Ok, so I have a beautiful buff Orpington rooster. I also have three Rhode Island Red hens, 2 Delaware hens, an Easter egger hen that lays blue eggs, a barred rock, and of course, a buff Orpington hen!
I also have 3 teenagers. They are a red star, a black star, and a buff Orpington!!!!
I set a...
Well, its the end of day 18 and i just put 19 chicken eggs on lockdown. i also put 8 coturnix quail eggs in a few days after the chicken eggs so they would hatch at the same time. today is day 18 for the chicken eggs and day 15 for the quail eggs.
anyone else just put eggs on lockdown????
yepp... the are brown coturnix; and the ones with the speckled breasts are females but the ones with the rusty colored breasts are males.
Nice pen!!!!!!!
is it hard to find the eggsin all that tall grass??????
i have 4 coturnix quail(3 hens and a rooster) when they wer about 5 weeks i looked into their small pen and there was 3 eggs. a few days later i moved them to a new pen and got about 6 more eggs, since then i added a red light that stays on continuosly. they just stopped laying about 4 days ago...
thanks. and i got it set perfect, i didnt have to move the light bulb, i had to adjust the thermostat just a little bit.
do u know how long i should wait before putting the coturnix quail eggs in there????
well, i have 19 chicken eggs and 9 quail eggs. i just put the chicken eggs in the incubator tonight. and i was wondering how long should i wait before setting the quail eggs in there.
also i made an incubator out of an ice chest- it has a hot water heater thermostat which is hooked up to a...