Recent content by Acarter994

I just googled how to tell the difference between fertile/infertile yolks. All eggs have the little white dot but only the fertile ones will have a "bullseye" looking dot. I cracked open 4 of the white quails' eggs, none are fertile.

I stated above that we have put eggs from the white birds in the incubator and the only ones that don't hatch are the eggs from the white ones but all the eggs from the other birds hatch fine.

these are some of our "normal" coturnix lol

these are our females that wont mate with the males

these are the eggs from our other coturnix

Not sure if the pic will show up but these are from the white birds, I can tell the difference in their eggs from the others. We have put eggs in the incubator multiple times and the only ones that do not hatch are the ones that the white birds lay. I'm starting to wonder if these are a...

I use chick starter! Everyone suggested the gamebird feed but the price is crazy, and one day at the feed store I decided to put the chick starter bag and gamebird bag next to each other and compare ingredients/analysis...pretty much the same thing!

I see all of the other breeders on here that have had success breeding the white (a&m) coturnix with no problems, but mine don't mate! We had some males and females, the roos would crow but none would mate with the females, and none of my other colored coturnix males will even try to mate the...

Sorry I can't help but I wanted to add that I also sometimes come across dead adults for no reason at all! We use heat lamps and cover the coop with a tarp at night so they aren't cold. We feed regular chick crumbles (nonmedicated, not gamebird food either).