What Quail can be grown in a incubator ?
Aside from Jap and Bob Whites please ?
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Californians and Aussie brown and Red leg partridge are other species i have incubator bred
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Any, but would no recommend trying Button-Quail of any sort as they need to be feed live food by the cock for about a week. Although, I can just picture you Deb, with a pair of tweezer trying to feed a penut Alicia Silverstone style 
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BluJay
Most I am aware of, Jusdeb, button quail, I did by the hundreds, some how a friend and I even came up with some that we called chocolate. I have never had any problems, with the golden, ringneck, bob whites, california valley, coturnix or others. About the same as hatching chickens.
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Ok hmm VR1 sounds like hard work so might leave buttons for now ..
Ive just given my Jap eggs away but have a few King eggs from my Silver girl who woulf rather play soccer with them than sit on ....this might be fun .
Ive just given my Jap eggs away but have a few King eggs from my Silver girl who woulf rather play soccer with them than sit on ....this might be fun .
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BluJay
Jusdeb, if you have an incubator, once they hatch, just give them a good qaulity chicken starter, make sure they have good surface to walk so they don't get straddle legged. Marbles in water dish.
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Deb, I think BluJay's reference to button quail is what we know as King Quail, Not the true Button Quail native to Australia.BluJay wrote:Most I am aware of, Jusdeb, button quail, I did by the hundreds, ]
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Bluejay you have had no problems with Chicken Starter? I always used Turkey Starter...found better growth and minimal losses.BluJay wrote:Jusdeb, if you have an incubator, once they hatch, just give them a good qaulity chicken starter, make sure they have good surface to walk so they don't get straddle legged. Marbles in water dish
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BluJay
No, no problems with chicken starter, only time I ever lost any is if they were able to knock a marble out of the waterer, rather thin lid, which I used for the first 72 hours, or the small quail waterers.
As for the Jap or what I know as coturnix, I did lots of the Texas A&M, as it was developed to be the chicken replacer, it is an all white meat bird. It is also pleasing to the eye, it is snow white with a black dot on the back of the head.
Here is an overflow of a days collection of eggs, my sis had fill a 3 gallon bucket up, I collected what she missed.
As for the Jap or what I know as coturnix, I did lots of the Texas A&M, as it was developed to be the chicken replacer, it is an all white meat bird. It is also pleasing to the eye, it is snow white with a black dot on the back of the head.
Here is an overflow of a days collection of eggs, my sis had fill a 3 gallon bucket up, I collected what she missed.