Hi,
My quail also love to eat perlite from my used pot soil, which is the soil they have in their pens. But they also love crushed oysters, eggshells etc... I don't know if it's bad for them, but I don't think it is good either. I haven't seen any specific effects.
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Hi everyone!
1 year later, I have improved my line. Now finally (almost) all my celadons are feather sexable, and eggsize is stable at 13/14g.
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Hi!
I'm testing a probable celadon male, and so far all his daughters (4) are laying normal blue celadon eggs, but then there is this exception... One lay eggs that are as blue as any celadon egg, but the spots are bigger than the normal small spots found on celadon eggs.
In the photo...
Nabiki, I agree not to keep aggressive birds... But do you take out of breeding the frightened females too? Those who are really scared of the males? I have a cage full of females who don't like males at all :-)...
Thanks!
A friend sent me some celadon eggs to hatch, and so far, at 5 weeks of age, all male are Tibetan-Tuxedo, and probably all hens are red.
Looks like sex-linked breeding to me?
Yes, he crows as a boy! I isolate one by one, and some crow early, others later, or never :-). This one was early.
Thank you for your thoughts! I think the other bird on the second photo could be his mother. The father was white with some hidden light silver. Let's see what happens!
Hi!
I have this gray coturnix male, 4 weeks now, with brown cheek just as the feather sexable types. The father is white, and mother cinnamon tuxedo (not feather sexable). Do you think it is just a coincidence he looks like a feather sexable bird? It would be great to breed him to maintain this...