Quailmandan
Hatching
- May 29, 2018
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Hey guys, I am Daniel. I raise Bobwhite Quail in Chapin SC. I am starting a business to sell flight ready birds to local hunters. I am involved in the FFA, and recently, in one of our agriculture/ffa classes, we built 2 large brooders (8 by 4 foot). Recently we had 86 chicks out of 100 eggs hatch, and we put them into one of our georgia quail farm brooders. Then when we finished the 2 big large wood brooders, we put them in there. The quail are around 4-6 days old. Every since I have put them in the big wooden brooder, I have had about 8-9 quail die in a matter of 2 DAYS!! 4 died as of last night. I made the decision this morning to move them back to the metal GFQ brooder, until we could figure out if something was wrong with the wooden brooder. So, I checked the temperature of the wood brooder again, and it was well within the range of temperature, at around 89-92. We try and decrease temperature 5 degrees every week. Anyways, there food, water, etc was perfect, even the heatlamp correctly placed on one side of the brooder, so one side has heat, and one side has a place for them to cool down. I noticed that the brooder still had a lot of sawdust on it from us cutting wood, since it literally was finished about 4 days ago. I looked up that there is a toxin in sawdust, called tarrin, in which can kill chicks. i was wondering what you guys think. Also we were using Cedar savings as bedding. Do I need to use aspen bedding instead. Maybe do you guys think that i should vacuum thoroughly.