new to quails.. late questions

[dc3085]

New to quails but have been keeping and hatching chicken a few years now, we have just set 84 eggs in the Incubator thinking these would be simple and now have questions... our bad!!

Questions we think are simple,silly and probably common sense;

We understand that these birds will need keeping in a brooder for around 4 weeks at a ambient temperature, so will they need a heat source like chicks and what is the ambient temperature? As weathers getting warmer I fort they could come out The brooder earlier.

We are planing on feeding them layers out chickens have what advice would you give us on this from YOUR experience?

A couple of pairs in an aviary get by ok, otherwise you need to raise them apart. Coturnix and buttons have totally different personalities. They are nothing alike.

Chinese quail 1:1 coturnix quail 1:4-1:7. Don't use multiple roos in hobby style cages or they will kill each other.

This is what we knocked together for there accommodation do you think its practical?

Front I added a door so if we want to use it for breeding hens etc we can it gives it a multi use.


Side angle with out the roof.. which is detachable.


The roof detached for easy acces to all the accommodation. I was think of putting it on hinges.


The final finished piece with my littke helper trying it out!


Also what can I use for them to lay eggs in bearing in mind I will be putting bark down with bushes in there too.

They don't lay on a nest like chickens, they have almost no wild instincts left. Only 1 in a million (seriously) will ctually make a nest and sit on it. Mostly they just lay wherever they happen to be standing.

For the last two stupid question what are male and female quails called ? Is it just cockerel and hen like chickens?
Hens and Roos

Thank I advance for your help!

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[joshremlin]

Brill thanks again for your advice so if I get this problem I could clip them wish the last resort putting them on mesh I did want to make it as much as I could like there wild habitat.

 

[Quail Jailer]

I was trying to give brief answers, but I stand by my temperatures.

Everyone else is also right, let me explain...

the temperatures I gave are the maximum available in my brooders, for the given week.

my brooders are rectangular with a single heat source centered over one half.

Directly below this lamp is the hot spot which at week one I will maintain at 100 degrees.

the temperatures throughout the rest of the brooder will be lower. the chicks do not linger in

the hot spot . So the actual temperatures the chicks are exposed to are less, I simply let

the chicks decide.