➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Pandaisy]

My 10 Buttons are a week old today. I've tried to find a very small feeder online and in the store and I failed. They are making a mess with the lids I am currently using and it is super annoying.

 

[RUNuts]

My 10 Buttons are a week old today. I've tried to find a very small feeder online and in the store and I failed. They are making a mess with the lids I am currently using and it is super annoying.

look for chick feeders. We got (scammed) a baby chicken feeder and waterer that is good for 2 weeks for chickens. Working great for quail babies. Mad when we got it. And we got our money's worth out of it.

It's still in with the 8 week olds. Time to transition them to a big bird feeder. I use the no waste design and cut holes in the side of a 1 quart cottage cheese tub. Or sour creme. Working good and toss them once filthy.

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

look for chick feeders. We got (scammed) a baby chicken feeder and waterer that is good for 2 weeks for chickens. Working great for quail babies. Mad when we got it. And we got our money's worth out of it.

It's still in with the 8 week olds. Time to transition them to a big bird feeder. I use the no waste design and cut holes in the side of a 1 quart cottage cheese tub. Or sour creme. Working good and toss them once filthy.

The cutting holes in a plastic tub works great! Can't go wrong with the price either.

 

[Pandaisy]

look for chick feeders. We got (scammed) a baby chicken feeder and waterer that is good for 2 weeks for chickens. Working great for quail babies. Mad when we got it. And we got our money's worth out of it.

It's still in with the 8 week olds. Time to transition them to a big bird feeder. I use the no waste design and cut holes in the side of a 1 quart cottage cheese tub. Or sour creme. Working good and toss them once filthy.

Great idea! I am going to try this where their heads fit in but not their butts!

 

[vall]

My first hatch of 30 chicks are about ready to go outside. They are 3 weeks +- a few days and they are starting to stink. At least it is warm enough I can open the windows and air out that room pretty well.

I candled the easter hatch - 10 clears or early quitters. There might be a few more that were too dark to tell.

This one is a double yolker - I know it's unlikely to hatch but it's still alive.

 

[FloorCandy]

Great idea! I am going to try this where their heads fit in but not their butts!

I use the supposedly disposable plastic containers from ziploc, as well as soup containers from Chinese food (it hurts me to throw things out lol) I cut holes in the sides, and I have several different sizes for different ages. Occasionally I find one standing in the bowl cheeping like a lunatic, I swear they can dislocate and reconfigure their shoulders to get in there lol, chicks are so squishy.

 

[RUNuts]

I use the supposedly disposable plastic containers from ziploc, as well as soup containers from Chinese food (it hurts me to throw things out lol) I cut holes in the sides, and I have several different sizes for different ages. Occasionally I find one standing in the bowl cheeping like a lunatic, I swear they can dislocate and reconfigure their shoulders to get in there lol, chicks are so squishy.

Careful. I used a pint yogurt container that they couldn't get into. Well, they played clown car and packed that thing full. Lost several because I didn't have enough air holes in it. I don't use these for chicks because the heads are the same size as the butts, hence the lids, canned food flats and the store bought little miniature feeder.

The tall skinny ones tip over and make a mess. That is why I like the quart sized containers.

Suicidal little guys.

 

[FloorCandy]

Careful. I used a pint yogurt container that they couldn't get into. Well, they played clown car and packed that thing full. Lost several because I didn't have enough air holes in it. I don't use these for chicks because the heads are the same size as the butts, hence the lids, canned food flats and the store bought little miniature feeder.

The tall skinny ones tip over and make a mess. That is why I like the quart sized containers.

Suicidal little guys.

If you make one with small holes, and then make a different one with larger holes for as they grow, they should be fine, I’ve never had more than 1 inside before. Usually it’s one who’s really small. But I use lids as bowls for 2-3 days, then they get ziploc bowl with holes size small, next up is Chinese food container, holes size medium, last is ziploc holes size large. I use containers that are about 4 inches wide and 3-4 inches tall, however many quarts or pints that is, not sure. As they get bigger, I have a small Chinese food container that usually comes with sweet and sour sauce in it, I fill it with sand and put it on top of the feed container so they don’t knock it over.

 

[Nabiki]

They get inside...

 

[sealer39]

They get inside...
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Quail chick Miso soup! Yum!

Edit: that container looks like the tubs of miso soup my sister in law would bring home.