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    How old are my quail?

    Proper feeding, and husbandry as well as genetic selection for the specific traits that make a domestically created bird what it was intended to be in the beginning or what you want to become for a specific project. In this case (A&Ms) a healthy, large bird that will achieve its maximum size in...
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    Breeding Texas A&M with Pharoahs

    If you are getting tuxedo offspring then you have a rosetta/tibetan/italian in there. Pharaohs do not make tuxedos in any combination. A&Ms will all have a genetic marker spot, it will be on the head or on the back, they were selected for this trait to identify them as market (meat) birds...
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    Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

    Keep in mind that eggs with no shell (rubber eggs, softshell eggs, whatever people want to call them) are not at all related to calcium intake. They are function of stress due to environmental factors. They come from the hen deciding to clear her vent for various purposes. Hens that are...
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    Quail question on receiving eggs or chicks via mail

    Everywhere that sells hatching eggs will ship them to your residence.
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    My first year with quail

    Turkey starter will be the most commonly available high protein feed and is usually in the 27% range. Bobs will go cannibal for a lot of things but feed quality isn't one. I know a large shooting preserve producer who feeds their bobs 22% chick starter until 8 weeks then switches to 16% chicken...
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    Anyone know if quail are legal in Philadelphia? Or any other large city?

    Call your state wildlife agency they will be the organization that manages whatever regulations your state has. Every state is different.
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    Noise is driving me crazy! Ready to butcher

    Don't candle before day 8 if youre new at hatching. When you do candle don't waste time looking for red dots and veins yet. Either the egg will light up like the second one pictured earlier in this thread or the light wont pass all the way through the egg. Some coturnix eggs are too dark to ever...
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    Breeding Texas A&M with Pharoahs

    Pharaohs are incomplete dominant not dominant. White is a recessive gene, meaning that each parent needs one copy of the gene for a bird to be born white. Brown is incomplete dominant, not dominant. Meaning that if you breed a pharoah to a white bird or recessive white (A&M) you will get...
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    How old are my quail?

    Different colors of coturnix don't act differently. Your previous birds were more vocal because something was bothering them or they wanted something. It's the only thing coturnix make noise for. Any bird with yellow feathering is going be in the neighborhood of 4-5 weeks but after those...
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    quail eintroduction

    It has been proven through time and trial that releasing birds doesn't do much for local populations. Some parts of the US have been releasing bobwhites for over 100 years, if it was going to work with any regular frequency, it would have. There are several reasons why it doesn't work in most...
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    When to take Baby Quail off heat?

    By the end of the 4th week they will be fully feathered and usually ready to come off the heat lamp. Don't rush it though or their metabolism will sap energy used to grow the body in order to grow feathers faster. At any rate until they are fully feathered they cannot retain body heat, and until...
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    caring for coturnix quail advice

    Not to be rude, and it will sound like I am, youre trying to reinvent a wheel that many hundreds if not thousands of people have failed to. Coturnix will not go broody with any reliable frequency. Some will just because of the sheer mathematical possibility but its not something any keeper can...
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    Olive colored Coturnix quail egg?

    Yep sometimes theyre even purple or neon blue/green. Seen some pretty wacky colors from stress eggs. On the other end of the spectrum soft eggs are also produced because of stress. Inaccurately most people assume that eggs with no hard shell are due to calcium. They actually come from hens under...
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    How much space for bobwhite...

    No less than 4 sq feet per bird
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    Olive colored Coturnix quail egg?

    Its a stress repaint. Hen didnt feel like laying retained the egg and the ovaduct painted it again. i know youve been looking for blue eggers but you can only get them from james marie farm or from someone who has. The schofield collection Robby imported are the only birds in the entire country...
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    Best type of coutrnix quail?

    A coturnix is a coturnix is a coturnix. The only reason id suggest sticking with goldens or pharaohs is that theyre easier to sex.
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    Trying to identify male/female quails...

    Only goldens and paharoahs can be feather sexed all other color phases must be sexed another way
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    Trying to identify male/female quails...

    The 1st two are females the second two are most likely roosters but youll have to wait and see another week or so, the last one cant be sexed by feather pattern so youll have to wait for it to mature as well.
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    newbie needing help - humidity & brooder light

    I wire dimmer switches on all my brooder lights to better control the heat they put off. Make sure the floor temp is just less than 100* directly under the light amd theyll go into and out of the heat ring it creates on their own.
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    What kind of quail is this?

    Tibetan tuxedo coturnix.
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