to start not alot of people know me here I mostly read....right now I'm on quail finally got hens laying and eggs hatching. I have a few silkies and rir, delawares, along with some game chickens and quail. anyway I read alot here and feel like someone knows what I'm going through....we filed...
I was given some game birds they look like brown reds with dark legs.....the hens are black with brown breast also dark legs......they are muddy so could be green legged.. they came from Alabama I believe .really would like to know more about them. they have... well most of them have small...
I have one coturnix roo with a throat tuft. it hangs down like a side burn...kinda elvis like lol. Is it a bad thing ...I'd like to give him his own hen in hopes of hatching out elvis quail but if it is a bad genetic trait I won't....other than the look of it ,I really don't see how it would be...
I've been reading alot lately about quail, I in fact have 76 eggs in the bator to hatch in about 2 weeks. Somewhere I read that keeping a red light on the quail or just allowing light every 2 hours makes them grow bigger. Has anyone tried this?
Kathleena in Ky