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    Do you know what breed?

    Hi there. I just picked these brown chickens up today from someone down the road. They don’t know what breed they are? They are small, maybe a large Blanton size. They are brown with black tails and a few black feathers around the neck. I’m in Australia just fyi. Maybe it’s a brown Japanese...
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    Double Yolker quail egg!

    i have one quail that lays BIG eggs, this is her second double yolk egg... I’m tempted to incubate it to see if I can hatch twin chicks!
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    Terrible hatch rates!!! Please help

    So I’ve incubated around 4 lots of eggs now. And every time I get less than a third that hatch. I’ve put a thermometer in my incubator to make sure the temperature is 37.5 which it seems to be. The humidity is either really high or too low. It seems to be on either extreme, but it’s generally...
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    Does this quail chick look like a tuxedo?

    Hi this little guy hatched yesterday and I was pretty happy to see that he may look like a tux? What do you think? I know the guy I got the eggs from had mostly the dark brown range color with a few A&M white ones in there. Fingers crossed!
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    Broody quail behavior?

    Hi Everyone. I’m from Melbourne Australia and I’ve had caturnix quail for around 4 months. It’s spring time here and they’ve been laying now for around 3 weeks. I have 2 roosters and 6 hens in a large rabbit hutch. One of the females has laid 4 eggs in the same place in the sheltered part of the...
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    Duck, chicken & quail eggs all in together!

    More of an interesting hatch read... So, I got an incubator because I want to hatch quail. I ordered some in the post and now the ones that weren’t cracked or broken (only 11/26) are due to hatch in a few days. The eggs are full and it’s very exciting! My family have ducks and chickens... so my...
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    Can I put incubated eggs under a broody duck?

    So my mum gave me some duck eggs to incubate, which are around 16 days into their incubation now. A week later one of the ducks went broody and is now sitting on a pile of chicken eggs confusing I know they should separate them! But this duck is known to be a bit unreliable and she’s never...
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    When do duck eggs explode?

    Hi. I currently have 4 duck eggs in my incubator. I’m incubating for the first time and they are around day 14. I’ve candled the eggs regularly but I still am not 100% sure if there are chicks in all of them. two I have definitely seen vains and now they are starting to fill out in the egg. Two...
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    True or false; don’t open incubator within 24 hours of first chick hatching?

    I was told by a guy who sold me my first lot of coturnix quail eggs not to open the incubator within 24 hours of the first chick hatching. He said that if I did all the humidity would escape and the other chicks won’t hatch. This is gonna be really hard... because I’ve been really excited and Im...
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    Help please! Quail odd behavior

    hi everyone. I have a few questions about my coturnix quail. I have 2 roosters and 7 hens in quite a large rabbit cage with an open bottom. I have had them three weeks now and I’ve never heard the roosters crowing. Will this effect their breeding? We only have 11 hours of daylight atm so not...
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    Hi Everyone, Just joined today!

    hi everyone. Excited to join this community. I’ve had my 9 coturnix quail for around 3 weeks now. I’m from country Victoria in Australia. I thought it would be fun to get some quail again and breed them for eggs and meat. I’m going to build a run soon, and at the moment I’m focusing on adding to...
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