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[crazyfarmer]

Am beginning to raise some quail. Have 3 pharoh quail and gonna be ordering some tuxedo quail as soon as tomorrow. Love them so far

 

[serama hen]

Hi,

You don't say which species of quail you have, so I'll have to guess.lol.

Incubation times are different for most species so:-

Chinese painted quail or button quail (coturnix chinesis) take 16 days.
Japanese quail (coturnix japonica) take 17/18 days.

Your incubator needs to be set for 37.5°C or 99.5°F for forced air incubators (fan assitted) a degree higher if they are in a still air incubator.

The humidity needs to be about 38-40%.

Turn the eggs three times a day for 13 days for Cpq eggs and 15 days for the Japanese. Add more water to increase the humidity to 60-65% at this time and stop turning the eggs for three days. Do not open your incubator up in these last three days, or you'll lose the humidity,this is important to aid the chick get out of it's shell, it keeps the inner membrane moist.

You can feed your newly hatched chicks on chick crumbs with an added boiled egg mixed in. Feed them on this for 4 week, then move them onto a grower mixture. Japanese quail females need to be moved onto a layer meal at 6 weeks old as they'll soon be laying themselves.

Quails generally live between 3 and 5 years.

Hope this gives to an insight to quail keeping, there is a quail forum you can join it's http://coturnixcorneruk.forumotion.com/i…
There are many people on there that will help you out with any question.

 

[serama hen]

Am beginning to raise some quail. Have 3 pharoh quail and gonna be ordering some tuxedo quail as soon as tomorrow. Love them so far

quails are awsome pets arent they cute and funny

 

[serama hen]

I do not find them anything like chickens. Maybe when I hatch my own I will.

i dont know i heard they are and they do seem like it

 

[serama hen]

so how is everyone hatching quails doing!PICS PLZZ

 

[serama hen]

I wanna keep this thread alive and running!! not like other threads that die out.

 

[crazyfarmer]

Er yeah they are coturnix quail.

 

[quailtrail]

Hi,


You don't say which species of quail you have, so I'll have to guess.lol.


Incubation times are different for most species so:-

Chinese painted quail or button quail (coturnix chinesis) take 16 days.
Japanese quail (coturnix japonica) take 17/18 days.


Your incubator needs to be set for 37.5°C or 99.5°F for forced air incubators (fan assitted) a degree higher if they are in a still air incubator.


The humidity needs to be about 38-40%.


Turn the eggs three times a day for 13 days for Cpq eggs and 15 days for the Japanese. Add more water to increase the humidity to 60-65% at this time and stop turning the eggs for three days. Do not open your incubator up in these last three days, or you'll lose the humidity,this is important to aid the chick get out of it's shell, it keeps the inner membrane moist.


You can feed your newly hatched chicks on chick crumbs with an added boiled egg mixed in. Feed them on this for 4 week, then move them onto a grower mixture. Japanese quail females need to be moved onto a layer meal at 6 weeks old as they'll soon be laying themselves.


Quails generally live between 3 and 5 years.


Hope this gives to an insight to quail keeping, there is a quail forum you can join it's [COLOR=0066CC]http://coturnixcorneruk.forumotion.com/i…[/COLOR]

There are many people on there that will help you out with any question.

Thanks yes they are coturnix...not sure which kind as she didn't say.

 

[SilkieRose]

What type of incubator is best for quail. I made my own, but I need a turner!!!

I don't want to spend too much, but what does everybody use? I'm on day 8 with 33 Jumbo Pharaoh & either Tibetan or Cinnamon.

 

[James the Bald]

What type of incubator is best for quail. I made my own, but I need a turner!!!

I don't want to spend too much, but what does everybody use? I'm on day 8 with 33 Jumbo Pharaoh & either Tibetan or Cinnamon.

Funny you should ask. This evening, I was surfing the web and found this UTube video of a homemade egg turner. Amoung other things, it's rather long and monotone, the video camera is set on a tripod and he does things just outside of camera view, and does all real building off camera. He also has another video of his incubator, and has a time lapse video of his egg turner in operation. Just warning you, the first video is LONG and boring.