QUAILOLOGY - LETTERS & CLIPPINGS. 55 



son; if you have lots of time to give to the little ones either of 

 the following ways will prove satisfactory. As soon as the 

 mother quail has finished laying, remove the eggs very care- 

 fully and put them under a small bantam hen, I think the co- 

 chin breed to be the best if you can get one not too large, as 

 they will cover the eggs much better than other varieties, but 

 what ever kind you use be sure that it is free from vermine. 



If you can run an incubator try hatching the eggs in this, 

 you will find it very interesting; After the eggs have hatched 

 and the little ones have been with the mother about twent-f our 

 hours, remove them to a small brooder, by this time they will 

 have learned to eat and you will find them very interesting 

 little pets. Quails that have been raised in a brooder are as 

 tame as little chicks, and you can handle them at will for they 

 have no mother to frighten them, while those raised by the 

 bantam hen are more timid, and will not as a general thing let 

 you touch them. Only as the last resort let the mother quail 

 raise her own young, for unless she is a very tame bird you will 

 not see very much of her little ones, and even then they will be 

 taught to fear you. 



I keep my young quail indoors the first week, then I remove 

 the brooder out-doors into a pen made as follows: Make a 

 frame out of some light stuff, four foot long, two foot wide and 

 one and a half foot high, use a four inch board around the bot- 

 tom, then fasten fine wire netting on one side and both ends; 

 make the top seperate and after covering it with wire netting, 

 fasten with hinges. On the side left open build the shelter; 

 make it four foot long, two foot deep, with a front one and one 

 half foot hgih and a back one foot high. Under this shelter 

 place your brooder; for the first two or three nights you will 

 have to put the little fellows in, but they will soon learn to 

 go in themselves whenever they get cold. Leave them in 

 this pen until they are one third grown, then put them in 

 the larger aviaries where they are to be kept. 



