My quail are about 4 and a half weeks old now and fully feathered out. But can they handle the move to the outdoor hutches when it is below freezing? Check out my Amazon Shop for products I use and recommend - www.amazon.com...
They look like there is no problem for them at all. Ours are now 9 weeks old and we have not lost any at all. Thanks for all the great info on these birds. God Bless brother.
I kept mine inside until they were a month old and fully feathered, and than I moved them outside, and I had one person commented on my video on Tok Tok , saying that I kept them too long , he said I need to keep them in a brooder for 8 days than take them outside, which maybe 🤔 makes sense because he lives in Texas 😄😂, and I live in the Massachusetts where it’s cold ) anyways great video beautiful birds 👍🏼
Chris, I moved my 4-week olds from the brooder to an unheated greenhouse over the weekend. Dropped to -8 that night. I only lost two out of about 100, so not too bad.
Quail are super easy. I was on the fence about adding anything else when my step brother emailed me and asked me if I wanted his daughter's quail because she wanted to focus on rabbits. I got 22 free quail, which ended up costing me around $200 in hutch materials. But they're fat and happy, and laying about four eggs per day. They don't eat much, either. Maybe 40 ounces of meatbird crumbles a day. I was going to make a feeder for them, but I had an old feeder from a "chick starter kit" I got at Rural King. I haven't noticed any feed on the ground under the feeder, so they aren't making a mess with that bell feeder either.
Yah snow and cold is not a problem for quail, but it sucks if you have to walk though deep snow to get to your birds. Like today I awoke to over a foot of snow.
nice of Max to be running security for any escaping birbs while your transferring them to the growout cage. I dont know what it is about your videos that are so relaxing and enjoyable to watch.
Brilliant video and thanks very much. I'm just about to start out for the first time and the water issue and cold at night did concern me, so that gives me some piece of mind watching this
Last night my docile male was attacked by a very aggressive male and brutally killed. There was blood everywhere. That leaves me with 9 females and one male in a 24 square-foot cage. Do I keep the male for breeding or should I wait for another male? Is aggression a genetic trait? Should I replace the aggressive male ASAP? What should I do? I feel I should send him to freezer camp as soon as possible. I won't tolerate that for a minute longer than absolutely necessary.
would wild quail find a brush pile and semi-burrow a windbreak? --- i wonder if the big chunky mesquite charcoal would be cozy and beneficial as a bedding and also smell absorbing? ---you could ever rinse it off
Yesterday I found one of my quail dead, examined it and no sign of injuries It was really cold so I think it froze to death Fully grown quail so not sure why it happened
