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76 degrees in the day hours up to 80 and down between 74 and 71 degrees at night

Thank you! My research said to lower the temp by 5 degrees each week so that’s what I’ve been doing. I turned it off and they seem happy

No their brooder is in a separate room from the rest of the house but they only do it when they’re sleeping I’m not sure why and researching it hasn’t given me any answers

So should I adjust their heat down?

Hey all I have a possibly dumb question. My three week old quail recently started piling on top of each other. I know that if they do it under the heat source they’re too cold, and if they do it far from the heat source they’re too hot. The brooder temperature is at 82 degrees and the quail are...

Thanks! Yes I want to be able to hatch as needed so I want one pen with fertile eggs

I do want eggs mostly but I also want to be able to hatch more quail from my own eggs as needed so I want to keep that as an option thank you!

Hey all! I’m new to raising quail and I’ve read that male to female ratio is very important for the quails health and safety. The coop plans we built house 8 quail each. And two coops stack so we can house a total of 16 but two different coveys. Would 7 females to 1 male be an appropriate or...

Yes they are the ones that the feed supply store suggested but they have since been switched out for pine

Did you ever figure out what it was? I have 15 babies that are a week and a half old. One has scissor beak and another still looks maybe three days old. The other 14 including the one with scissor beak are growing and like 5 times as big as him. They’re all getting adult feathers but this one...

Sorry! It’s their beak. It’s scissor beak and in the last two days it’s become significantly worse

I just noticed that he/she has a slightly misaligned. Could that be the issue? Maybe they’re uncomfortable

I completely agree with you I don’t plan to reorder from them nor recommend them. This was my first time ordering eggs or hatching them and I’ll admit I didn’t do enough research and just chose one of the first sellers that came up when I searched online

Yeah it has been really hard emotionally. I tried so hard to keep the babies that were struggling alive but losing half of the ones that hatched after only hatching half the eggs to begin with has been hard. But I also know it’s a learning curve and I’m new to this.