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I do but I do not ship. Private message me if interested. I have 4 young hens right now that I can sell or I can hatch some for you.

Hi OP I am in Castro Valley CA if you are willing to come over and get couple. I have a bunch of 3 weeks old now. Private message me if interested.

Won't mess up anything, they'll hatch just fine if you keep humidity raised. It should be 70ish %, mine hovers between 70 and 80%. You are talking about quails, I assume this is your first hatch? One member here on the forum had an experiment to try to dry hatch the quail eggs under a table...

If an egg passes thru the hen too quick, it will not develop a color pattern. Stress most likely. Couple of my hens spill these out when an animal visits their coop at night.

It depends on what you supplement them with. If you give them a lot of seeds with omega-3 (flax for example), the eggs will taste a bit fishy. Try to figure out where your quails take all those omega-3s from :D

It looks like the eggs are set pointy tip up. They should be set with a flatter side on the top.

1. Bake something with them. Its a holiday season after all - gingerbread, cake, cookies, etc - and share with your family/neighbors. 2. Pickle quail eggs (bunch of recipes on this forum) 3. Feed extra eggs to quails - boil them, mash and give them to quails. They love them! Excellent protein...

Teaspoon per gallon of water.

I would try adding apple cider vinegar or probiotics to the water as well.

You probably looking on how to raise mealworms at home. https://www.thehappychickencoop.com/make-your-own-mealworm-farm/

Coturnix are pretty hardy and if acclimated right can handle up to -45 F in winter. They will need a good shelter that protects them from the wind and chills though.

If you want to add coturnix to existing bobwite flock - scrap that idea. You may have a slight chance if you raise them together, any other effort will be a waste of time.

It never becomes easier, sorry. I always turn my head to the side when I chop the heads off. The way you need to think is that you are doing this for husbandry and to maintain a healthy flock. Without our interventions, quails wouldn't be domesticated. We are playing by the flock's rules, not...

I'm in Castro Valley and have a couple adult females (not laying yet, 8 weeks old) that I can sell.

I mix sand with DE. Works great - quail love it.

I put tarp over the enclosure to partially block the sun. I'm sure you could experiment with different things to shade the cage.

You are slightly overthinking it :D I select the biggest roo (by weight) for breeding purposes and cull the rest. Any roo will be able to keep up with 6 hens no problem.

I was in a similar situation with the same number of birds but 2 roosters. I eventually left only one after being tired to separate them for healing purposes. The only choices that will work is to keep one or no roosters at all.

None. The guy that owns it is one of the few people in the market that actually knows what he is doing and has a goal for the birds. He is also NPIP certified.

Here is a description of Coccidiosis from "Coturnix Revolution" (a great book!): Two to six week old quail are more susceptible to coccidiosis than older ones since their immune systems are still new and older birds are more resistant. Coccidiosis is an internal parasite that affects the quail's...