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malformed chick
Hatched my 12th batch lastnight. Had one chick who was malformed. Have hatched plenty from that combination of male and female but this takes the cake. I put it to sleep. But I was surprised when this popped out of an egg. Poor little darling. It was so determined to get out of that egg, too. -
silver / golden coturnix mixes?
Hi all I noticed that this chick has different feather markings than its hatchmates and is also a lighter dilution Hatchmates have normal banding: I very much love the different banding this mating produced. The dad is who he got these markings from. Sorry he is a total pain to get... -
chicks that feather in to completely different colours (japs)
Very irritating when you hatch chicks and they feather in, and are such a lovely colour, then they grow the next lot of feathers and are a slightly different colour. And THEN they do their 6 week molt and feather in a totally different colour again. These "silver" japs I hatched are not silver... -
red eyed Coturnix chick
Some of you may have seen my post on a Facebook quail group about this little surprise, but for those who haven't seen or may have some ideas, any input is greatly appreciated. I hatched my first lot of eggs from my quails on a bit of a whim. I really like the form and temperament of my birds... -
Hello :3
Long time forum creeper, just finally made an account. I'm from Western Australia. Right now I'm keeping Coturnix because we aren't allowed to have chickens in my area. At my old house I had a flock of 20 made up of Ancona, araucanas, hiline rescues, old english game, Pekins and the...- Monkau
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