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this mornings cage clean & health check, had to re-boot my one curle toe, tape came off.

thanx. I was hoping for a tuxedo, I think there are 2. I also think a couple are Tibetan, must be my Tibetan's eggs :)

I have a white male Texas A&M, 4 regular brown gals, & one Tibetan with red (Rosseta?) girl. We just hatched 8 chicks last night. 3 I'm confident are regular browns but the others I'm excited to discover. My fav is a little golden belly chick with dark stripe on face & dark back (Tuxedo?)...

we have a male, he's made half the girls bald

I have 6 coturnix, all about 8 weeks old, 1 male, 5 female.One of my girls a week ago decided to start mounting the other girls (yes it's a girl & egg laying). I believe she is also responsible for plucking the feathers off the front neck area of most of the other girls. I noticed a few days...

P.S. I have them on organic feed so don't really want to add supplements/additives, but as I mentioned Legs is doing well & I haven't actually lowered the heat at all as I broke my lower watt bulb & no one is trying to get away from too much heat

Legs runs/jumps fine, is even more energetic than some of the others. Everyone else it twice as big but at least Legs' feathers are coming in now, just seems like s/he has no tail, rather funny looking but seams to be doing well & is happy as a bird can be.

they are all doing great except Legs who is still pretty close to birth size except his legs & feet but he is at least starting to get a few tiny scraggly wing feathers in. Ours are pets too. If Legs survives I hope its actually a girl so no chance of passing on bad genes. I assume if it is a...

my 2 & 5 yr old hatched them out so I'd rather do what we can do & if it doesn't make it, that's another life lesson.

I have 9 baby quail 5/6 days old. Everyone is doubled in size & already have their wing feathers mostly in (still covered in shafts) except 1 bird. I believe he was one of the last to hatch from a very small egg & the only egg in his row (closest to the heat source) to hatch. Basically the only...

well, put boots on him this morning. Took them off this evening to see how he was doing. His feet actually straightened & he was standing & getting about properly so I left him. About an hour later I found his dead :(

well down to 10 :( the last A&M who made it out on its own was stretched out this morning. As for Boots, I've finslly managed to get the taoe on but only had bandaids or scotch tape. The bandaids kepts slipping off while trying to get them on so he has scotch tape, will this be an issue, do his...

thanx everyone. apparently the only time in the 3 days that hatching has gone on apparently the 30 min. we took to go to our pool there was a temp spike. Last two with their beaks out perished but I saved the one who had started zipping though he has curled toes (attempting to fix that one if...

My second attempt at hatching (first attempt got only 1 chick). Mix of regular & A&Ms in a home made incubator. They've been coming out since day 18, some needed assistance (membrane just wouldn't break after full zip & fighting for an hour or 2 (lost one because my toddler kept screaming from...

thanks for all the awesome info! I figured we'd settle on 6 gals & 1 boy & the rest can go one craigslist. Being very urban I know there's a lot of people in my area wanting them. They too might be sent off at end of season if we can't winter them on our deck & we'll start fresh in the spring...

Thanx. I don't mind (& prefer) the smaller/average size bird (being in an appartment). We only care about eggs not meat. My biggest concern is inbreeding so my easiest option in my poor old brain is to make the male obvious (a white colour from an egg from a totally different source of the brown...

What will you get & will you get fertile/surviving offspring from a regular brown and a Texas A&M? Silly question I'm sure since they are all Coturnix, & what will they look like? Our first hatch yielded one little brown chick. If it turns out to be a boy all is right with the world. If it's a...

day 18 woke up to 1 chick :) do live chicks huddle around eggs they can hear someone alive inside by any chance? This little one seems very lonely but huddles back & forth between 2 specific eggs when its not pecking at the food or running around. i only floated 3 of our 15 eggs a couple days...

we would love to get into quails but we are in a tiny apartment possibly in violation of Strata rules (though we are using the "caged bird clause"...are Quail "fowl"? We are hoping to hatch some out for our kids to see. Last year we purchased a few live ones that laid us nice eggs to eat. We...

thanx. its just the water in my converted aquarium incubator. I will be moving them to a brooder but just want to make sure no one drowns if I'm not present when (if) they decide to hatch. Tue, is lock-down day, cross fingers, it's our first attempt.