Quail baby bedding?

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Haha oh my gosh yes i'd hope so!
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even though that's funny ot think of it wouldnt be funny in real life lol! that's pretty much what i do with the stall dry i put in for my adults.


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HA! Yours might be.. mine are dumber than a box of dull hammers.
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One of them ate a feather yesterday. One picked it up and was nibbling on it, another stole it from that one, then another stole it from them and raced across the cage and gobbled it down like it was spaghetti. I couldn't catch it fast enough to pull it out. It was a flight feather, not a little fluff feather, too. One of them is convinced that if he pecks at the rocks in the water dish hard enough, he'll break them. He's dulled his beak doing that.

I don't trust 'em with wood shavings
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Though now they're almost old enough that I will. Doesn't mean they won't still eat 'em, but at least they're big enough to swallow and not choke on them. Cuz hey, if they can get a feather down..
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-Spooky
 
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HA! Yours might be.. mine are dumber than a box of dull hammers.
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One of them ate a feather yesterday. One picked it up and was nibbling on it, another stole it from that one, then another stole it from them and raced across the cage and gobbled it down like it was spaghetti. I couldn't catch it fast enough to pull it out. It was a flight feather, not a little fluff feather, too. One of them is convinced that if he pecks at the rocks in the water dish hard enough, he'll break them. He's dulled his beak doing that.

I don't trust 'em with wood shavings
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Though now they're almost old enough that I will. Doesn't mean they won't still eat 'em, but at least they're big enough to swallow and not choke on them. Cuz hey, if they can get a feather down..
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-Spooky

Okay yep you've got some weirdo quails!
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! A flight feather!? What were they thinking? okay never mind they werent! LOL! Mine as babies would play with those wavy down feathers but never eat them they'd get bored after they realized they were just feathers. I would die if i saw one eat a flight feather that's crazy....well what kinda nutrience is in a feather? I hope they got something good out of it
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I think there's protein in the feathers... I catch my chickens eating feathers from time to time, too.

As for the poo on the feet, small batches will keep them cleaner. If you have a lot of babies, they poop too much for you to keep up with it and step in it. It dries, and they step in more, and it just builds up until you have to take it off. I'm always hatching 20 or more at a time, and I have to watch their feet. The bobwhites, too... even though they're on shavings, they step in their own poo and it builds up, too.
I'm constantly removing dingleberries from the toes.
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I think there's protein in the feathers... I catch my chickens eating feathers from time to time, too.

As for the poo on the feet, small batches will keep them cleaner. If you have a lot of babies, they poop too much for you to keep up with it and step in it. It dries, and they step in more, and it just builds up until you have to take it off. I'm always hatching 20 or more at a time, and I have to watch their feet. The bobwhites, too... even though they're on shavings, they step in their own poo and it builds up, too.
I'm constantly removing dingleberries from the toes.
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ha ha dingleberries! I thought my parents were like the only ones who said that (i say it too from them ofcourse) haha! Okay that deffinatly explains why i havent experienced it...yet. Sounds like i will be when spring gets here! LOL!!!!


Protein ah ha! I was going to ask if it had protein in it! See Spooky your chick was being smart then!
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Hi, I'm from Michigan and i have been raising Quail for 6 years now and i use carpeting for reptile cages for my babies.They get good traction with it and it cleans up real easy.I keep them in a brooder stack that i bought from GQF MFG.CO. and feed them high protien turkey starter.I have Blue Scale,Gambles,Mexican Speckled,Cotournix and Silver Bobwhites.They are so fun to here them during the spring and summer. Randy, from Randysroosters Inc.
 
My first batch I put paper towels over shavings which I have done several times with bantam chicks. Then remove the paper towels as they get dirty over the next couple days. By then the chicks know what is food, you get a change of bedding without much effort or removing them all from the brooder, and the shavings underneath add traction and absorbency that you wouldn't have with just paper towels. The latest batch I just put directly on shavings because I have 2 dozen of them and I got some pine shavings that were rather large so impossible for them to eat.
 

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