button quail

[Mrs MIA]

1/2" will be too big... try 1/4" with the non-skid shelf liner on top... works really well!!
1/2" they can get their heads stuck through, so you don't want it as the divider between them and the light either... trust me. Experience speaking here!

 

[shmooborp]

how long do they take to hatch? hey coffee do u have fertile button quail eggs?

 

[Mrs MIA]

16-18 days incubation... and they're quick!

 

[chickenlisa]

Mrs AK- do you mean 1/4" hardware cloth for when they are full grown? I've never had them, but I'll use as a brooder box the big rubbermaid plastic bin with a window screen over it or maybe just an old fish aquarium if only some of them hatch...with it covered and heated with a heat lamp of course.How small do their waterers and feeders need to be? Do ordinary chick feeders and waterers with marbles work?
Lisa

 

[priszilla]

I used quail waterers with mine- and grind up the feed ( I used gamebird starter) for the first little bit.They are so tiny and fast

 

[Mrs MIA]

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In the incubator/hatcher, use 1/4" hardware cloth. The little chick's heads are so small they fit through the 1/2". I came down one morning to find 3 chicks hatched, two of them securely stuck in the wire. I had to cut them out. They're fine, but I learned my lesson and put up 1/4".

I use a glass aquarium with the rubber matting in it. For the first few days I put water in a jar-lid with the squashed marbles in it. It works well, but you have to watch it like crazy because it dries up quick. Then I put in the jar with the quail waterer base, with marbles in it for the first couple of weeks. You can use the chick waterer, just make sure it's completely filled with marbles. When you put them in the brooder, sprinkle the ground up gamebird feed (don't use medicated chick starter - it's not good for them) generously on the brooder floor so they can easily find it. After a couple of days I start putting it in a lid, then progressively larger until they're full grown. Right now I am using a chick base, the aluminum one with the 5 holes in it? They can get into that just fine.
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I got my button eggs from Jodi...

 

[coffeemama]

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Hey shmoo! I'm getting an order of eggs from Don Eisenbeisz in WA hopefully next week. Do you want some of the eggs or chicks? I do have a pair that produces fertile eggs, but they aren't laying super regularly. I would give you a few of their eggs if you just wanted a few to try. I think you should go in with me on my eggs order though

 

[animal_lover]

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Hey shmoo! I'm getting an order of eggs from Don Eisenbeisz in WA hopefully next week. Do you want some of the eggs or chicks? I do have a pair that produces fertile eggs, but they aren't laying super regularly. I would give you a few of their eggs if you just wanted a few to try. I think you should go in with me on my eggs order though

I can probably throw in a few extra eggs if you would like.

 

[coffeemama]

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Who were you saying this to? Do you live near us? I'm confused!

 

[Mom 2em All]

I have button quail eggs coming after July 5th. I hatched them before, years ago- like little bumble bees-the chicks were so tiny. I remember the males I had used to fight-badly- How do you prevent this, or do you just seperate them all? What is your hen to cock ratio? I cant remember how I did it, but I think I had two female for every one male..and one lone male.