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i have currently had no luck in my button quails hatching their eggs so i have put 4 eggs in a budgie nestbox with one of my females. She has been laying on the 4 eggs for a whole now & i think that they are just about ready to hatch that is if they are fertile. What should i use to put the young in once they hatch? i have read on websites that you can put them in cardboard boxes with a lamp is this correct? also what should i feed them once they hatch is it alright to feed them worms as soon as they hatch. Please only answer if you seriosuly know & have done this before. cheers

2006-11-09 18:37:07 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets Birds

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Button quail need a brooder box with heating of some sort to bring the temperature up to about 30C for the first two weeks then this can gradually be reduiced to around five weeks when the can survive at room temperatures. Feeding should be with starter crumb for poultry or quail crumb if this available. Water dishes need to be shallow because drowning is a danger for such small birds.I have just had 30 eggs in an incubator fro Ebay. They wre sent through the post and I only had 4 hatch. We lost power one night for three hours and lost three of the chicks so at the moment I have one 1 week old chick left.
Good luck

2006-11-10 03:33:19 · answer #1 · answered by stevehart53 6 · 0 0

As a final motel and in basic terms after the 'knocking' noise diminishes take a needle and %. the eggshells to weaken them and don't co too deep or the chick will hemorage to dying.Their blood is interior the membrane merely below the shell to get greater oxygen into their blood.The blood retreats interior the babys physique through fact the lungs initiate operation. %. very carefuly and there's a bare possibility of saving a number of them.

2016-11-23 13:49:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

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