Recent content by ArcticCuddlefish

We kept her isolated and this eventually resolved on its own. I never did figure out what it was. We DID keep getting bumblefoot problems though and found that there was a tiny stub of broken drill bit in one piece of wood in their enclosure. They all liked to walk on this wood. Removed that...

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRoPhJ7S/ Short compilation and details! One egg hatched 7 still cooking :D

Y'ALL THEY DID IT! I can't upload the video straight, but I'll make a thing and share it tomorrow!

I also have broody coturnix quail and have been specifically angling for hens that can hatch their own eggs :D It seemed more reasonable to share on this thread than start a new one. So we've been selecting for size, but more so for temperament in roos and hens alike. Once we had a girl who...

We sure are! We have a batch 7 days in, so as soon as that's done this goes in with a couple for company ^_^

If you click the images and then look in the bottom left corner, you can see the side-by-side to get a feel for how enormous this thing is.

Quail eggs. For size comparison, our normal small layer at 8 grams, and average egg at 11 grams, a Jumbo egg at 14 grams, and the behemoth at 22 grams. The poor hens in these posts 🥲

Got us a GIGANTIC coturnix quail egg today. I'm pretty sure this came from one of my older girls who is still only like 6 months. Left to right, the first egg is from our aptly named hen Tiny. So: Tiny - 8 grams Average egg: 11 grams Jumbo egg: 14 grams The Behemoth: 22 grams We've had one...

I live in Washington state, USA and have more quail eggs than I need. I wanna share with you some ideas I had for moving them and the the local regulations, and hopefully y'all with think of other places to send eggs I hadn't considered! First, the rules. As of writing summer 2022, it is...

Best of luck to you both! It extra sucked that the last full egg she ever laid was a healthy hard good egg, just encased in bad. Here's hoping yours is just figuring out her groove still <3

Re-update, the next day she got worse. Sometime during the early afternoon, Jumbo got herself a severely prolapse vent with a partial soft egg coming out at least 5 hours ahead of schedule. Between her ongoing egg struggles and the extent of the harm, the only humane choice was to cull her...

She got it out! We gave her a full Epsom bath over her vent, which involved a lot of her jumping to break out of the lidded bath - an overturned colander on a large flat-bottomed mixing bowl. Still no egg and the water was cooling, so we put her with her sisters and made a humid/warm setup for...

This is that cracked egg and previous post: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/a-curious-case-of-cracked-quail-egg-anecdote-not-emergency.1535924/ The next 5 or 6 eggs were slightly were weaker, then they started getting arguable a little stronger, but never a sound egg yet.

Edit: resolved, seems okay, photos below. TL;DR big quail lays big weak eggs. Didn't lay yesterday but had one in the chamber. Today the egg is bigger, but still very weak and still inside. I have a quail who is a hefty girl, easily 20% larger than the rest, and she lays some hefty eggs, but...

No real surprise, but Westley here didn't make it. He was actually holding his own weight firmly last night, working on balancing, and his legs were starting to get thicker and strong again. Today he developed another complication that, when coupled with his waning paralysis, made recovery...