Posts by TonysChickens

I've already done business with him. Looking to see if I want to get more now :)

Hey this is great. keep up the weight logs. I was checking JMF's site recently and saw these same in the eggs section but not showing in the image gallery. I was wondering about them too. When I talked to JMF last year, they mentioned...

Final count is 32 out of 34 hatched, 2 died in the shell without pipping. 1 also died a day after the hatch. It seems it was stuck to the shell for a while and the belly never closed up over the yolk completely.    On...

Got 32 out of the incubator so far, 2 more no pips left.

I got 34 that went into lockdown monday night. Its hatching as I type now. At least one is zipping and 7 more pips. All cots, mix of browns and hopefully italians ( italian with a brown male and an italian male)

In two weeks (which is about how old my quails are now) they start showing the rust color features on the chest for males already. I think at this point, its very safe to bet the rust coloring are males. 

Thats all I use for my quails. I use the push in type though.

My coturnix gets 20% protein purina gamebird breeder/layer. They start with the 30% starter, and after 6 weeks in, I switch to the breeder. They work quite well. The 30% gives me eggs inconsistently, and double yolkers often, as well...

I recently kicked my 15 day old coturnix to the outside coop. They're fine. they huddle up at night and are moving about during the day. I think our nights are in the low 60s right now. I put them in two groups of about 10 each....

96.5g average of the larger 13. highs were 106, , 105, 101, 104. put all of the under 95g into the smaller group now so i have...