Second try at hatching quails! (This time I'm sharing the whole experience with you!)

[IceHax]

Update: they all seem happy and healthy running around, they eat and drink regularly and I fill up their water dish 3 times a day (when I wake up, after school and before going to sleep), some of them are already huge compared to some others. The small one is starting to become normal sized and he also eats and drinks no problem , they make a mess but I'm just gonna deal with it for now, I clean their brooder daily.

 

[Kiki]

Update: they all seem happy and healthy running around, they eat and drink regularly and I fill up their water dish 3 times a day (when I wake up, after school and before going to sleep), some of them are already huge compared to some others. The small one is starting to become normal sized and he also eats and drinks no problem , they make a mess but I'm just gonna deal with it for now, I clean their brooder daily.

They grow really fast.

 

[IceHax]

Hmm, imI having trouble keeping them all hydrated, the perfect water dish would be a birthday cake plastic dish I have laying around, but the water evaporates way too fast, I'm finding the water dish often completely empty, and I fill it up at least 3 times a day. I tried a tower waterer but they clog it up with food and poop... Does anyone have any advices?

 

[aart]

I tried a tower waterer but they clog it up with food and poop... Does anyone have any advices?

What does the tower waterer look like?
Can you raise it up on a board or brick to help keep bedding from being kicked in?

 

[Kiki]

Do you have plastic kitchen containers that you can cut up?
Something like these...you will need a few.

 

[aart]

Do you have plastic kitchen containers that you can cut up?

Couldn't they crawl in there and...not get back out?

 

[Kiki]

Couldn't they crawl in there and...not get back out?

Yes they could but I haven't had that happen yet.
What I do it fill it with these glass cubes.

I much prefer regular chick waterers filled with these glass stones instead though.

 

[aart]

I much prefer regular chick waterers filled with these glass stones instead though.

Yes...me too!
Wonders if that what they are calling a tower waterer?

 

[Kiki]

@IceHax when you wake up show us your tower thing.
We can help you rig it so it will work better than your cake pan.

 

[IceHax]

@IceHax when you wake up show us your tower thing.
We can help you rig it so it will work better than your cake pan.

Yeah, my bad I don't know how they are called so I used the first word that came to my mind lol, it's a regular chicken waterer, the water comes out gradually while they drink thanks to gravity and pressure the problem @aart is not the bedding as much as the food that they kick up (the feeder is near the waterer since I'm lacking space, fortunately I built this brooder so that I can connect multiple boxes to enlarge it as needed, illI add a second one once they are large enough to be able to go to a colder area, since the other box wouldn't be as warm as the one with the lamp on it , they seem to have calmed down a bit, so the waterer hasn't clogged up again in the past 6 hours thankfully I will try @Texas Kiki ''s method tomorrow when I feg back from school (2pm CET) meanwhile I'll just remove the junk when I see it