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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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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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Wow so he died with it that warm huh? Crazy. Is the mom in the same enclosure with them? Could she have saved him in the wild by helping him preen his feathers?