How do you water your button quail babies????

[Mrs MIA]

I use the quart quail waterers and use the flattened decorative marbles all around in the trough so they can't get in. I use the marbles for all my chicks, regardless of size, to keep them out of the water, but to draw them to it, too.

 

[momof247371]

wow thats a good pic, hopefully i will have some success with the marbles

 

[NancyDz]

For my quail i use a parakeet water tube for the first week then they graduate to a quail waterer. I just got sick of cleaning the marbles every time i refilled the water as they get nasty. The parakeet tube has a flat bottom so I just stand it in a corner of the brooder or hang it depending on which brooder I'm using. No worries about them drowning as it's such a narrow spout. They are also really cheap , I've gotten them for .79 up to about $2 . depending on where i bought it.


Nancy

 

[MisHarleyLady]

I hatched out my first batch of button babies and have had 4 drown in a small butter dish lid.. I figured it was shallow enough but i was wrong... Need help before someone else tries to swim.. It would be greatly apprecited! thanks

Have you tried the pebbles in the bottom of a jar lid?

 

[Nabiki]

Have you tried the pebbles in the bottom of a jar lid?

FYI, this thread is 15 years old and the person you're replying to hasn't been online in years.

 

[007Sean]

FYI, this thread is 15 years old and the person you're replying to hasn't been online in years.
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I seriously doubt that the quail are around now, either!