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  1. Susan Skylark

    Peaches, what color art thee?

    Cinnamon have red eyes, I hatched one in some thieving otter shipped eggs, sold her because she was more delicate and I’m not interested in the color. I plan on breeding this bird to both figure out the color and because I love it but I also have an American pansy line I’d like to expand but I...
  2. Susan Skylark

    Set it and forget it hatch trial

    I candle excessively as well, also like to hand turn, just had a disastrous hatch with a broken autoturner, I know I don’t actually do anything but it makes me feel involved and theoretically more patient, you’d think this would get old but it never does!
  3. Susan Skylark

    Actual black Tibetan?

    I will disagree with you (just a bit) on the pied markings in quail, other species I quite agree, but from the birds I’ve personally bred and some remarks on the pipsnchicks website (best source of quail color genetics I’ve found) that isn’t quite the case. White in quail is connected to...
  4. Susan Skylark

    Can quail tolerate -40c?

    Birds do fine but water and eggs freeze quickly!
  5. Susan Skylark

    How to check turning function on unidentified incubator?

    I had a disaster hatch with that things brother, it seemed to be working but hatched 3/20 quail, 50% day 3-5 death loss, another couple late embryonic deaths and failure to hatch and another died in the brooder 12 hours post hatch. It maintained heat fine but the turner was a joke. If you...
  6. Susan Skylark

    Button chicks fighting? Cuddling? Normal behavior?

    Quail chicks are also little monsters, they'll drag each other around by toes or wings, play full contact football with a bit of feather or bedding, hilarious but sometimes a little disturbing to our more peaceful tendencies, just think of it as having a dozen little brothers!
  7. Susan Skylark

    Peaches, what color art thee?

    This is Peaches (5 weeks old), my son wanted Pineapple but that's a mouthful, I have no idea what color this is. EB base and I think some white but I'm still trying to figure out what this beige color is. The bird may carry Roux and or Fee as well. The mother was this color but never threw...
  8. Susan Skylark

    Actual black Tibetan?

    The black Tibetan (5 weeks old), indirect sunlight and real camera, background is black as well. Does carry white on chin and breast. From left to right: Black Tibetan, middle is TOF Black, and then whatever Peaches is (Ginger Fee EB?) but colors are accurate to life. For comparison I...
  9. Susan Skylark

    First time incubating

    Use external thermometers, never trust the incubator and check them often, adjust incubator temp accordingly. Make sure you know parameters for your species, what works for chickens won’t work for quail or pea fowl (temp is pretty consistent but incubation period is highly variable and humidity...
  10. Susan Skylark

    Color ID (& sex if possible) Coturnix

    The first bird is eb/white for sure, I’d say also roux with that reddish tinge in the pictures and you mention gray so maybe something like Andalusian which is silver/gray but allows the base color to show through, so a scarlet (eb/rough) Andalusian tuxedo? Gray color could also be silver or...
  11. Susan Skylark

    Actual black Tibetan?

    Black is sort of a weird color for coturnix, most birds referred to as black are Tibetans plus or minus the fee gene, maybe some lab birds with some funky genes or a bird out of thieving otter/SW game birds multi genetic phenotype line (not a single gene but multiple genes that produce a black...
  12. Susan Skylark

    Coturnix Quail Laid a Green Egg

    I know this is a ghost post but I do have to reply to some of the older theories! Unless your quail is laying copper coated eggs that then have years to oxidize this is not the problem, that much copper (a trace mineral!) in the system of anything is toxic, interesting theory but about as...
  13. Susan Skylark

    Set it and forget it hatch trial

    We have been home for 24 hours, house still standing, we’re day 12, temp steady, humidity 20% for both as water bottle didn’t supply water to the equipped incubator. Candled eggs, 1 cracked and dried out but had developed, 10 infertile (half out of a very young male so no surprise there!) and 2...
  14. Susan Skylark

    Fixing ruptured and detached air cells

    You can’t fix them but they can still hatch, prepare yourself for a lousy hatch (mine was 25% on similar eggs) and you might be surprised! Half my deaths were normal eggs and half my hatched eggs were saddled air cells. The whole batch was traumatized by rough handling, the air cells are just...
  15. Susan Skylark

    Fertilized chicks dying in the shell

    Look for egg stresors preincubation or during early incubation: greater than ten days old at start of incubation, heat or cold stress (a couple hours outside at below 40 or above 80 might be enough to cause issues), incubator temp spikes, turning issues are most common (and in other cases...
  16. Susan Skylark

    Baby coturnix hatched 2 days early

    Day 14 with a really warm incubator isn’t unheard of, I’ve had normal chicks hatch on day 15 with a 100F incubator. Sounds like wry neck or some other developmental issue, birds can survive but often grow slower and don’t compete well with normal birds (get bullied). There is a big difference...
  17. Susan Skylark

    Massive eggs from Teeny Hen

    There may be a hormonal issue or something goofy with the repro tract, if it is only one bird it is unlikely to be nutritional or toxin related, genetic issues usually show up right away, infection would be a weird cause. Some sort of developmental issue either with the hormone regulating cells...
  18. Susan Skylark

    UnAbsorbed Yoke? Possibly help please

    You can try tying a thread around the base of it, right next to the body, pull it tight as you can and secure with 2-3 square knots. Hopefully it dries up in a few days and it falls off. You’ll want to keep other chicks away so they don’t peck at/pull on it. Complications include hernia...
  19. Susan Skylark

    Is this the start of a blood ring?

    Blood rings form after embryonic death as blood vessels break down, so a live embryo rules out a blood ring, probably a clot or enlarged blood vessel or large massing of vessels, I would just keep an eye on it.
  20. Susan Skylark

    Would like some advice for Keet injury (graphic image and description warning)

    That is really bad, the bone is exposed and she’s lost a significant amount of skin, sepsis and osteomyelitis (bone infection) are likely in the next 72 hours. She needs to be on antibiotics asap if she’s going to have a chance but she will also lose a significant amount of heat, nutrients and...
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