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I have read about people using bantums to hatch quail. Maybe someday

I will go dig it out and get back to you. That's great to know!

What model is it? I do dry hatches and don't add water until lockdown. Then I fill up all the water and let it go. I had to put a...

I'll do that. Maybe grab some trial eggs from the coop just to see if I can get anything to hatch. It doesn't have instructions so it's...

Get that little piece of gold out of the barn!!!!

Aggression can appear in any rabbit of any breed, for a multitude of possible reasons. The New Zealand is a breed that has been heavily...

I have an old one that I have never used in the barn still in the box. Got on clearance when a local feed store closed. I haven't tried...

I don't mist eggs, in fact I go to some lengths to make sure eggs never get wet. During storage or incubation, moisture on the shell...

I let the chicks stay in the incubator for 24 hours then move them to the brooder. Lightly mist the remaining eggs with hot water in a...

Good to know that I should hold on for ~48 hours after the first one has hatched. Judging by the size of the eggs in the incubator and...

Yes, that's what we've found - the quail most often raised for meat and eggs, coturnix (coturnix is Latin for quail, so I don't call...

Everything I've read claims coturnix have been domesticated so long they seldom hatch their own. I wondered if it was because many are...

That is the incubator I've been looking at. I have been seeing not so great reviews lately so I haven't bought one yet.

I agree with eating it all! I cook the entire bird and we gnaw away. I maybe have just been lucky with hatching...i have a nurture...

That's good to know. I didn't know that. Guess I have to learn how to incubate finally. Or teach my chicken hens to raise them. Wouldn't...