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Sorry for the delay in responding Mr Bill, if you go back and read the conversation from the start it is about the larger eggs not fitting the quail trays. My oppinion is that the larger eggs produce a chick that hatches late and is slower than the others. When I inspected the hatched eggs I...

Mr Bill, I'm not a PhD but just a US Congressional Appointee to Anappolis, former USMC disabled. I hold 5 degrees. I enlisted as a grunt at 17 years old, farm boy. I need to ask what part about the yoke sack is "horse feathers" considering 20-25% of a chicks body weight at hatching is yoke sack?

Tammy, the yoke sack, not yoke. Again try Google. A yoke sack is in the chick after it hatches, the food for its first few hours of life (all chicks are like this not just quail) Why you can leave the chicks in the incubator up to 12 hours after they hatch.

Tammy N you can answer your own questions. If you place a Coturnix quail egg next to a Tatanka are they exactly they same except proportionally? No, they are not. Why did a well know university develope a quail for food, also conturnix, but it is mixed? ie has different genes mixed in, instead...

Sill, I said the bigger eggs of the same Coturnix breed that are being called the Tatanka. I am not saying a bigger egg from another breed. Your right that it takes longer for them to hatch, but no longer for the cellular division. The breed hasn't changed just that time it takes to get out of...

When I first toyed with the idea of raising quail for my falcons I also was looking at the eggs for a food source. I lived in SE Asia for 4 years and both quail and the eggs were used for human consumption. My first pen of hens producing eggs for us to eat, the eggs were normal size, dropped...

I just ran across this thread. I built 2 incubators, one has a 4 degree temp swing in it the other I used the bi-metal thermostat both hatch chicks. I use the quail egg trays (I raise quail to feed my falcons) and don't turn them religiously, sometimes only once a day. The chicks still hatch...

Chances of the first weeks eggs being fertile are slim, I take and cook them up for the dogs. I hatch chicks every 2 days right now. A continuous rotation to feed my falcons. I fill a tray of 20 eggs, that goes into the incubator, a tray is removed and placed into the hatcher. I bought a bag of...

I get those too when young hens just come of age. Don't panic don't feed any calcium supplement yet they are too young. The next egg should be OK. I get double yokes too on the first timers. Never know.

Try this. First time using the iPad for a picture. These are my newest eggs from breeders that just matured. The eggs are a little smaller, I am hoping this stops them from falling as the trays are tilted during incubation.

Just thought of something, looks like that is a double, like 2 eggs that became one. Crack it open I bet you have a double yoke. The profile view looks like it comes in then out. Let us know

I get eggs like that when a hen just starts laying. My normal is 1-1/2" long almost falling out of the quail egg trays for incubating. I need to post some pictures later today

I mix in eggs ordered off eBay just for that reason. Those eggs hatched mid Nov now mating the roosters with my hens and my roosters with some of those hens. No chicks yet just started getting eggs.

I need to keep an eye on you chicks! Your having wayyyyyyy too much fun here :D

First time to try a picture, but here is a spot all your chickens can hide in :)

this is an interesting topic. I started raising quail to feed my falcons and just for kicks would pick the hens that laid the largest eggs, next generation the same culling the old ones etc. this last batch I just hatched, some of the eggs didn't even fit into the quail trays. Are these the...

The shell of an egg (typically a chicken egg) is made up of primarily calcium carbonate. If you soak this egg shell in vinegar (which is about 4% acetic acid), you start a chemical reaction that dissolves the calcium carbonate shell. The acetic acid reacts with the calcium carbonate in the egg...

Preparing for winter was a concern from the onset of setting up my back yard coop design. I simply placed the entire coop on a trailer so I can move it to any desired location, be it in between buildings to reduce wind chill, or into a shed in extreme conditions. Then be able to relocate it back...