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Start with a small amount on paper towels to make sure that all birds begin eating. This will make it more palatable to the chicks. If your starter feed is too coarse, it will need to be ground up before it is fed to baby quail. **IMPORTANT** Initially baby quail need finely ground feed. I use a non-medicated game bird starter feed with 30% protein for the first six weeks. Overall quail need a high quality, high protein feed. Baby Quail on straw Week 2 – Quick growth comes from great nutrition Then provide around 1 square foot per chick after 3 weeks of age. The chicks will need around 1/2 square foot each in the brooder. Then lower the temperature by 5 degrees each week until they are fully feathered out. Use a good working thermometer, a few degree can kill your quail. Start the heat off at 95 to 97 degrees Fahrenheit. The transition from the incubator to the brooder is critical. Week 1 – Temperature is the most important thing to monitorīeyond food and water, the real issue for the first week is the temperature in the brooder.

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I use a quart jar chicken waterer and fill the rim with rocks to keep the chicks from getting full access. Make sure your chicks have access to the water, but can’t get fully into it or their head into the waterer. If you have access to a well or can use filtered water it is much better for the quail.įinally, young quail are susceptible to drowning or getting wet and sick from waterers. I also don’t recommend using municipal tap water, as it contains too much chlorine and fluoride. They get a great start and finish strong. I haven’t lost one quail chick since using it. I completely stole this idea from Justin Rhodes at Abundant Permaculture, but using his recipe for water during the first week has changed how I raise chicks. Baby Quail Day 1 – Get your quail chicks off to a great start with Miracle Water!Īdd 2 cloves of garlic, 2 Tablespoons apple cider vinegar and ½ cup of honey per 1/2 gallon to the quail chicks water. It also allows the chicks to be accustomed to day/night light cycles instead of light 24/7. While I could lose electricity or have this unit break, that is less likely than a bulb burning out. This allows the quail chicks to move into and out of the even heat easily.

The one real problem I had with this setup was if the bulb went out the chicks died. The important part is to maintain the correct amount of heat and allowing for room in the brooder for the chicks to move out and away from the heat source if they get too hot. Since that was really never a problem for me, I can neither confirm nor deny.

Then after some reading, I switched to a red bulb, which is supposed to help cut down on the chicks pecking each other. I used this type when I first got started and it worked fine. A large bulb with a metal shield to direct most of the heat down. The usual source is a brooder lamp, typical to what they sell for chickens. There are a couple of a couple of schools of thought. I am currently using a 40 gallon square fish tank for the first few weeks, then switch to a 275 gallon food grade tote cut in half. The general idea being a round brooder doesn’t have any corners for chicks to get trapped in and crushed or freeze. I have used both square and round brooders.

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The brooder needs to have enough room for all the chicks you have room, plus food, water, and a heat source. Meanwhile, you need to focus on creating a brooder environment to house them in after you remove them from the incubator. Therefore you can wait for a large group to hatch and limit the number of times you open the brooder and lose the built up heat. The day has finally arrived! Your quail chicks are ready to hatch!įirst of all, for the first 72 hours they are still absorbing the yolk sacks, so they can stay in the incubator.

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How to easily raise day old quail chicks to maturity

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