Raise Button Quail: From Incubating Eggs, to Brooding Chicks, to Laying Adults
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- čas přidán 14. 07. 2022
- A complete how to get started guide in caring for Button Quail. From how to incubate them, to turning eggs, hatching them, temperatures to keep the chicks at, brood, cage enclosure you should use, their life cycle, when they start laying, waterer and food to use.
Temperatures:
* Incubation (Day 1-16): 100F , and 50% Humidity
* Incubation Lock-Down [No more turning] (Day17-19): 98.5F and 65% Humidity
* Hatched (Day 1-7): 90-95F
* Hatched (Day 8-14): 85-90F
* Hatched (Day 15-21): 80-85F
* Hatched (Day 22-28): 75-80F
* Hatched (Day 29-35): 70-75F
* No supplemental heat needed once they are adults
Supplies:
* Quail Waterer $8 (Chicks can drown in the bigger ones): amzn.to/3o4n3eu
* Heat Lamp $15: amzn.to/3RDGTL3
* Incubator $27: www.ebay.com/itm/363316792769
* Chick Feed $7: amzn.to/3Pb866n
* Meal Worms $15 (Treats): amzn.to/3aFcvPS
* Bedding/Wood-Shavings $7: amzn.to/3o4V527
* Thermometers/Hydrometers $13: amzn.to/3aLsQ5x
* Cage/(Just use Storage Container) $50: amzn.to/3O9Dqkr - Jak na to + styl
I began feeding the ganbol quail by my house after my daughter died. There were several chicks this summer. These birds saved my life! The button quail chicks are wonderful.
Yes they are so cute and amazingly small. Good luck with your flock!
I’m sorry for your loss 😔❤
So sorry for your loss. 😥😥😥💔🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾❤🩹❤ Animals are so wonderful for healing our hearts aren't they? I know the Creator made them just for us. They bring such joy, happiness, & encourage us when life gets rough.
Someone gave my son some button quail eggs and he was incubating them. One has hatched and we dont know what to do with them after they all hatch. Youtubing what to do. Do we just keep them like pets?
It's my first time hatching quails. I'm so glad I found your video because it includes the links to all the items needed as well as where to buy quail eggs! I didn't know you could buy them from ebay. Thanks!
Great good luck it is an awesome thing to do!
You can literally buy anything off ebay, chicken eggs too
This is so awesome! Thanks for sharing your experience on the internet. We are incubating some now and are excited to see if any hatch!
Aww they’re so cute 🥰
Yea they sre
They are too cute
They are, a lot of fun too!
You need to change that cardboard after every hatch. I noticed it has poop on it, which can cause problems. Everything needs to be sterilized and clean at each set up.
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When they’re hatched by mom there is plenty of poop and zero sterile surfaces. How is this different?
My chickens, ducks, and guineas all hatched happy, healthy clutches.
Awesome you trust the incubator thermometer? I’m excited to get this incubator and try it.
Yes I did have a tiny thermometer to verify inside and seemed to work well.
Hi from Katy Texas good video you sell the eggs
Sorry we do not anymore
Check ebay
Is the cage in the video their entire quarters? That’s in incredibly small for button quails. They need a much larger area and a lot of freedom to live a happy life.
No that just where they were in the beginning. Agreed they need a lot of space especially when they become mating adults.
Where did you find such a small watering bottle? Awesome video
Bought on Amazon and printed one.
@@Famvestor can you email me the file to print the waterer?
I ordered a batch of 20 eggs from Etsy and they are currently in the incubator. I was going to let a male and female from the batch but my husband said they can’t because they are siblings. I’m not sure if they are. My eggs are different colors. Can they mate or do I need to order a new batch.
how to teach the newly hatched quill to eat ,because i had experience hatching them using incubator but non of the survived because they didnt eat.
You have to poke at the food with your finger. Like your pecking.
How long do they need to be in an incubator or in a thermal-box after hatching?
I think just till the leaves dry out. Maybe 5 hours. Just make sure they have traction in there so their legs don’t splay.
Your button quails look way bigger than the ones I have. How much do your adult button quail weigh, and how much does a freshly laid egg weigh? I would like to compare to mine
Unfortunately we are in Japan for a year and so had to sell them.
They probably just look big from different camera angles.
My thoughts too. I don't belive these are true buttons due to their size.
I was under the assumption you needed 30 percent protein game bird crumble to keep them healthy, have you had any issues with the chick starter?
We always add in mealworms for extra protein.
Add abit off fishmeal easy
they need a water bowl , they wont drown if its shallow ,
Yes have to make it shallow.
You should not turn the eggs around themselves they should be turned to a different position if the incubator is manual I lay them flat in my manual incubator and sweep them with my hand from right to left and vise versa.
Yea it is better if they are turned on their side and not just spun around
Thanks for the tips!
I've never seen anyone turn eggs by spinning them. Did they hatch? With all poultry and pea fowl we turn them by putting big end up , small end up, big end up, small end up. and we start doing that as soon as we gather the eggs to incubate them.
Hmm yea most hatched. I kept looking into whether I turn them over or spin them and never got anything conclusive.
do you have a link to the heat pad you used once they were hatched?
Sorry Indo not. I think we picked it up at a garage sale.
I have Japanese quails, could you send me the link to buy good incubator with self rotating, the one you already have, if good .
Should be a link in the description.
How much do you sell the eggs for?? To New Bern NC
Curious where you got the waterer that has the grey mat around it looks like it keeps them from getting in the water
I designed and 3d printed it.
@@Famvestor do you sell them ?
would also like to know
One of the chick is developing splay legs. Hope just temporarily. Cute as a button!
Make sure the floor you have them on is not too slippery. I’ve heard putting them in a narrow cup or something might help with the splaying.
Do you have a link to the incubator you have ?
Should be in the description of the video.
I like the cage setup. Do you still have them and how many?
Sorry they were all given away.
@@Famvestor Why?
@@chickensquailandbirds5650 he said they went to Japan for a year or something
I want two tiny ones as pets 😢 but I have an inside-cat, and I dont think im able to give them a comfortable environment
Yea I don’t think they are compatible.
Can you tell us what incubator you used? You mentioned it was $25. Thanks!
Link should be in the description
The link no longer works@@Famvestor
Hi! If you still have fertilized eggs, id like to get some please! ❤
Sorry we sold them all before we moved to Japan…
1:37 the poor chick :(
Do you have the stl file avalable for the water dish? Thanks.
Yes I just made it publicly available on Tinkercad, you can download an stl version there. www.tinkercad.com/things/iDsWnOyTwlb
@@Famvestor coom thanks. What jar did you use? Thanks.
@@parrot340 sorry I’m not sure… it was a ball jar, wide mouth I think.
@@Famvestor How does the waterer work is it the same as the normal ones that you can buy?
I have the sa.e incubator the yellow top one! How have you found it?
I bought it off ebay
I mean have you found it good? I'm just cycling for eggs tomorrow
@@hannaparker5434 yea we had 8/10 hatch. Just make sure to stop turning 3 days before hatch, so around day 13/14.
I was going to take off the rails on day 15 is that too late?
@@hannaparker5434 I think 14 is probably better since 16 days is what they say is when they hatch I feel like our experience is more like 17.
I keep the eggs with the parents and they raise them and even feed them with their beak mouth to mouth 😊 the love cucumber 🥒!!
The adult quail incubate their own eggs?
@@Famvestor yes !! I wish I can give you the video, but I am not sorry on CZcams on how to share videos. But the male and the female, both incubate their eggs, and also feed them. The place where I purchased them originally the sellers were saying it is not common for them to do that but I believe that they just bring it up so fast they don’t really care to nurture them. I had mine for four years! Eventually they kept on having babies and I had to sell them. I now have a new couple, and they did the same thing. They took care of their own babies and fed them.
@@Famvestoryes in nature im pretty sure all birds incubate their eggs. Otherwise how would they hatch? You guys should try letting them raise a few chicks and see how they turn out
Where you guys from and do you ship?
Morris county Nj. Sorry don’t ship. But you can pick up from our home.
Hello John Alexander from Katy Texas see if you would sell some button quail eggs
How to tell if they male or female
I’m not an expert but you can look at genirals and tell. Also males have the white beard.
Are they dusty like chickens?
No, but dont put them to close to your children since the birds hunt down and can eat children whole.
i see no water ? they meant to have fresh water change twice a day , a quail will die after 24hrs with no water ,
Yea I 3d printed a custom shallow watered.
I’m surprised the medicated feed worked - usually that’s dangerous for such small birds
Yea we did hear that…
Yeah medicated feed is not good for button quail that small but that's for chickens so I think that's only about 18% protein button quail or smaller They need about 30% protein I use the game bird protein starter feed It's Purina . Though your feed should at least be 26%. I have 100% brooding rate and my first time hatching in an incubator I had 85% hatch rate also the incubation period is about 16 days not 20. Also it's extremely difficult to get a surrogate for button quail hatched in an incubator even if it's their own chick They will attack typically unless they incubated their own eggs recently and are brooding what they hatch themselves
how. can. I. can. buy. some. egg
Sorry we don’t have anymore. Search on eBay for them.
@FamVestor hi have button quails and if you like see a picture of them
Hi from Katy Texas see if you sell eggs @@tammyblount2525
You never put baby in a other cage with big quails when you breed in a machine
Hmm yea that makes sense!
The parents didnt connect because the babies had more of your scent than theirs! Soon after wear gloves to try and prevent
Good idea
I accidentally stepped on mine and yeah it died😞
Sorry to hear that, accident happen, we had a few drown...
Holy shit they are so small
yea they are like the size of a quarter.
Guess you turn them yourself. Also you will find same aggressive behavior when you introduce them to the adults as they form flock families. You also need to build an appropriate outside coop.
3d printer plastic will create micro plastics which is not good for them
Take a chill pill
@@CorneliaBlue Why?
Lol neither is drowning!!! 😂
I heard that one shouldnt feed medicated cause they can overdose
Thanks yea I’ve heard mixed things about it.
Bad audio.
Where?
If you hatch them the parents won’t take care of them????? You have to let the female sit to hatch them to take care of them that was common sense
Relax karen