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vent white diarrhea in raising all wild 

 birds. After ten days the young quail 

 will chop their own lettuce and will live 

 almost on that alone. 



In hatching quail in an incubator, run 

 your heat at about 102° F., and when 

 you transfer them to the brooder at the 

 start you should add some heat for the 

 first week as the little birds must be 

 kept good and warm for the first few 

 days. 



A quail hatched either by a hen or 



Fig. 1 — Cover to all runs. One of them 

 fits the 4-foot run. Two of them, end to end, 

 make the cover of the 8-foot run. They are 

 fastened on by boring holes through cover 

 well down into the sides of the runs, and 

 dropping a nail into the hole to its head. 



tig. 2 — Two foot by 4 foot starting run, 

 made of J^-inch redwood, and is used when 

 the bantams first come off with the hatch, 

 until the small quail have a chance to get 

 away from a nervous hen. In two days they 

 are transferred to the 8-foot run. 



Fig. 3 — Is end view of small run. 



Fig. 4 — Two foot by 8-foot run, and un- 

 like the 4-foot run, which is 54 inch thick, 1 



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incubator does not have to be taught to 

 go into a brooder, for as soon as it sees 

 a hole in the brooder it will put itself 

 out of sight in the warm down. It may 

 have to be driven out a few times, but 

 you will have no trouble in making it 

 go in. 



After the young birds are well 

 feathered and one-fourth grown, trans- 

 fer your small brooder and quail to your 

 grassy rearing pen. Let them use it for 

 a short time and they soon will leave it 

 for the brushy roosting place with which 

 the run should be supplied. 



foot high, to allow the bantam to be with 

 her breed, is only 8 inches high, as the mother 

 is never allowed in this run. One end of this 

 run is made of ^ inch wire mesh, with a 

 door at one side, 4 inches wide and 5 inches 

 high, to fit with door in brooder, or coop. See 

 Fig. 4. 



Fig. 5 — Half inch wire end for 8-foot run. 

 All doors should be sliding so that quail can 

 be driven into run or brooder while you are 

 cleaning. 



Fig. 6 — Front view of brooder coop. 



Fig 7 — Coop for hen with slide bottom to 

 be used with 8-foot run, until you wish to 

 take away hen and substitute the brooder. 

 This will be according to the weather. Coop 

 must have a J/2-inch wire mesh front so that, 



