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    Black Copper Marans cockerel

    Hi everybody. My Black Copper Marans cockerel is just over 4 months old. We have like one breeder here in South Africa that imported BCM's so as with many breeds the genetics and quality are iffy. Any thoughts on this guy? I tried my best to catch him standing still and in a few different...
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    English Orpington - Colour question

    Hi everybody. Greetings from South Africa. I have a variety of English Orpingtons, including splash, black mottled, blue mottled, chocolate and Mauve. I hatched some eggs from a breeder friend of mine and this was one of the pullets. He does have Jubilee birds but the colouring is not what I...
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    Chocolate & Mauve Orpingtons

    Hi everybody. I just wanted some opinions on my 4 month old Chocolate and Mauve Orpingtons. I am not sure if the coloring is quite right and there aren't loads of images on the internet.
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    Inexperience at spotting the fertile "bullseye".

    Hi everybody, I sure this has been asked a million times but I am really bad at spotting the so called fertile "bullseye". Please have a look at this egg and let me know what you think? All the images are the same egg.
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    My Ayam Cemani cockerel

    Hi from South Africa. Just wanted to get some opinions on my Ayam Cemani cockerel. We have an extremely limited genepool in SA but some excellent breeders.
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    Silver Partridge Brahma - cockerels?

    Hi everybody. Greetings from South Africa. I have hatched 4 Silver Partridge Brahma and 3 Ayam Cemani chicks. They are currently 5.5 weeks old. I am pretty sure two of the Brahma chicks are pullets and I am 99% sure the other two are boys. I thought I would post some pics to get confirmation. If...
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    Hatching Silver Partridge Brahma & Ayam Cemani eggs!

    Hello form South Africa! We are currently in our winter (still very mild compared to what some experience up north) but I was lucky enough to receive 6 Silver Partridge Brahma & 6 Ayam Cemani eggs from a local breeder, which I set in my incubator on 27 May 2021. 5 of the Brahma eggs and 4 of the...
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    My biggest incubation and hatching project yet!

    I have been hatching quail eggs quite successfully. My latest batch is 4 days old and they are too cute for words. I have now moved on to my biggest incubation project so far. I am going to be incubating about 350 Hy-Line Brown eggs. The incubator is ready and the eggs will go in tomorrow...
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    Quail are now almost 4 weeks old

    My quail are now almost 4 weeks old and they are growing SO fast! I am trying to determine males/females and most seem quite easy to sex. I have attached some photos! Would be right to say photo 1 and 2 are female and 3 and 4 male? The "females" have a bit of rust colouring so might be males and...
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    Quail chicks - update

    So my quail chicks are now 12 and 13 days old and growing super fast. So I had a 95% hatch rate and every single chick is still going strong (there are two little runts but I am watching them like the proverbial hawk). They have feathered out so much, they basically only have chick "heads" now...
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    And the downside of raising poultry in South Africa

    So living in Africa is incredible until the power goes out when you have 3 day old chicks in the brooder?! And a couple of hopefully eggs still in the incubator! Restoration time unknown.
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    Unexpected "late" arrival

    I had almost all of my quail chicks hatch on day 17 and 18. A couple of eggs didn't hatch but I left them in the incubator assuming they may hatch a bit later. Nothing on day 19 and suddenly on Day 20 one additional baby makes an appearance. I am wondering if I should leave the rest a bit...
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    Quail chicks - the mess is unreal

    Okay I have raised all sorts of animals, including a few weird ones (warthog and meerkat's) but the quail babies make a HUGE mess!:lau Poop machines and they literally turn their waterer into a dirty, mushy, quail Jacuzzi (even with the marbles in there).
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    Jumbo Coturnix Quail weight

    Hi everybody. What are the body weights of your larger adult Jumbo Coturnix Quail? I have read some interesting stuff of people claiming birds weighing around 500g(17/17 ounces). Sorry, South African metric system.😂 Would be interesting to see what sizes people are breeding in the real world.😊
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    New from sunny South Africa

    Good day everybody. I have been reading this forum for ages since I first started keeping chickens at home about a year ago and the information has been invaluable. I live in an urban environment so I only have 9 hens. I have also just embarked on the hatching quail chicks for the first time...
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