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    What can cause a proven breeder trio's chicks to change color?

    I totally understand throwback but the mystery is why in just 2 weeks the entire hatching changed phenotypically ? I am entertaining the thought that the cock was only breeding one hen then decided to swap up :) The next few hatchings will rule out error by egg gatherer which would have to be...
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    What can cause a proven breeder trio's chicks to change color?

    It is weird though that they changed 100% in just a few weeks. There are none showing the old hatch's traits at all. I would think that using the punnett square that there would be some of the older hatch's coloration along with a different one perhaps but not 100% different. This hatching was...
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    What can cause a proven breeder trio's chicks to change color?

    I am hoping that is the reason as we do not know the history of the birds and are dealing mainly with phenotype s. Yes we definitely have clutches that are mainly or all one sex during the year from other birds. We have hatched about 30 in 3 hatchings so far. I am just wondering if temperature...
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    Help ! Why do the chicks from a trio suddenly start throwing off color chicks?

    I am sorry for this post as it was already posted but page asked me to edit title and it reposted again! ADMIN can please delete!
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    Help ! Why do the chicks from a trio suddenly start throwing off color chicks?

    We have been breeding a new serama line for a while now. We crossed the black cock with a scant scattering of red feathers in his hackles and saddle over an all black hen w/white earlobes and got stags with more colored feathers in hackle and saddle than cock and pullets all dull black with no...
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    What can cause a proven breeder trio's chicks to change color?

    We have been breeding a new serama line for a while now. We crossed the black cock with a scant scattering of red feathers in his hackles and saddle over an all black hen w/white earlobes and got stags with more colored feathers in hackle and saddle than cock and pullets all dull black with no...
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    Brooding quail and lighting

    Sometimes nature gives you lemons. In my case where I work on call 24/7/365 1/4...... Nature seldom gives me lemons :) Here are current weather conditions in Port Lavaca, Texas.
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    Brooding quail and lighting

    We had a little hatch today. Also have hurricane Harvey baring down on us.
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    Brooding quail and lighting

    UPDATE 8-23-17: First hatch chart. We lost.,... yes I mean actually lost one bird this week! No earthly idea what happened to it! We are installing a game camera to find the culprit. It has to be a snake or a rat????? We missed weighing them yesterday and the week 4 "brown" weights include only...
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    What variety is this quail?

    They were born on 7/30/17 so about 3 weeks tomorrow. We so seldom hear a crow but are not early risers either :) Thaks for the info and I will look at that page now
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    What variety is this quail?

    Hi, We hatched a set of eggs that contained jumbo pharoah and Texas A&M and got this little fella. Not sure wht he is but is different than the rest. Do you see any males in this video?
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    Brooding quail and lighting

    8-15 update for first hatch: Whites are 3.10 ounce at 17 dys and jumbos are 3.74 ounces same date born.. We moved them onto 1x1/2" wire 2 days ago and they are going outside tomorrow! Here is a better chart as it does not show the total bird weight in case we do have a mortality: Weird tho...
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    Rooster has poop stuck on his bottom

    I fixed the post. I was not paying attention. Thanks for noticing
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    Brooding quail and lighting

    I digested the article!~ Thanks a million.
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    Rooster has poop stuck on his bottom

    It definitely has to be removed. Try warm mineral OIL. We had that happen to mostly chicks. I am assuming the results would be the same if not corrected. Eventually the poop can back up and cause infection through irritation and from rotting feces back into the rectum. Most will recover if...
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