ANIMAL HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY SERVICES (AHFSS)
1220 N Street, Sacramento, California 95814 • 916-900-5000 • Fax: 916-900-5332
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/
Is the official state agency in california.
Here is the CALIFORNIA FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL CODE; however it's really complicated and...
At this point we are producing a lot more eggs then we are selling as hatching eggs, so I'm enjoying them in a bowl of Pasta.
As a professional chef, we are doing some R&D in regards to producing food products containing quail eggs in a "Cottage Home" kitchen. The California Homemade Food Act...
Q1)Our research goal is to develop a new strain: A jumbo sized coturnix quail that lays a blue biliverdin pigmented egg, when the chicks are hatched male and female will display sex-linked coloration making it easy to identify blue egg laying hens.
Q2) Our team committed to this project on...
Why do birds even lay blue eggs? Is a question we must explore first before we even try to isolate the Coturnix Quail Blue Egg Phenotype!
Moreno & Osorno (2003) have recently suggested that blue egg colouring may have been selected by male birds, The theory depends on a key assumption : that...
We Just Got NPIP Certification!!! California Participant #93-430
We had to update our standards to reflect the state of our breeding project. We noticed that some of the larger eggs (16+ grams) had poor hatch rates so we reduced the standard to 13 grams and are having much better hatch rates...
I set 138 mixed Coturnix quail eggs consisting of Texas A&M and Japanese strains on Sunday June 29th 2014. Yesterday the first day of the hatch I got 10 chicks, today when i got home from work I was delighted to see 29 more quails that hatched for a total of 39 chicks so far. I am going wait a...