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    what colour are these chicks going to be?

    this mornings cage clean & health check, had to re-boot my one curle toe, tape came off.
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    what colour are these chicks going to be?

    thanx. I was hoping for a tuxedo, I think there are 2. I also think a couple are Tibetan, must be my Tibetan's eggs :)
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    what colour are these chicks going to be?

    I have a white male Texas A&M, 4 regular brown gals, & one Tibetan with red (Rosseta?) girl. We just hatched 8 chicks last night. 3 I'm confident are regular browns but the others I'm excited to discover. My fav is a little golden belly chick with dark stripe on face & dark back (Tuxedo?)...
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    Puffed up Agressive Coturnix

    we have a male, he's made half the girls bald
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    Puffed up Agressive Coturnix

    I have 6 coturnix, all about 8 weeks old, 1 male, 5 female.One of my girls a week ago decided to start mounting the other girls (yes it's a girl & egg laying). I believe she is also responsible for plucking the feathers off the front neck area of most of the other girls. I noticed a few days...
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    5 day old Coturnix no feathers

    P.S. I have them on organic feed so don't really want to add supplements/additives, but as I mentioned Legs is doing well & I haven't actually lowered the heat at all as I broke my lower watt bulb & no one is trying to get away from too much heat
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    5 day old Coturnix no feathers

    Legs runs/jumps fine, is even more energetic than some of the others. Everyone else it twice as big but at least Legs' feathers are coming in now, just seems like s/he has no tail, rather funny looking but seams to be doing well & is happy as a bird can be.
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    5 day old Coturnix no feathers

    they are all doing great except Legs who is still pretty close to birth size except his legs & feet but he is at least starting to get a few tiny scraggly wing feathers in. Ours are pets too. If Legs survives I hope its actually a girl so no chance of passing on bad genes. I assume if it is a...
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    5 day old Coturnix no feathers

    my 2 & 5 yr old hatched them out so I'd rather do what we can do & if it doesn't make it, that's another life lesson.
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    5 day old Coturnix no feathers

    I have 9 baby quail 5/6 days old. Everyone is doubled in size & already have their wing feathers mostly in (still covered in shafts) except 1 bird. I believe he was one of the last to hatch from a very small egg & the only egg in his row (closest to the heat source) to hatch. Basically the only...
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    Day 21 & still going

    well, put boots on him this morning. Took them off this evening to see how he was doing. His feet actually straightened & he was standing & getting about properly so I left him. About an hour later I found his dead :(
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    Day 21 & still going

    well down to 10 :( the last A&M who made it out on its own was stretched out this morning. As for Boots, I've finslly managed to get the taoe on but only had bandaids or scotch tape. The bandaids kepts slipping off while trying to get them on so he has scotch tape, will this be an issue, do his...
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    Day 21 & still going

    thanx everyone. apparently the only time in the 3 days that hatching has gone on apparently the 30 min. we took to go to our pool there was a temp spike. Last two with their beaks out perished but I saved the one who had started zipping though he has curled toes (attempting to fix that one if...
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    Day 21 & still going

    My second attempt at hatching (first attempt got only 1 chick). Mix of regular & A&Ms in a home made incubator. They've been coming out since day 18, some needed assistance (membrane just wouldn't break after full zip & fighting for an hour or 2 (lost one because my toddler kept screaming from...
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    OK to mate Texas A&M & Japanese Coturnix?

    thanks for all the awesome info! I figured we'd settle on 6 gals & 1 boy & the rest can go one craigslist. Being very urban I know there's a lot of people in my area wanting them. They too might be sent off at end of season if we can't winter them on our deck & we'll start fresh in the spring...
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