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  1. arbucklemurphy

    Great Egg's and Great Shipper's

    I just wanted to post about the wonderful egg's I have been getting to start our quail. I have ordered egg's from both pigeonjim and JJMR794 and both had excellent service. I got the egg's right away and they were packaged wonderfully, no egg's broke. My pigeonjim egg's hatched 2 weeks ago...
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    Newbie Question?

    Ok. so i have a couple questions. This is my first hatch of quail up to now I just had bantam chickens. My cotounix quail are 2 weeks old and are feathering fast but a couple are half the size of the others. Is this normal? I raise bantam modern game and every once in a great while I will...
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    What is Flushing?

    I'm seeing this in post's but am new to quail and have now idea what "Flushing" means.
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    Egg's of Different Poultry Species for 4-H project

    The egg's dont need to be fertile and I just need 2-3 of each kind for instance geese, turkey, quail. maran. My 4-H kids want to do a shadow box display for our fair showing the different kids of egg's different species lay. I am willing to pay for them and reimburse shipping just let me know...
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    What to feed?

    Ok. So I finally found a local feed store that carries game bird starter but they only have a medicated one is that ok to feed my day old quail?
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    How do I get them to drink

    Ok. So I had a great first hatch out of 25 shipped egg's 16 hatched yesterday and who ever said it was like popcorn was right I've never seen anything hatch so fast once one started they just kept going like crazy I still have the remainder of egg's in the incubator but not sure if they will...
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    Egg Cartons?

    I hatch my chicken egg's in egg carton's. Should I do that for my quail? I have 25 going into my first lockdown today and I'm not sure if I should just lay them on there side when I take the turner out or put them in egg carton's with the little end down? Any advice would be great!
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    Candeling Question

    I'm wondering how often I can candle. My last hatch didn't go so well a lot of early quitters but at different stages. I only candled at 10 days and got rid of the clears and then again when it was time to go into lockdow. I was using an LG but have now switched to a Hovabator. I would like...
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    Duckling loosing feathers?

    We have a 3 week old duckling that we usualy let swim in the tub a couple times a week today he has theses stragly feathers on his tail and they started falling out in the tub? Is this normal. We have lot's of chickens but this is our first duck it is a Mallard that my kids hatched a few weeks...
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    Counting Days??

    Ok. So we put our egg's in in the afternoon when my son got home from school. My question is do you count the day you put them in as day one or is the following day day one. I'm not sure??
  11. arbucklemurphy

    WTB Bantam Frizzle egg's

    We would like bantam frizzle egg's my daughter loves them and I've been looking to buy one for a while and haven't been able to find any in our area. The ones she has looked at in the books are the rhode island red frizzle's or cochin frizzles but I think she would take any kind. She needs a...
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    Incubation Detail for Courtnix Quail

    I'm getting 24 Courntix Quail egg's tomorrow (Texas A&M) can anyone give me the specifics on temps and humidity for incubation. I have a forced air hovabator with egg turner. I've hatched chicken's but not quail and I wasn't sure if the temps and humidity were the same. Thanks
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    How long do I wait???

    I set egg's on the evening of 2/28 and as of today I still have no pips. How long do I wait before I assume they are not going to hatch. I candled them before going into lock down and all were viable but I'm not sure what to do now. Humidity and temp haven't changed and the incubator has not...
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    New to Incubating Temp Question

    We have been using a LG incubator for our first hatch of two duck eggs someone gave us an old Roll-X incubator and I downloaded the instructions plugged it in to warm up it now is close to a temp of 108-110 and I have the knob turned all the way down? Any help with this one do I need to replace...
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    Help with a Duckling Hatch

    Delima. I had 2 mallard duck eggs in the incubator yesterday was the 28th day. One hatched on day 27 how long do I wait on the other one before I give up on waiting for it to hatch. I candled them both before lock down and they definetly had duck's in them? What is the longest it could take...
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    Floaties in the egg I just candled???

    I just candled my 12 eggs from the bator it is day 11 for them. One of them has this black dot's the size of the end of bic pen floating around in there there were 4 of these dots I have never seen this before we are still pretty new to hatching. What is this?? Any help would be appreciated.
  17. arbucklemurphy

    Egg Candeling Recomendation

    Can you recomend and egg candler to me that is reasonably priced. I have a 4-H poultry project and we are hatching eggs for the first time. We have been studying egg development and I would like to be able to accuratly show them on the eggs as we go along. I see a lot of differnet ones on the...
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    Egg storage question??

    My sone is hatching his modern game bantams in and incubator this year. Last year we tried letting the hens sit but they were not very good moms most of them left the nest before the eggs hatched. So we are now incubating but how long can we store the fertile eggs before putting them in the...
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    New Baby Mallard having trouble getting to eat?

    One of the kids in my 4-H poultry group brought me these two mallard duck eggs to hatch along with some of my chicken eggs I said sure but have never had any ducklings before. Only one has hatched so far and I am having trouble getting it to eat. It drinks fine but I have only gotten it to eat...
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    What's left inside the egg???

    This might be a really stupid question but I just hatched my first duck and left inside the egg is this gross glob. My son' wants to know what it is and I have no clue. Can anyone answer this question?? Thanks
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