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OK, I just saw that they were in the garage. I never saw a post where you said you'd brought them in. (Or, maybe your garage is warm! Mine isn't. Brrrr.) I probably just missed one of your posts.
My garage is sitting at 48 degrees right now. That's with a heat vent open & a space heater on. Brrrrrr.
That's way to chilly to me as well, but for a fully feathered coturnix adult...It's room temperature, and egg laying heaven. Turn off the IR heat lamps and get you 4 watt nightlight. Feed them good feed. Give them 14+ hours of full spectrum white light in their 24 hour period. Put on a set of safety glasses, because they should be putting your eyes out shooting eggs in your face!
Coturnix are not buttons! 48 deg. is nothing to an adult coturnix. I fear that people confuse coturnix with buttons, and also confuse coturnix chicks with polar bears and adult coturnix. It takes a lot of heat to raise coturnix from day old chick to 7+ week old young adult, but once they cross that threshold, then fretting about temp ranges between 30 and 75 are moot! They can handle it!
Yeah, I know the coturnix are fine in it. My girls are still out there, with Christmas lights. I can't let it get too cold out there - pipes will freeze.
Buttons, on the other hand, are all in the house in the toasty warm 70 degree basement.
I'm worried about Ra's buttons, unless he has a fully heated garage, unlike mine.
