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Enter the covey size, the quail age and the season. The calculator starts from a daily drinking figure per bird, adjusts it for heat, and scales it to the covey per day and per week, plus nipple drinkers at 1 per 5 birds. Results are planning estimates, not veterinary advice.
An adult quail drinks about 0.06 litres (60 ml) per day in this calculator, a grower about 0.05 litres and a chick about 0.03 litres. Heat lifts intake: the hot factor is 1.25, cool is 0.9 and moderate is 1.0. Twenty adults at moderate temperature need 60.00 ml each, 1.20 litres per day and 8.40 litres per week, with 4 drinkers. Use this quail waterer guide for flock water per week, and size the waterer from the weekly flock total.
Chicks need shallow waterers with pebbles or marbles so they cannot drown, and constant access to water with feed. Growers drink more as they grow and as laying starts, and adults on dry feed drink more than adults on fresh greens. Check waterers daily, because a failed drinker in a stacked cage system can dehydrate a whole section fast.
Hot weather lifts water intake sharply in small birds, because they lose heat through panting and droppings. Laying quail also drink more, since each egg is mostly water. Keep water clean, cool and shaded, and flush lines in hot weather, because warm, dirty water spreads disease and cuts laying.
Fifty growers in hot weather need 62.50 ml each, 3.13 litres per day and 21.88 litres per week, with 10 drinkers. Use nipple drinkers for adults at 1 per 5 birds, keep a spare drinker in each section, and count actual use for a week to replace these planning figures with your own covey figures.
An adult quail drinks about 60 ml per day in this calculator, a grower about 50 ml and a chick about 30 ml, more in heat.
Twenty adults at moderate temperature need 1.20 litres per day and 8.40 litres per week, with 4 drinkers.
About 1 nipple drinker per 5 adult quail, with a spare drinker in each section as insurance.
Yes, chicks can drown in deep waterers. Use shallow waterers with pebbles or marbles for the first weeks.
Yes, hot weather lifts intake by about 25 percent in this calculator. Keep water shaded, clean and always available in summer.
Yes, laying birds drink more because eggs are mostly water and laying lifts overall demand.
Daily, and more often in heat. Clean drinkers weekly and flush lines to prevent biofilm and disease.
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