YWoody
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- Jun 5, 2023
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Hello to all of you helpful quail loving folks.
I'm so appreciative of all the great advice I've received, it's been so valuable to me and my little flock to have this forum.
We have been having a heat wave here in Tucson AZ! And I mean HOT! 108-110 degrees; breaking 100 degrees by 10am and not getting below 100 until 8:00pm most days. I saw this coming early on when it stated to get hot and the Old Farmer's Almanac said a really hot summer for us (they weren't kidding!).
So, with the suggestions from many of you helpful folks, back in June, I set my quail up for success...
They have ample shade, constant cool water (gravity fed from shaded source) & now they have a small mister and a fan that turns on automatically at 10am and off at 7pm. This system brings the temp in my on ground aviary down by 10 degrees I've also been placing a couple frozen liter water bottles in the aviary. My 5 hen flock is doing fine and despite the heat, I get 5 eggs every day without fail.
My question for today is this...
Could it be too hot to safely harvest my eggs? I have been doing it & eating them daily & not suffered any consequences to this point, but there are some days when I don't gather eggs until end of day, like 7pm, and the eggs have been in 100+ weather all day. My hens have 2 places in the aviary where they all lay their eggs, little depressions in the soil between the grass plants, so the eggs are never in blazing sun, but often warm to the touch. What do you guys think?
I'm so appreciative of all the great advice I've received, it's been so valuable to me and my little flock to have this forum.
We have been having a heat wave here in Tucson AZ! And I mean HOT! 108-110 degrees; breaking 100 degrees by 10am and not getting below 100 until 8:00pm most days. I saw this coming early on when it stated to get hot and the Old Farmer's Almanac said a really hot summer for us (they weren't kidding!).
So, with the suggestions from many of you helpful folks, back in June, I set my quail up for success...
They have ample shade, constant cool water (gravity fed from shaded source) & now they have a small mister and a fan that turns on automatically at 10am and off at 7pm. This system brings the temp in my on ground aviary down by 10 degrees I've also been placing a couple frozen liter water bottles in the aviary. My 5 hen flock is doing fine and despite the heat, I get 5 eggs every day without fail.
My question for today is this...
Could it be too hot to safely harvest my eggs? I have been doing it & eating them daily & not suffered any consequences to this point, but there are some days when I don't gather eggs until end of day, like 7pm, and the eggs have been in 100+ weather all day. My hens have 2 places in the aviary where they all lay their eggs, little depressions in the soil between the grass plants, so the eggs are never in blazing sun, but often warm to the touch. What do you guys think?