Quail

[Finnish]

Bought a new Brinsea incubator from Lewis(Hatchitincubators). For next year's breeding. Thought I would have a little practice with some quail eggs. So got 24 eggs sent to me in the post, stuck them in the incubator. Ran the incubator at 37.5.

[Finnish]

I put the eggs in on the 23/05/2006. So this morning I stopped the cradle from moving. And noticed that one egg has pipped. So pulled it out and had a little listen and could hear a little squeak. Put the egg back in took the dog for a walk come back and there was my first little quail.

[Finnish]

So one down 23 to go. Does anyone else breed quail. This little one makes so much noise it's unbelivable. My dog has not got a clue what's going on at the moment. Look at her here.

[Finnish]

It seem's very strange just looked in the incubator and not one of the eggs has pipped.

[AmateurAustringer]

My mate used to, using an home made incubator! :supz: Dont you need a top on your 'brooder'?

[Finnish]

My mate used to, using an home made incubator! :supz: Dont you need a top on your 'brooder'?

Do you have to have a top Steve its very hot in there at the moment..

[AmateurAustringer]

Do you have to have a top Steve its very hot in there at the moment..

I suppose not mate, with this weather also thinking about it, just everyone I've seen has a top, with a lone chick its hard to tell if its too hot or cold too.

I had problems trying to hatch in an Oct 20 also the air flow caused the membranes to dry out and the chicks got stuck.

I used a flooded hatchmaker for hatching this year, alot less stressful.

(this was not with Quail eggs mind, after seeing them hatching in a homemade incubator they must be hardy things... :lol: )

[Blaze]

I put 8 quail eggs from my own quail in my new incubator last year!....1 hatched a few were infertile and a few dead in shell?....I havnt a clue why as the next batch i raised i got 9 out of 12 eggs!

Adam

[Finnish]

Steve this is just a made up box for the night mate the quail are going to a friend who has a propper brodder.:D

[World.Hunters]

has anyone got pictures of homemade incubators? i was thinking of a few quail but havnt the cash for an icubator

how much it cost to make one?

how sucessful was the process?


cheers:supz:

[World.Hunters]

also another 1

has any1 simply used adult quails and let them sit on the eggs ect

[Intek Hosting]

also another 1

has any1 simply used adult quails and let them sit on the eggs ect

Yes you could do that, but only if you intended to hatch a small clutch and start again.
Quail hens will keep laying if you remove their eggs so leaving them ends up being counter productive if your intention is to hatch any kind of volume.
Even removing the eggs you need several hens to fill an incubator as the longer they are stored before setting the worse the hatch rates become.

To be perfectly honest with you if you dont have the cash to throw away on an incubator then give breeding Quail a miss completely.

Quail are particularly difficult to rear, need a very high protein diet if you want good growth rates and unless youre doing a few hundred at a time, its cheaper to buy them frozen and defrost to feed to your bird.
Yes a freshly killed Quail may be healthier for your bird (DO NOT FEED A LIVE QUAIL TO YOUR BIRD!!!!!) but if cost is even a slight concern to you I would just give it a miss on a small scale or make a Heath Robinson hatcher and do chickens that will grow on much cheaper foods!!

Just my opinion

[Kevin Massey]

dont talk to me about incubators:roll:

[Finnish]

Are your quail still running Kev.:D

[World.Hunters]

Yes you could do that, but only if you intended to hatch a small clutch and start again.
Quail hens will keep laying if you remove their eggs so leaving them ends up being counter productive if your intention is to hatch any kind of volume.
Even removing the eggs you need several hens to fill an incubator as the longer they are stored before setting the worse the hatch rates become.

To be perfectly honest with you if you dont have the cash to throw away on an incubator then give breeding Quail a miss completely.

Quail are particularly difficult to rear, need a very high protein diet if you want good growth rates and unless youre doing a few hundred at a time, its cheaper to buy them frozen and defrost to feed to your bird.
Yes a freshly killed Quail may be healthier for your bird (DO NOT FEED A LIVE QUAIL TO YOUR BIRD!!!!!) but if cost is even a slight concern to you I would just give it a miss on a small scale or make a Heath Robinson hatcher and do chickens that will grow on much cheaper foods!!

Just my opinion

cheers jessica it was just an idea always like the idea of breeding the birds food for my self dont know why lol

can u give me more info on the Heath Robinson hatcher

[Heike]

It seem's very strange just looked in the incubator and not one of the eggs has pipped.

Finnish, did you fill the water tray,s on day 16?
quail usualy hatch on day 17 - 18
You should candle on day 10 and throw out the duds,
Up humidity on day 16 and get a hatch on day 17 -18 and a bit beyond.

Hope this helps, cheers Heike

[Sandeep]

Nice one...:supz:

[Kevin Massey]

Are your quail still running Kev.:D

Omelette lee

[MattSpar]

Quail are particularly difficult to rear

No, you're quite wrong.

[MattSpar]

I have a thread on here showing it's perfectly possible and practical to produce one's own quail if done right.

[MattSpar]

http://www.falconryforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8210

[Shaun Byrne]

http://www.falconryforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8210

Worked for me:supz:

[MattSpar]

Worked for me:supz:

Thanks H. Nice to know someone found it useful.

[Shaun Byrne]

Thanks H. Nice to know someone found it useful.

Followed it pretty much to the letter Matt. Tried with 2 dozen eggs for a start in a Maino incubator, run dry and had 19 live chicks out of the 24.

[Puddle]

I breed quial chaps,Bob whites,Japanse and chinese painted hay FINNISH you think your japs are small get some chinese painted mate they are smaller than bumble bees. yappy little things they normal stop making a noise if you ask them to stop nicely:lol:
the humidity in your incubator wants to be between 55-60%
stop turning the eggs two/four days before hatch date with a temperture of 37.2 then wack your humidity up to 70-80% with my golden pheasants i put it up to 90%
anyway GOOD LUCK :rolleyes:

[Chris S]

hi lee i breed my own its easy cheap you just need a system that works for you m8 i do about 100 a month will try and put some pics of my set up all i have is a 3 hutches 1 brooder 1 incubator and a hatcher.
fill the octogen 20 up you can get about 70-80eggs in one of these at a push run them dry on the auto cradle for 14 days then i put them in a still air hatcher with high humidity and what ever you do dont open the lid i wait from when the first one hatches untill 48 hours later then open it and move them to the brooder you should get around 50 hatch i use wood shavings stops the leg splaying so you should be doing this two times a month.
i only keep 10 hens and two cocks for breeding the rest are killed and fed fresh or frozen.

[World.Hunters]

just read the PDF top class pal

how much did it cost for ur set up including everythink???

[Finnish]

Just had a quick look in the incubator. Four eggs have pipped.:supz:

[Matthew Symons]

It seem's very strange just looked in the incubator and not one of the eggs has pipped.
hi m8, i dont know if this is going to be of much use to you, but ! ill give it a go. are all the eggs that you have purchased been laid on the same day? if so some eggs develope more slowly than others. a lot of things need to be taken into concideration ie humidy, daylight hours etc.

Give us more info on were you got the eggs from m8. Even if all the eggs were laid on the same day the chances are that not all the are gonna hatch on the same day. Believe me m8 in the past ive bred loads of different types of birds from budgies to african greys.
hope this helps m8 and dont be disheartend.

[Matthew Symons]

No, you're quite wrong.
here here i agree well said

[MikeGyr]

what do you feed baby quail lol

[Chris S]

what do you feed baby quail lol
chick crumb m8 about £6 for 25kg sack

[MikeGyr]

lol thanks

[Puddle]

what do you feed baby quail lol

chick crumb, I put it in to a blender for about 10 seconds so there is a bit of dust just depends on the size of it

[Moses]

I put the eggs in on the 23/05/2006. So this morning I stopped the cradle from moving. And noticed that one egg has pipped. So pulled it out and had a little listen and could hear a little squeak. Put the egg back in took the dog for a walk come back and there was my first little quail.


mate i did the same, they were like my wee kids coz i bred them so couldnt kill them so gave them to a friend, i got no probs killing my friends quails and eating them though :D

[Chris S]

another thing i found a problem was the little ******s drowning so i use rabbit water bottles for all my quail just show the chicks where it is and they soon master it so then they have fresh clean water all the time

[MattSpar]

just read the PDF top class pal

how much did it cost for ur set up including everythink???


All my battery cages were home made. Nothing was expensive.

I should say here, poultry chick crumbs are NOT nutritious enough for quail.

As this has generated fresh interest, I advise anyone interested to read my article, as this is one of the few things I really do know something about.

http://www.falconryforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8210

[AmateurAustringer]

Steve this is just a made up box for the night mate the quail are going to a friend who has a propper brodder.:D

"Good do!" :supz:

[Shaun Byrne]

what do you feed baby quail lol

Harris',Peres and Saker....why?:lol:

[Heike]

You need to feed turkey starter crumbs, which are 30% protein,
Chick crumb is only 18% protein and fed on this, young quail will be a full 2 weeks behind in development after approx 4 weeks

If you want quick growth it needs to be turkey starter or game feed and get as near 30% protein as possible and you wont beleive the diffrence in growth rate.

Works well for me

Cheers Heike

[RedNoseK9]

ah and i thought you were firing blanks nice one mate good practice

[Finnish]

17 out of 24 at the mo.:supz:

[Finnish]

2 more at pip:D

[Big JoeJoe]

Lee you are doing good mate. When they get a bit older put a lid om your box as one of mine got out of the box today and came to an end as a play thing for the pup which was nit a very nice ending

[NightOwl]

got 12 bob white and 12 japanese in my brinsea at present.
fingers crossed.

[Finnish]

2 more out this morning...:D

[Puddle]

2 more out this morning...:D

any sleepless nights yet :lol:

[Finnish]

Lee you are doing good mate. When they get a bit older put a lid om your box as one of mine got out of the box today and came to an end as a play thing for the pup which was nit a very nice ending

I have got saw dust in the box now and food trays and a drinker. But they will all be going tomorrow Joe. To a friend who has all the correct equipment. Cheers for the advice tho mate..;-)

[Finnish]

any sleepless nights yet :lol:


Not really mate been on the sauce the last two night's so slept like a log...:D I will no tonight tho.:lol:

[Finnish]

One more out.... I think thats the lot now but i'll let the incubator just run one more day.. No bad tho for a first time hey..:D

[Finnish]

Last two pic's. There going as we speak.:D

[Kevin Massey]

lee seems like you had some quality eggs there:supz:

Who did you get them off? and are they the large bob whites?

[Finnish]

Ian from South West Quail mate. Not bob whites. They were a gift so beggers can't be chooser's....:D My first incubator first Quail. Breed two Hh this year well proud...:supz:

[Natch]

sicko:supz: