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Only a few ounces of water per baby quail is needed, but you want to refresh it regularly to keep it clean. A 50lb bag ran about $20 and lasted a very long time. I picked up mine at Tractor Supply and just got the highest protein content I could find for the first 8 weeks. The main producer of this is Purina and is available at any farm supply store. Quail feed comes in crumbles called Game Bird Chow, which is a high protein between 19%-30%, for baby quail food you want at least 25% to let them grow.

Baby quail how to#

You can read my post about how to set up a brooder for chickens, it’s mostly the same for quail. Quail are pretty much like chicks, you want to make sure they’re fed, watered and warm.

Baby quail for free#

The guy I bought my first round from threw in a dozen eggs for free so I tried it out. I raised my quail from both hatchlings and from eggs. I even put a piece of wood in there with some bedding to see if they preferred it, they actually avoided the wood. Over time I checked their feet and observed their behavior. When I built my quail cage hutch I did it with the hardware metal cloth with ¼ inch gaps, I’m glad I did. I talked to a lot of people who’ve done it before and they all raised on wire too. Like my above point, when I heard about raising quail on ¼ inch wire hardware cloth I was worried that their feet might get cut up. They’re small birds and they like to huddle together and are pretty sedentary animals. Well now that I’ve worked with quail, a square foot really is a lot of room for a quail. When I first heard this I was very skeptical because one of the reasons I raise my own food is to make sure it’s done humanely. How many square feet per bird? You only need 1 square foot of cage per bird. They don’t eat or drink a ton, they’re cold hardy, and they can be raised on wire mesh so the dropping falls out, literally cleaning the cage on its own. When I raised my chickens, I thought they were easy, I setup my feeders and waterers and on busy days at work, I didn’t have to worry. I’m still amazed at how hands-off quail really are, they are super easy to raise. They barley make any chirping noises and that chirp doesn’t carry far at all. When I set mine up, most people didn’t know they were there even when they walked right by them. This is really good for raising quail in a city or in a small backyard. While chickens are pretty quiet, except for a rooster, quail make almost no noise at all, even when startled. One thing that I really love about my quail is how quiet they are. So quail are great if you want to get eggs sooner rather than later. One of the biggest draws for me with quail is that from hatch to first egg is around 6 weeks! Compart that to chickens which don’t lay their first egg until their 6th month! This is a really big deal because you need to feed them during this lead up period and you’re spending money and time with no eggs in return. I also found them to lay more in the winter unlike chickens that slow down in the winter some. While a chicken will lay around 200 eggs a year, quail will often lay upwards of 300 a year. While their eggs are smaller, you get a lot more. Quail lay more eggs per bird than chickens do. Here are a few of the main highlights of why quail are so easy! Quail Are Prolific Egg Layers In short, quail are quiet, easy raise with minimal space requirement, they produce a lot of eggs and require little cleaning. Now that I’m over 2 years in Quail I’ve come to appreciate how easy quail are. In my journey to grow my own food, I knew I had to design everything to minimize the work I put in while maximizing what I get out.

While I was learning about chickens, I also learned of quail which have a few unique attributes that really appealed to me. Many of you might remember this past summer when I got my chickens, soon after I discovered quail was another way I could keep my food local. Many of you know that three years ago, I set a goal for myself to start growing most of my own food. Now that I’ve learned a lot, I thought I’d share how to take care of baby quail and how to raise quail. The past two years I have been trying my hand at raising baby quail for eggs.

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