So now you have your quail chicks and you will soon discover how quickly they grow (especially
Coturnix). The best tip I can give you: don't over crowd your chicks. You know they have plenty of fresh water & feed and their brooder temp is just right, but for some strange reason they keep piling/huddling together - they are over crowed! When we first started raising quail
we couldn't understand why after a week or so they would start piling up causing the ones on the bottom to die. We had everything right with our brooder which was about 2 ft wide x 6 ft long, plenty of room when they were a day old. They quickly grew and to them became overcrowded, I guess it natures way of population control. So either from the start, limit the number of chicks per brooder area or plan on splitting the number of chicks in your brooder each week.


Minimum Space Needed by Age of Quail: From The Cooperative Extension of MSU
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/poultry/pubs/bwqprod.htm#bro

1-10 Days
5-10 birds/ per sq. ft.

10 Days to 6 Weeks
1-2 birds/per sq. ft.

6 Week To 14 Weeks
1-2 birds/per sq. ft.

The above chart is referring to Bobwhite Quail which is a slower growing quail compared to the Jumbo Coturnix.

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