Amen! I got an incubator Christmas 2022 and my incubator has stayed on consistency with maybe a total of 1 month of a break combined time. Started with an accidental rooster in my chicken flock! Then a friend gave me 10 quail and it was all over. I’d rather incubate and reproduce than eat the eggs. Plus chickens and other animals can eat raw quail eggs! Win win! I just hatched out 24 quail within the last couple days! 19 survivors! Yay! If anyone is a newb to incubating quail eggs you will learn that you will have more pass away after birth than chickens. So tiny but so freaking adorbs!
Quail can adapt extremely well to the coldest of temps. They do not need to be coddled with heat and the indoors, unless they are young or sick. If the temp is planning on getting down to minus 10 or 20, then you might consider a small heat lamp. But other than this, they will survive outside, if given the proper shelter completely out of all wind, snow and rain.
Quail can adapt extremely well to the coldest of temps. They do not need to be coddled with heat and the indoors, unless they are young or sick. If the temp is planning on getting down to minus 10 or 20, then you might consider a small heat lamp. But other than this, they will survive outside, if given the proper shelter completely out of all wind, snow and rain.
When it comes to keeping any species of bird in cold climate, some breeds definitely do better than others. However most healthy birds will adapt to their environment. Definitely started as chicks in the spring, by late fall they will have learned to deal with your highs, lows and to some degree, extremes. So if you lived in Alaska say, and your birds were used to temps between 50F and 20F by late fall early winter, as the temp drops slowly into winter to -20 to -30, technically they should be able to adapt to these cold temps as long as the weather changed slowly. You couldn't take a bird out of Florida and expect them to survive living in Alaska and visa versa. Generally most birds can tolerate 20 degree drops from normal over night temps without struggling too much. 30 or more degrees colder than the average over night lows might put them in danger.
Coturnix quail can handle below freezing temperatures quite well. Button quail, however, are from SE Asia and cannot handle temperatures below 40-50 well.
