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    First time hatching quail eggs

    I want jumbo because of meat production. My breeder pen is 11 hens and 2 roosters, 5 of the hens are just starting to lay, right now I’m getting 11 eggs/day.
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    Meyers Hatchery

    I just received 12 pullets and 3 cockerels, “ speckled Sussex “ from Meyer hatchery, they all arrived alive and look very healthy, one did die after a couple of days. I hope mine aren’t all cockerels.
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    Spots on eggs

    I can’t see any problems from these pictures.
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    First time hatching quail eggs

    I had 15 of my eggs set, 11 hatched two more are trying. I was very happy with the fertility. Actually amazed.
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    Teach Me How To Raise Meat Birds

    We showed them at 6 weeks.
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    Smallish backyard and meat birds?

    You will get more bang for your buck raising Cornish x, because of feed conversion. I have been getting hatching eggs from different people, mostly dual purpose, I give the pullets to the people I get eggs from and grow out the cockerels to butcher, it takes them a lot longer to grow them out...
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    Teach Me How To Raise Meat Birds

    When we showed meat birds we would start with 50, feed one bag of high protein turkey starter, then finisher all over the way to the end. We made a wet feed we fed them daily, we had a special trough for that, and leave it in for a limited amount of time and then take it out. It’s important to...
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    First time hatching quail eggs

    Yes, some of mine are supposed to hatch in the next couple days, one is pipping now. Yes, Myshire is a first class operation, I even told them I would take eggs, but they are too far behind on orders, I even said I would wait until they got caught up. I’ll be ordering more in the future.
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    First time hatching quail eggs

    One of my eggs hatched so I have 24, 22 in the brooder and 2 in the incubator, Myshire is refunding me half of my money back because I didn’t hatch 50%, even though I told them I was satisfied, that’s a very honest organization.
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    Speckled Sussex

    My chicks arrived today from Meyer hatchery, they are healthy and very lively, I’m going to hydrate them for a couple of hours then give them some feed, they are drinking lots of water.
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    First time hatching quail eggs

    I had 23 hatch so far I have 15 of mine in another incubator that need a couple more days.
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    Speckled Sussex

    Thanks everyone. I’m sure I will like them.
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    Speckled Sussex

    For some reason I like the looks of this breed, so I ordered 15 chicks from Meyer hatchery, they should be here this week. Has anyone ever raised this breed? From what I understand they are a dual purpose breed, having a decent body size and a good egg layer.
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    First time hatching quail eggs

    All My All Myshire so far.
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    First time hatching quail eggs

    Another one just hatched 5 now. I’m amazed at how easy they are hatching.
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