Lockdown day.

[quailmama 82012]

Hello! My quail eggs just shipped y ester day and I'm storing them in a carton till I put them in a incubator. Which is today. But, I have a question. I've heard people say that you should enter lock down on day 15 and some on 14. I just want the best for my quail so I'm a little nervous.

 

[R2elk]

Hello! My quail eggs just shipped yesterday and I'm storing them in a carton till I put them in a incubator. Which is today. But, I have a question. I've heard people say that you should enter lock down on day 15 and some on 14. I just want the best for my quail so I'm a little nervous.

It really doesn't matter whether you go to lockdown on day 14 or 15. Either will work and neither will be harmful to the eggs.

 

[Lemon88]

Quail are so hardy a friend of mine was hatching eggs and she must've gotten the dates wrong so she never did a lockdown and all of the quail hatched without trouble.

 

[quailmama 82012]

wow! thanks for the info!

 

[quailmama 82012]

so I've been doing a lot of research and i want to make my quail as friendly (to me) as possible and i realized that that was going to be hard. Some people isolate one chick and handle them as much as possible and they say that there quail are very friendly. but I think that is so sad because these sociable animals deserve friends of their own kind. so i was thinking, maby if i had two separate brooders, and did all the things that those people did, but kept the first two to hatch separate, and handled those more often than the others that those two would be the most friendly. Any thoughts or tips?

 

[Lemon88]

My tamest quail were a male/female pair I separated from the main group due to fighting. If you separate them into pairs they have their quail friend and also more interaction with you. The pair were tamed when they were adults, so don't worry if they arent as tame as babies. The pair were able to roam around in the yard and followed me everywhere! When my quail were babies I just tried to handle them frequently (without stressing them too much) and handfeeding them

 

[Quailobsessed]

so I've been doing a lot of research and i want to make my quail as friendly (to me) as possible and i realized that that was going to be hard. Some people isolate one chick and handle them as much as possible and they say that there quail are very friendly. but I think that is so sad because these sociable animals deserve friends of their own kind. so i was thinking, maby if i had two separate brooders, and did all the things that those people did, but kept the first two to hatch separate, and handled those more often than the others that those two would be the most friendly. Any thoughts or tips?

I had a king quail that I hand raised alone as a chick, though in this case it was not by choice. She had been rejected by her parents as soon as she hatched. I raised her and she became very tame, though since she was alone, she was wanting attention constantly. Two and a half weeks later, her sisters got rejected, one died, but we revived the other one and put her with the hand raised chick. They ended up bonding and have gone on to help raise their siblings when they get rejected. My hand raised quail is still tame, she gets a hug from me everyday and loves being held.

Though it's been very rewarding raising a quail that loves me, I would not choose to raise chicks alone. I am hand raising three king quail chicks that were all rejected by their parents at the moment and though they may not come quite as tame that way, at least they're happy with each other. You still can raise tame chicks together, you may not quite have the same bond, but it's easier for you and the chick.