BOBWHITE QUAIL CHICK EMERGANCY!!!!!

[kingmt]

OK
So do you have adult layers your getting them from or someone local.

 

[313759]

I have my own layers 2 little hens

 

[SliderShooter]

I didn't have the eggs shipped, I got them straight from my hens in the backyard. I let them collect up to a dozen eggs in their nest before collecting them to incubate. I tried to let the quail go broody but they would only sit on the eggs an hour after laying them then they wouldn't sit ever again.

Collect the eggs you intend to hatch as soon as possible. Do not let the hens sit on the eggs for any period of time. Collect your eggs several times a day. Store your hatching eggs in a cool place until you put them in the incubator.

Try adding a chick vitamin supplement to the chicks water for the first week. GQF sells a package for quail chicks http://www.gqfmfg.com/healthcare/5168-pak-gqf-vitamins-plus-ctn.-1/

Do not put quail chicks on wood shavings. I use alfalfa as a bedding for the first week and make sure the turkey/game bird starter is available in a quail egg paper tray or on paper towel.

It's hard to tell what your problem is and you will most likely have to go through a process of trial and error to correct the problem. Good luck and don't give up, sooner or later you will solve your issue.

 

[313759]

I collect the eggs soon after being laid, I only have 2 hens and they lay around the same time so I only go out to collect them once.

 

[SliderShooter]

Now I am confused. In an earlier post you said; "I let them collect up to a dozen eggs in their nest before collecting them to incubate."

 

[jeanetteiacovon]

My brooder isn't much, it is the bottom of one of those guinea pig cages like the bottom of this one

Accept the bottom is green and I removed the wiring at the top. The bedding was pine bedding but now it is a couple crumpled up napkins because they kept getting stuck in the hay. The feed is crumbled but I grind it up with a spoon, I make sure that there is a mix of just about powdered feed mixed with small crumbles, today I took a boiled eggs and smushed it up for extra protein. The food is in a small container top.(You know those tops that go on some whip cream bowls, it's like that but smaller in size) I would constantly ensure that the chicks( I mean chick) eats a bit of Eggs and some crumble. The water is bottled water(we did use our sink water but our water is silver so I figured changing the water would help) I let it warm up in the heat before letting them drink so they don't get diareah(or however you spell it) although they know how to drink by themselves I still dip there beak every hour or so just to make sure they get hydrated enough. I did have about a teaspoon of sugar mixed in the water in their first two days but now they have just water. I was a using a ugh I don't know what it is called but it was a light that created a lot of heat and my dad used it for work often, now I'm using a (radiator?) Heater. I put a small blanket on the edge of the heater so the chick can get some of the heat. He is able to move away from the heat by going beneath, kinda, under the heat where heat does not reach. I move him when he starts panting and if he wants warmth he'll sit in a hotspot. Oh yeah I forgot the brooder is about a foot wide and two feet long. I only had 11 chicks now I only have one so he is definitely not cramped.

oh my god...the radiator heat...is it a portable one, you know the kind you buy for extra heat and plug it in the wall. They are coated with a paint and when they get got a fuem that you can not smell gets in the air like teflon from a non stick pan and that can kill your chicks. It is safe for us but not them. Also some household scent sprays and scented candles are not good for them to breath. Check it out on the internet but look up parrots vecause chicks and quails are

 

[kingmt]

+1
I knew where you was going with that as soon as I state reading. I thought teflon.

 

[jeanetteiacovon]

oh my god...the radiator heat...is it a portable one, you know the kind you buy for extra heat and plug it in the wall. They are coated with a paint and when they get got a fuem that you can not smell gets in the air like teflon from a non stick pan and that can kill your chicks. It is safe for us but not them. Also some household scent sprays and scented candles are not good for them to breath. Check it out on the internet but look up parrots vecause chicks and quails are

and quails are not indoor birds like parrots are sorry I thought it took the entire message but for some reason it didnt.

 

[Bangarang64]

you are heating your brooder yes?

 

[313759]

Of course why wouldn't I be.