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Yep, I feed 30% protein with supplemental cat food, oyster shell, lentils, and leafy greens to keep my quail happy. Hopefully more than just one of my 11 hens will start laying.

To update any newcomers, I now have 9 (2 males, 7 females) quail in an outdoor 4 ft by 4 ft chicken coop, while my injured quail (a male and 5 females) are in a 2 ft by 4 ft indoor cage. All of them get around 14 hours of light per day and all are fed on a 30% protein gamebird starter feed...

Yep they're being fed nothing but a 30% protein gamebird starter feed now, with ground up cat kibbles added in occasionally. They have diatomaceous earth to dust bathe in as well as dust from the bedding. I throw a little bit of their food as well as some lentils and sunflower seeds in the...

So to give this thread a bump and to give you all an update, here's whats happened since my last post. One quail was killed by its cage mates and cannibalized, and several others were wounded, so I immediately moved all of the uninjured quail outside to a 4 ft by 4 ft chicken coop. The larger...

Thank you all for your input. Just to update you, laying has resumed, but I'm only getting about one egg per day again. I've also decided to move the Coturnix quail outdoors into a converted chicken coop which is much roomier in the hopes that the increased space and quality of life will lead to...

My birds are only 3 months old, they've been in their current enclosure for 2 months, they're getting approximately 14+ hours of light per day, and to the best of my knowledge they are not stressed since I have a good male to female ratio.

Do silver gene females lay? Because the better part of my flock of 15 birds is made up of silver females and I'm still only getting 1 egg every few days. On top of this, I've tried incubating the eggs a few times and I'm not even sure they're fertile despite the fact that I have two silver males...

That's what I thought. I'll post eggtopsy pics later today.

I candled it again today and once again saw nothing except a slightly darker orange blob floating around in the egg and moving in whichever direction I moved the egg as well as some black-ish crap along the air cell. It doesn't stink but I think it is a quitter. Thoughts?

Alright! Candled again today, and saw nothing except a dark blob that moved when the egg was turned, and some dark stuff towards the air cell.

It is close to the air cell. I think I may see a vein but it's hard to tell. I ran the incubator at around 50% humidity.

Alright, will do! Anything to look for while it's incubating to tell if it's a quitter (Movement or lack of, smell, general appearance etc.)?

I've had a turkey egg incubating in my hova bator still air at around 100-101 degrees for 22 days now and am not sure if it's even alive. I only see a dark-ish unmoving blob when I candle it and am not sure if it is a late stage quitter. Can anyone help me out?

So a person on craigslist posted that they had found an abandoned nest of wild turkey eggs. They left it alone for a day but returned to find all but one egg smashed. They then came to me and I put the egg in my hova bator at around 100.5 degrees. Anyone know what conditions a wild turkey egg...

I sent you a PM regarding hatching eggs.

Huh, strange.

Alrighty, I'd be happy with any mentorship. I'm probably gonna start with fertile eggs from my own hens.

I sent you a pm regarding the second hatch. I was also wondering, does anybody have any experience as far as buying hatching eggs from MyPetChicken.

If you read earlier in the thread I posted real time info on all of the eggs.

The eggs were from a plymouth rock so they were brown. For the next hatch I'm considering doing either the same homebred black sex link cross or some RIR easter egger babies.