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    Odd smell coming from fresh eggs

    Does anyone else get an odd funky smell coming from their fresh eggs as they are stored for hatching? I keep any eggs i am keeping for hatching in the basement in a tray and tilt them each day. I also have my incubator in the same area. A lot of the summer when i was constantly...
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    Hatch rate caulculations, include dead chicks?

    Hi Guys, this time around when our quail chicks hatched we had 2 that hatched out, but then died in the incubator before we moved them to the brooder. When you're looking at your hatch rates, do you include them in your hatched numbers since they did successfully get out of the shell, or would...
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    How long until scalped quail can be reintroduced?

    So my newer chicks just hit 6 weeks old and one of the males went ballistic and has scalped two others. I separated the injured birds to my brooder, the aggressive male and a couple other males who had noticeable foam went to holding for freezer camp and the one remaining male and 4 (i think...
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    Do jumbo quail smell worse than standard?

    We've had our small flock of 7 standard quail for about a year now and we recently got 9 jumbo chicks. Pretty much after the first week i couldn't wait to get them outside, they stunk! A few weeks later of constant brooder cleanings and foul smells we finally got them outside with a heat lamp...
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    Turning vs not turning, an unintended experiment

    The past few months i have been hatching some eggs for a friend of mine who has a hobby farm and doesn't have enough incubator space to keep up. I have the normal chicken rails, not the quail rails, so no matter what i only have 42 spots on my turner and usually end up doing a mix of chicken and...
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    There's always one in every group

    I picked up some new chicks today and since the minute i got them home there is one that has been just chirping his head off. The rest will sleep, walk around, eat, but they all do it quietly, and the noisy chirper is the only tuxedo chick, so it's easy to tell it is just him and not multiple...
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    How much ventilation does a quail hutch need?

    I'm in the process of building a new quail hutch and I'm weighing the need for ventilation vs being sealed up to block out drafts for the winter. I'm in Canada, so I'm worried about the cold temps we get. The hutch itself is approx 3'x6'. One side is going to 1/2" hardware cloth on the bottom...
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    What's the oldest a male can be without foam?

    So we've had our 6 quail now for quite a while and I still can't tell how many males we have. The first 4 are 11 weeks old, the other two are 9 weeks. I've been getting one egg a night predictably for a few weeks now, but only ever 1. I have tried vent sexing them all, and I have one producing...
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    Fall lighting and the risk of cold weather moulting

    Hi guys, relatively new to quail and this will be my first fall/winter with them. We're getting down to where we're only getting a little less than 14 hours of sun a day now, and the days are getting shorter. I would like to add some lights and keep my quail laying for a little while longer as...
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    Chickens vs quail incubator temps/humidity, help me figure out why quail hatched and chickens didn't.

    So after my first time incubating eggs i had both success and disappointment. I had 16 quail eggs and 6 chicken eggs from a friend that i was using to test out the incubator. It's a little giant 9200 still air that i added a fan and an stc-1000 temp controller to instead of trying to twist the...
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    Is this chick shrink wrapped?

    We had 16 quail eggs and 6 chicken eggs in the incubator for our first test since we set it up. We had our first chick hatch at noon of day 17, so today, two days later we had 14/16 quail and 1/3 chicken eggs hatch, with 3 of the chicken eggs not being fertile and removed at the beginning of...
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    Are these eggs fertilized?

    After reading about people successfully hatching quail eggs from a supermarket, I got to thinking if the same can be done with chicken eggs. I know that most commercial eggs in the grocery stores aren't fertilized, but a local place sells eggs that come from a breeder farm nearby, so I figured...
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    Help confirm quail sex/colouring

    Hi Guys, I recently got 4 quail and there's two dark brown and two that are much lighter. I'm new to quail, so still figuring most things out, but i believe the lighter coloured ones would be considered Italian, but the darker ones i'm less sure about. My best guess is Tibetan or Rosetta, but...
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    Room Humidity vs incubator humidity

    Hi Guys, I am very new to the incubation process and am just starting out with my first incubator being set up right now. I tried searching, but couldn't find anything that quite answered my question on humidity levels in the room vs in the incubator. I know during the initial days the...
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    Little Giant Incubator mods/temp controller help

    Hi Guys, I need some help/advice on an incubator. I have the option of getting a used little giant 9200 pretty cheap, but it's just the basic still air model. An auto egg turner seems pretty easy/standard to add in, but the incubator and the temp regulation seems to be very very poor. My...
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    Just getting in to quail, how many should i get?

    Hi Guys, I am going to be getting my first bunch of quail ever in the next few weeks. I have the hutch pretty much done now, just need a nice day to finish the second coat of paint, get the doors on, some roofing for the top and add in a dust tray in and i'll be all set to get some quail. My...
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    Another new guy

    Hi guys, new guy from Canada, starting to look into quail, would like to try incubating some eggs with my daughter at some point, so reading up as much as i can beforehand.
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