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I drug my feet preparing a better water container so that they wouldn't be able to get wet. This morning one of the white quail was laying over, cold and wet. I can only assume he jumped into the water and lost body heat until he died. I caught him at his last, tried to warm him up but it was too late.

This is what I made to try to prevent it. I am not sure they are pecking at it hard enough to get the water to come out even though it takes very little agitation to get it to drip water out.

https://pic8.co/sh/cccjYD.jpg

https://pic8.co/sh/OqKUzo.jpg

Tomorrow I'll be putting some hardware cloth over a feeder to keep them from scratching it out. If I don't see any success with this water dispenser, I'll do the same with the water.

I found a really great design for a four stack quail hutch and plan to build that as these guys get bigger.

So far their noises are very cute and they're fun to watch. They're not at all intimidated by anything, dogs or humans.

I drug my feet preparing a better water container so that they wouldn't be able to get wet. This morning one of the white quail was laying over, cold and wet. I can only assume he jumped into the water and lost body heat until he died. I caught him at his last, tried to warm him up but it was too late. This is what I made to try to prevent it. I am not sure they are pecking at it hard enough to get the water to come out even though it takes very little agitation to get it to drip water out. https://pic8.co/sh/cccjYD.jpg https://pic8.co/sh/OqKUzo.jpg Tomorrow I'll be putting some hardware cloth over a feeder to keep them from scratching it out. If I don't see any success with this water dispenser, I'll do the same with the water. I found a really great design for a four stack quail hutch and plan to build that as these guys get bigger. So far their noises are very cute and they're fun to watch. They're not at all intimidated by anything, dogs or humans.

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A low tech solution could be filling a shallow pan or poultry fount with pebbles or those little decorative glass stones.

They can get their beaks in but can't get really wet.

Downside: cleaning.

[–] • 2 pts

Ya I had considered that as well. I'm really hoping they'll figure out the waterer. In about an hour I'll check on them again and see if any of them have figured it out. Only need one to do it and the rest will realize what to do.

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I have no experience with quail but my limited experience with other birds has taught me that birds aren't very good at figuring.

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I am sorry for your loss. Be sure to eat its heart in order to gain its power.

[–] • 1 pt

You dont use a heat lamp bulb? Can get one for 5 or so $ from tractor supply or wherever.

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I have one, but they're three weeks old so I didn't think I needed it. :[

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Yeah :(

Lessons learned. The rocks in the water bowl the other guy mentioned is how I was taught to raise small birds. Works great.

Its as simple as cutting a pop or water bottle to a 2 or 3 inch size and filling it with stones.

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It isn't cold enough where you are for the water to freeze? Been in the low 20's (F) here for weeks. Birds are fragile, I know all too well by trying to help wild ones.

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They're in the house. And it was 74* today, hah.

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Did you bury him? Feed him to somebody (another animal)?

Poor little fella.

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He went into the compost pile. When they're little like this they compost really fast.

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Plant food works well too. Glad to hear he wasn't put into a landfill.

[–] • 1 pt

Awww, RIP little birdy. Seems like just yesterday that I saw his photo, frolicking with his siblings. The world seems empty without him.

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That is sad. Do the soda/water bottle cut off thing mate.

Have a rare chicken pepe as motivation. https://pic8.co/sh/7RVqxw.png

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Lol he's so cute and angry!

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Those poultry nipples will be fine. Give them a few hours with it, then poke each drinker to get a little water on it. Trust me, they'll sniff out the water. When the jug gets within a couple inches of the nipples, fill it back up. They'll really fight them to get water out when the pressure is low.

They don't look as old in this pic as they did in your first pic we talked about, but I'm very surprised one at this size died solely from getting wet while indoors. Odds are it was a little wimpy. My opinion, fwiw.

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I don't know if you saw the photo of him that I posted in the other comment, but I thought he looked a little "under the weather" because of how fluffed up he was and how soft his eyes looked. I wasn't sure though, because I haven't had quail, but I think perhaps the chicken and quail have very similar tendencies.

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They are similar to chickens.

After about the 10 day mark, they're usually survivors unless it's just a weak bird. I'm not surprised it was a white one.

Also, I'll get you a picture of a no-waste feeder. You have to contain the whole head. When they take a bite, they like to shake their heads around and toss feed. There are a lot of ok ones on youtube, but I think I have it mastered at this point. Zero feed makes it to the ground.

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https://pic8.co/sh/buqJ1R.jpg

I did this quickly, but it's raining so I didn't empty the bottom yet. No way to tell how much waste.