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This spring I plan on starting to build "breeding pens" to keep the more rare and exotic (or chickens I think just look cool) away from my regular mixed flock. Recently I've come across MPC and noticed they have quite a few of the more rare and exotic birds in both chicks and eggs compared to...

Hello, I have 24 Batam cochins of all colors that are about 4 1/2 months old. I want to feed them a good grower mix of grains and what not that I can get at a local feed store. I found a good "recipe" for laying hens but can't find much of a grower "recipe" any ideas of a good recipe that has...

I've been having a heck of a time keep my bobwhite chicks alive!! Hatched out 17 or so if I remember right last week. Now I'm down to 9!! All been shipped eggs so some not surviving but 50% is making me go this last one to die, a snowflake I noticed the morning it died it would just stand there...

Oh alright I see! But yea with the shipped eggs I've gotten so far I'll let sit 12-24 hours then they go into the incubator on the auto egg turners. The more I read about shipped eggs though it sounds like them getting to that point then dying is fairly common like you said. My coturnix are...

From what I read and was told is that your suppose to let shipped eggs rest (big end up) for 24 hours before incubation. Your saying after receiving shipped eggs they should go into turning immediately though hu?

Hello! I need a little help on tweaking my end of the incubation process. I've did a batch of coturnix quail and bobwhite quail (all shipped) and ended up with almost the exact same results. After weeding out non fertile and disrupted air sac eggs I can usual get the rest the eggs to develop far...

Well what happened?!? I just got done incubating some bobwhite eggs. Diidn't quite get that hatch I was hoping for. Course all mine were shipped eggs but I'm still trying to get as close to perfect on my end as I can! Curious to how well the dry incubation and bobwhite work out. I kept my...

Sand!!! This was the first year using it and will never use anything else from now on in my brooders!

I've bought eggs from him!! The tuxedos! Best hatch rate I've had for coturnix was from him!

No problem! I'm in the same boat myself, I'm just getting into quail. I know where your coming from trying to find small quantities or chicks/adults within driving distance. I just got a hova bator myself! Three mutations of bobwhite are due to start hatching the 23rd. Good luck in your...

Do you incubate at all? If so you can find about any quantity of eggs for quail your wanting. Just always that risk of incubating shipped eggs.

Yeah decided going on the inside would be a better idea in my case. Last question is have you ever had them fail at filling with water? (Besides of course running out of water ) Bought some off eBay, now just debating if one per pen is enough or I should do two just in case one fails.

Alright cool thank you! You ever had problems with predators waiting for quail to stick their head out and grab them? All my pens are raised and are 1" x 1/2" wire mesh on front. I'd have to cut a hole but was just curious.

I'm getting ready to move my 4-5 week old coturnix outside this weekend! We're suppose to have about the same weather. I plan on still having a heat lamp in there at night time for them. Gonna have it bout 90 degrees under the lamp, it's in bout a 7x7 pen so there's plenty of room for them to...

I personally have never used hay for any of my bird bedding so don't have much input there sorry. Just a thought though since your doing a "litter" method have you looked into the "deep litter" method? There's a really good thread on here that explains it very well. Seems like a really nice way...

I got two coturnix I hatched myself but these two are giving me problems deciding what "color" they are First one: The one above came from eggs that were either tib or tuxedo/tib compared to the other hatch mates he doesn't have the same color as the other tib's he's more zig zag pattern and...

I'm getting all my bobwhite mutations from a well know breeder out of Louisiana. That's what he told me, the white come from the snowflake mutation.

Where would I find some of them at? Or a name to look up online to see if I can find some?

After reading so many good reviews about this style of waters and chickens I decided I'd try it for quail too. I got a gallon sunny delight container and drilled two holes for the horizontal waters. I got it in with my 9 coturnix quail that are bout 4 weeks old I took the other quart chick...

I finally got my brinesea spot check thermometer. Was moving it all around the bator (forced air Genesis 1588). Now the bator is set to 99.5, according to the spot check everywhere was bout what it's suppose to be 99.5-99.9. Expect by the turner motor, about a 4" radius around this motor the...