all who are hatching quail

[titika]

Thank you. New at quail. Any help how to clean poopie feet?

Gently rinse with water. If you try to pick off dried poo it will make them bleed. And possible damage their feet.

 

[keepmumsane]

Mine run through their water bowl..cleans them right off! ! Lol I saw baby oil on one thread for feet cleaning..
Mwahahaha sandy quail.
My babies loved wood shavings to play in, have graduated to sand purely because I had a bag from the river. (Supposedly for my garden tools ) often theres a pile o legs and feet and feathers rolling in there. And no birds to be seen.

 

[onlygirloutof6]

I have never raised quail. Just trying to get the right info.

 

[onlygirloutof6]

Very Little . I raise Chickens,and guineas.

 

[keepmumsane]

These are my first batch too.. addictive and Adorable. Mine started laying at 5 weeks old. I'm learning as I go as well.

 

[thegoatpacker]

I have successfully used dry play sand and it was wonderful-very clean as the poop gets mixed in the sand so no mess

 

[Markyboy]

I always thought Japanese Quail needing 16 hours of light to lay. we are getting 7 1/2 hrs of normal day light, that is also all the Quail are getting and they have started to lay outside with no heat either

 

[dc3085]

I always thought Japanese Quail needing 16 hours of light to lay. we are getting 7 1/2 hrs of normal day light, that is also all the Quail are getting and they have started to lay outside with no heat either

Different birds are different. Some of my coturnix lay all through the winter with no lights some stop laying in early december when the days get short.

 

[mckeesbackyard]

We're day on day 19--some eggs are still in the incubator although my coturnix started hatching at day 17. We have 34 hatches out of 57 (there's one that seems like a bobble head when it walks & one that has it's neck leaning to one side--what could be the reasons for these abnormalities?)
Also, I did notice a handful eggs pipped but didn't seem to have gotten out & now I don't see any movement with them. We live 6500 ft above sea level but it's my first time hatching (ever) so I didn't read up on that--wonder if that could be the reason? I kept the humidity in the high 40's-50s but there was a day when we were gone & it got down to 22%. Then on lock down I tried to get it as high as the 70s, Temp stayed at 99.5-99.8. I have forced air. I want to incubate a new group this weekend but I don't want to make the same mistakes. Any advice?

 

[teradragon]

I think towards the end the humidity needs to be higher than what you had, high 60s. This can help the chick to get out of the egg, because if the humidity is too low they can stick to the inside of the shell.

Add wet sponges or towels to crank it up.