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    Are they dead?

    So we got a dozen fertile eggs from a local farm. No idea what kinds. Mostly brown eggs, a couple green and cream ones. Today was day 21, about 5 hours ago. Only 8 eggs made it to lockdown. 1 wasn’t fertile. 2 smelled bad at about day 10. And 1 had weird goo seeping out of it and looked like a...
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    SO many fully developed quail chicks not hatching

    I've run 5 batches of eggs. My first batch hatched just fine but I was opening it quickly 3x per day to roll the second batch which was a week behind. The second batch had a much lower hatch rate and only 3/24 chicks survived. Once those were full sized I got a second batch of eggs from the...
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    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    I haven't seen what took out my flock or quail but I am guessing it was coons. First it took out 3. Ripped them right through the wires. So we covered them at night. That night we lost 2 more. I guess they used team work and one held the outer cover while the other moved the inner cover and...
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    Christmas Quail

    So I had the marvelous idea to add a few Xmas tree branches to my quail hutch. I have (had) 8 in a rabbit hutch that are 3-4 weeks old. They loved it for the first day. The next morning one was dead. This morning they didn't get all excited to see me and 2 were acting drunk. So far 3 have died...
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