Marbles Quail Water

Clean and refill their water containers daily.

Marbles quail water.

I fed the button quail chicks gamebird starter. Put flat backed marbles in their water container to prevent drowning and make sure the feed container is low enough that they can reach it to eat. The water container needs to be easily accessible but also prevent the quail from drowning. Their cages should be washed down and dried poop cleaned up.

For smaller birds such as tiny bantams guinea keets quail and pheasants you might put marbles or clean gravel in the base for the first few days until the birds grow big enough not to fall into the water. Somewhere along the line we didn t catch on that our button quail couldn t just harden off and move outside like our chickens. For the first three days use a 100 watt bulb to help the chicks find feed and water. Clean up quail cages.

Quail poop should be cleaned out of the cage daily. Or you could opt to use a drown proof game chick waterer base. Use a waterer that is specifically made for quail chicks which will help prevent the baby chicks from drowning in a bowl or saucer or chicken waterer. Even with the quail sized screw on watering bases it s worth putting some small marbles or stones in there so that tiny quail chicks can t topple in.

Quail poop has ammonia in it and can become stinky. Young quail can drown in watering containers so consider putting a mesh over it or adding marbles to keep them from being able to be submerged in the water. We live on the west coast of canada and our temps don t goo. You may want to place clean marbles or gravel in the bottom of the water bowl for a week or two so that the chicks can get a drink without falling in or getting wet and cold.

Be sure to put marbles in your water bowls so the quail don t drown and keep food easy to reach for their tiny little legs. Make sure that the chicks cannot drown in the water container and have easy access to it. You can also buy a special quail water feeder at your local pet or bird store. An easy way to ensure that they don t drown is to put marbles in a shallow bowl with the water.

Most breeders will put marbles in the water container to prevent the quail from drowning. Provide quail with clean drinking water. Provide clean freshwater daily. To easily make a deeper water bowl shallower and safe for quail chicks put stones or marbles at the bottom of it.

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