Are quail chicks noisy?

[lomine]

I had the same results... twice. I'm a slow learner. LOL

 

[JaeG]

I find I can turn the light off during the day around three weeks old but still keep it on at night until they are fully feathered, and our house doesn't get colder than 20C, and during the day it would be more like 24C. Until they have a reasonable amount of feathers they cannot keep enough heat in. If they are too cold they won't be able to digest their food.

That's interesting about the Mama Heatpad. I give my Button quail chicks a fuzzy cloth to hide under like they would their mother, but it has the heatlamp above it. They enjoy snuggling under it and I find it strengthens their legs as they push up into it.

 

[lomine]

I think the Cots have just been so domesticated their instinct to "get under mama" is all but gone. Mine went to the opposite side of the brooder, huddled together, and were giving the loud distress chirp. I tried herding them under the pad where is was already nice and warm but they wanted none of it, kept running back out. Put the heat lamp in and they happily laid under it. It was lucky I had it. Chicken chicks and ducklings on the other hand, love the heating pad.

 

[dpenning]

I think the Cots have just been so domesticated their instinct to "get under mama" is all but gone. Mine went to the opposite side of the brooder, huddled together, and were giving the loud distress chirp. I tried herding them under the pad where is was already nice and warm but they wanted none of it, kept running back out. Put the heat lamp in and they happily laid under it. It was lucky I had it. Chicken chicks and ducklings on the other hand, love the heating pad.

That was the same thing I found. I put them under the MHP and went to bed, found a bunch of chicks looking like road kill at the opposite end of the brooder in the morning. Put the heat lamp on that end and they slowly recovered as they warmed up. I LOVE the MHP for chickens but the quail it just didn't work for me.

 

[JaeG]

I've had a chicken raise two quail chicks she hatched (a week apart) and they loved snuggling under her. I think it's the 'snuggling' thing - quail chicks push up into their mothers feathers and with a chicken they would climb right up under her wings to get to the warmest spot. I've given my Button quail chicks hatched in the incubator a fluffy cloth to snuggle under (right under the heat lamp) and they love it. It seems to strengthen their little legs as well as they almost stand on tippy toes to push up into it.