk. A long walk. Mow the yard, wash the car, do the dishes, all that other fun stuff. All will be fine when you get back.

I know.
On a short pier?

I can’t see the grass, the water freezes as it comes out of the spigot.

 

[R2elk]

Mow the yard,

What??? You don't remember her killing rampage with the mower?