California quail dying please help?!!

[grizzlyman89701]

hello I recently got 100 California valley quail and have them in a galvanized cattle trough with two heat lamps water with mineral supplement and powdered show bird feed however within 72 hours 30 have died. Please help!!!

 

[Kiki]

How did you get them...where they shipped?
What is the actual temperature in the brooder?

Do you have the heat on only one side of the brooder...where they have room/an area to get away from the heat?

 

[grizzlyman89701]

How did you get them...where they shipped?
What is the actual temperature in the brooder?

Do you have the heat on only one side of the brooder...where they have room/an area to get away from the heat?

Yes they have plenty of room to move away from the heat

 

[grizzlyman89701]

I got them from Murray mcmu

How did you get them...where they shipped?
What is the actual temperature in the brooder?

Do you have the heat on only one side of the brooder...where they have room/an area to get away from the heat?

I got them from Murray mcmurray

 

[grizzlyman89701]

Brooder temp is

How did you get them...where they shipped?
What is the actual temperature in the brooder?

Do you have the heat on only one side of the brooder...where they have room/an area to get away from the heat?

Brooder temp is 95 degrees

 

[grizzlyman89701]

Brooder temp is

How did you get them...where they shipped?
What is the actual temperature in the brooder?

Do you have the heat on only one side of the brooder...where they have room/an area to get away from the heat?

Brooder temp is 95 degrees

 

[Kiki]

Are you making sure they are drinking?


Have you read this yet:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/hatching-quail-eggs-and-brooding-quail-chicks.67362/