BOBWHITE QUAIL CHICK EMERGANCY!!!!!

[313759]

Alright. That's ok, your just trying to help

 

[313759]

Same problem

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...te-quail-dropping-like-flies/30#post_11361365

 

[kingmt]

There is nothing wrong with feeding them cooked eggs but don't let them know they are eating eggs once they get old enough to lay. If they find out their eggs are so tasty they won't share them with you anymore.

 

[shortgrass]

Just a simple inquiry, really.... Why are you incubating when you have hens? Just hooked on the 'Bator?

They might have a better shot if they can be brooded by a hen; they get immunities etc from their parents, fed, they get raised how they need to be, not lucky guesses.... I'm following because I have 34 bobs scheduled to pip next Sunday

 

[313759]

Because I don't have any broody bobwhite hens. I mean they protect the nest and bite me when I try to get eggs but they don't sit on them. But when they do they only sit on the eggs for a few minutes and never set on the eggs again till the next day. I tried trying to get them broody but they refuse. Do you have a broody? I wish I did. I get jealous when o hear other people have broody birds because I have never had a broody bird of any kind.

 

[shortgrass]

Because I don't have any broody bobwhite hens. I mean they protect the nest and bite me when I try to get eggs but they don't sit on them. But when they do they only sit on the eggs for a few minutes and never set on the eggs again till the next day. I tried trying to get them broody but they refuse. Do you have a broody? I wish I did. I get jealous when o hear other people have broody birds because I have never had a broody bird of any kind.

Oh. Well lol, that was a simple reason, and I feel like maybe you already mentioned it

No, nobody broody; I'm hatching my first batch of bobs this weekend, lol... Incubator. But I have been curious if anyone puts them under the chickens... I know, diseases and all, probably not... My DH put ANY egg under a broody hen lol...duck, goose, some pheasant... No, sorry, no broody quail

 

[kingmt]

"But I have been curious if anyone puts them under the chickens... I know, diseases and all, probably not... My DH put ANY egg under a broody hen lol...duck, goose, some pheasant..."

Knowing diseases & all I can't understand why anyone would however they do.

 

[shortgrass]

"But I have been curious if anyone puts them under the chickens... I know, diseases and all, probably not... My DH put ANY egg under a broody hen lol...duck, goose, some pheasant..."

Knowing diseases & all I can't understand why anyone would however they do.

Lol well yeah, of course ha-ha I just asked because the ducks geese etc do just fine...and we have wild bobs that live in our yard; that's why I wondered if they weren't acclimated to each other, and sharing common ground already, that immunity would already be there etc...

But I think too much....

 

[kingmt]

I'm not saying it isn't posable but those wild bobs could be lucky so far or going off somewhere to die also. Without a way of tracking & testing there is no way to know for sure. I only know what I've seen & what I've read so I try to put the two together for best practices. I have set my own rules based on this knowledge. So far I've made an exception to these rules three times. I must be the person that hits on the lest of odds because eveytime I've made an exception it cost me money.

I've read that ducks are immune to almost everything by truthfully even after raising them I know nothing about them or geese ether. I don't know if geese & quail can be raised together. I wouldn't try it to see tho. Animals in the wild aren't as likely to infect others as is those that are always kept close together but they do still make others sick. Most animals don't allow the same species in their territory which protects them form spreading sickness to each other.

 

[dc3085]

Ive seen a pekin intentionally drown a bantam cochin rooster faster than we could cross the yard to interfere. Id avoid putting any waterfowl with quail.