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  1. beccabonny

    Quail Hatch - Thought I had more time!

    I got my dates wrong and thought I was on day 13, but I woke up to peeps from my egg-turner incubator. Now that I look at the calendar, it's actually day 15, so they are early, but my issue is I have been doing staggered hatches and have eggs on day 9 in there as well. I see pipped eggs in...
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    Cross Breeding Questions

    They both appear to have a rosetta tux base - the lighter one has a diluter that appears to be roux (I know this is called range or scarlett but I can't keep track of which is which...so I just use roux dilute for my punnet squares). From what I understand about roux, females only have the one...
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    Weasel Saga Continues...

    Sorry to hear about the cat! We have one who is way too interested, but I think he's an indoor cat who escapes irregularly. The hardware cloth covering every opening larger than a quarter seems effective, but they can still hear, smell, and see those little killers. And boy, do they let us know...
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    Weasel Saga Continues...

    Caught a baby ermine in the live trap today and mama was right there trying to get it out. She followed us around the yard. It's legal in NYS to take weasels damaging property (i.e. the 10 quail they murdered a few days ago). I'm wondering if it would be logical to use baby as bait since mama...
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    First HG-only hatch

    Ended up with 18 babies, 2 quitters and 2 that were unfertilized but too hard to see due to dark shells. So far, looks like we have tibetan tuxes, a silver pharaoh, some falb and grau fees (yessss!) and some pearl fees along with a few pharaohs. Time to candle batch 2! We had one baby with...
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    First HG-only hatch

    Seven pips now! Almost half! I also saw one egg rocking and rolling, which I rarely get to see. Having trouble keeping the humidity up; I did a dry hatch this time but for hatching I'm trying to keep it around 50%. My thermometer gun still reads the shell temps in the 80s. That thing is...
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    First HG-only hatch

    Still nothing as of this morning. I did the stupid thing and didn't use extra thermometers. I think the temp ran low the entire incubation, but switching to the lockdown 'bator was even cooler. I grabbed my extra thermometers from the kitchen and got a reading of 80F. Have they been at 80 since...
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    First HG-only hatch

    Lockdown! Hoping to see pips tonight. I set a second batch in the first brooder after I moved the first batch to the lockdown brooder. I can’t wait to see what colors and personalities emerge! I don’t know if it’s the stock (Myshire) or that I played podcasts not stop in the brooder, but this...
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    The new batch!

    Here are some of our babies - they hatched around the 18-24th of June. The Rosetta is the one I call Favorite who has no fear. We got about seven or eight Pansy fees, seven wilds, and a few silver varieties. I think this white is a silver. I got fewer Tibetans than I would have liked, but the...
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    The new batch!

    Yesterday, I added more framing, the hardware cloth “roof”, and finally got to fill the rest of the dirt floor in! Like I said, I originally dug down 19 inches or so. It’s been filled back up about a foot, to which I’d like to be able to add more soil/wood chips to for the compost project. The...
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    The new batch!

    After getting the initial supports in, I started adding in more hardware cloth and the frames. The whole garden is on a hill, so if anything appears to not be level…well, it’s entirely possible! But the hill doesn’t help. The husband handed me a level about halfway through. Did I mention I had...
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    The new batch!

    The garden fencing is somewhat dilapidated, so my next step was to add extra support so that at least this corner of the garden would be safe from catastrophic failure. All wood used in this project is recycled from a fence we took down (they previously had used most of the yard for...
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    The new batch!

    I felt inspired to give the quail a more natural habitat after seeing how happy the quail at our wedding venue were. I had no idea the conservatory in Rochester even had quail, but it seems perfect that quail would show up in our elopement photos! We have a fully enclosed raised bed garden...
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    The new batch!

    Well, it’s been two years since the weasel incident that took 40 of my beautiful young quails from me. The survivors living in the hutch are aging out of producing eggs, so I decided it was time to add a new batch to the covey. I ordered 75 hatching eggs from Myshire: Pansy fee, SSC, and...
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    • aviary quail stories
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    Escaped quail? Eaten by rats?

    Sorry to hear about your loss! I would def have assumed the rat was responsible. I don't think coturnix would survive in the wild for any amount of time, but when I have had the odd escape (letting toddlers hold quail is not a good idea), I took comfort in the fact that some animal had a nice...
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    How far away from the chickens should I put quails? I read horror stories if they are close by.

    I think I'd just try not to have their waste and/or food have any chance of mixing in order to reduce the possibility of disease transmission. Not much you can do about the predators, but I started w quail so I just assumed that was all birds, haha.
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    Dead baby quail

    Are you dipping their beaks in the water as soon as you put them in the brooder? Baby quail may never find it if you don't show them. Food is easier. I second grinding the 30% gamebird starter crumbles it (I use the ninja) for the first little while. Sounds like they might be dehydrated. Are you...
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    Two bators set same day, hatching different days

    On day 19 of a coturnix hatch. We set 75 shipped eggs and 43 home grown jumbos on 6/1. The GoF bator started hatching on day 15 while pips seemed to just have been starting yesterday for the farm innovator. I’m assuming the temps were lower in the second which slowed down the hatch? Just...
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    Stray…maybe Rhode Island Red?

    Thanks! I have been asking around, no luck yet in finding her flock.
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    Stray…maybe Rhode Island Red?

    Consensus is mutt! That’s fine by me, we are a roo-free flock until we get more rural. Maybe she will be able to teach my week-old babies a few things when they get older. She very much does not like to be handled. Is there any hope of taming her or is it a lost cause at this point? I did notice...
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