Posts by LyrebirdJacki

I've been breeding quails for about 4 years now (other poultry for a lot longer than that) and I've never had this issue. All of my quails will not lay, same goes for my chickens, which of course are in different enclosures. Not so...

Well with three long power outages during the last three days of incubation (terrible storms here) I got an extremely poor hatch, with only 9 healthy chicks (there was 12 but it's now down to 9) out of 38 eggs. All eggs had dead chicks...

Unfortuently in Australia we only get the standared bobwhites, you are so lucky to have a variety! Mexican speckles, so envious!   I personally love the snowflakes and the tennessee reds (I love the bourbon colour!).

Well space is no issue at all, so I've got all that covered. All your information is very helpful so I have it saved onto my computer to keep as notes incase I have any issues. I am really looking forward to my first hatch. So will all...

I have just got my first load of bobwhite eggs (from 2 different suppliers with multiple bloodlines) and have read up that they can be mightily violent. I've had problems with cannibalism/bullying with king/button quail and coturnix...

Didn't end up going for pheasants, got bobwhites instead for my avairy. But there is always another time and place for everything so it gives me time to research a little more before I try them.   I was concerned about noise...

They definatly do look similar, even the joint that fits into the frame looks the same (the zig-zag on the ends).   I currently have my bobwhite eggs pointy end down in the chicken racks (48 egg incubator for chickens, without...

Hello,   I own a JN8-48 semi-automatic incubator and it works wonderfully; a lot better than my first incubator being the covatutto 24 eco, which when I bought it never had the auto turner included even though it said it was...

Defiantly looks like the crele, but shaped more-so like the wyandotte. When I looked up belgian malines it only came up with dogs so I wouldn't know. We seem to mostly have the generic chickens such as isa browns, australorps, silkies...

  Sold to me under "wyandotte" at a petshop mixed in with frizzles as pullets. I'm not an expert with wyandottes (not a common breed where I am) but I have never seen a comb like that. It is also not much larger than a...