I just got 14 bobwhite quail babies from my local farmers store and this is a new adventure for me I have raised turkeys chickens and ducks Quail is absolute new experience so I was curious there light absolutely drives me bonkers at night because they are you know close by and I like it to be dark can they have a red or purple light at night or do they need 40 watt to 75 watt until they are older they are two weeks old..
Thank you for sharing that video so quickly. Nice set up! How many quail do you have per pen and what is your pen size? What is you male to female ratio? Do you put males in the same pens? What type of food to you feed them when they are first born? Is that the same food you use when they are laying eggs for you? Sorry for all the questions.
Ask away. You'll find all of these questions answered in detail on the blog. Look around and if you don't see an answer you're looking for let me know. raisingquail.net/
I just bought 5 female adult quails and have a heat lamp on them now because they are kept outside in a rabbit hutch. should I only turn the light on for the 15 or 16 hours or keep it on all night. the reason I ask is because the temperature is below freezing and I feel that it's to cold for the bird and the water dish
Congrats on getting some birds! If you want your girls to lay eggs through the winter they will need 14-16 hours of light a day. For egg production, I have found that any white light source is fine. I use LED lighting and they lay all year like clockwork. Please do not leave the lights on 24/7. This stresses the birds out bigtime. Quail do just fine in cold weather as long as they are kept dry and are shielded from bad drafts. Were these birds kept in a heated environment before you bought them? If they were kept indoors or in a heated place before you bought them, I would gradually reduce the heat they get so they get used to the colder temps. Just place the heat lamp a little further away every few days. If you need to keep the heat lamp on all night for a while until they acclimate to the colder temps, that's fine. Just don't do it permanently or the constant light will be bad for them. To prevent the watering dish from freezing you can use a heated waterer like this: amzn.to/2hlu87q or a heated base like this: amzn.to/2hiBHhr
Glad I saw this. I was leaving a 75 watt bulb on 24 hours for a few days. That light gave me a headache. Switching to a 40 watt 15 - 16 hours a day.
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I just got 14 bobwhite quail babies from my local farmers store and this is a new adventure for me I have raised turkeys chickens and ducks Quail is absolute new experience so I was curious there light absolutely drives me bonkers at night because they are you know close by and I like it to be dark can they have a red or purple light at night or do they need 40 watt to 75 watt until they are older they are two weeks old..
Thank you for sharing that video so quickly. Nice set up!
How many quail do you have per pen and what is your pen size? What is you male to female ratio? Do you put males in the same pens? What type of food to you feed them when they are first born? Is that the same food you use when they are laying eggs for you? Sorry for all the questions.
Ask away. You'll find all of these questions answered in detail on the blog. Look around and if you don't see an answer you're looking for let me know. raisingquail.net/
Where did you get your timer?
Do you think it would work with a Solar panel?
I just bought 5 female adult quails and have a heat lamp on them now because they are kept outside in a rabbit hutch. should I only turn the light on for the 15 or 16 hours or keep it on all night. the reason I ask is because the temperature is below freezing and I feel that it's to cold for the bird and the water dish
Congrats on getting some birds! If you want your girls to lay eggs through the winter they will need 14-16 hours of light a day. For egg production, I have found that any white light source is fine. I use LED lighting and they lay all year like clockwork. Please do not leave the lights on 24/7. This stresses the birds out bigtime.
Quail do just fine in cold weather as long as they are kept dry and are shielded from bad drafts. Were these birds kept in a heated environment before you bought them? If they were kept indoors or in a heated place before you bought them, I would gradually reduce the heat they get so they get used to the colder temps. Just place the heat lamp a little further away every few days. If you need to keep the heat lamp on all night for a while until they acclimate to the colder temps, that's fine. Just don't do it permanently or the constant light will be bad for them.
To prevent the watering dish from freezing you can use a heated waterer like this: amzn.to/2hlu87q or a heated base like this: amzn.to/2hiBHhr