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I have decided to part with my very nice breeding trio of Lavender Ameraucana's. The hens are 1.5 years old, and are proven producers. The roo is a 5 mos old cockeral from different lines than the hens, and is a very nice specimen. The hens lay a blue egg with a hint of green. The cockeral...

Can someone please help clarify how to sex a GCM? I have one lone GCM chick and would like to figure out what sex it is. I was originally under the impression that you could sex them by the size of the white spot on their heads....just like BR's. But then in doing some reading, I heard that...

I just had my first hatch of quail, and I'm having lots of fun being entertained by their antics!! They are definitely different than chicken chicks. LOL Now that we've succeeded to incubate and hatch some quail, I have a few questions. We got 50 eggs that were advertised as Jumbo...

Well, I set 54 quail eggs yesterday. This is my first time hatching quail, so wish me luck. I originally planned on setting about 20-25 eggs to 'test the waters' but happened on a good deal and my hubby jumped on it - so 54 eggs is what we got! LOL Anyway, since I wasn't planning on that...

Hi, New here to the quali forum. I've hatched, raised, and kept chickens but have never raised or kept any quail. I am looking into getting some eggs to hatch so that I can raise some for meat. I'm going to start out small - maybe a couple dozen eggs - as a test run. So I've been reading...

I'm currently on Kauai and desperately missing my fresh eggs. We had to buy store-bought watery eggs!!! Anyone here on BYC live on Kauai and sell fresh eggs? I would love to buy some for the remainder of our stay. We are on the east side, so would prefer that location to buy some. But we...

This feels like a 'dumb' question, but I can't find an answer here......... For you folks that have the brinsea Octagon 20, when you go into lockdown with a full bator, do you just leave the eggs as they are between the rails? Or do you remove the rails and somehow get them all on their sides...

I have a question for all you experienced people here.........my rooster is acting a bit aggressive towards one particular hen, and I find it very odd. Just wondering if this is normal roo behavior or if anyone has any idea why he might have suddenly decided he doesn't like this hen! The roo...

I also took the plunge and bought myself a Brinsea Octogon Eco 20, which I received yesterday - yeah! I set it up last night and got it running (empty). It got up to temp really quickly (wow!!) but the temp seems to be holding steady around 98.5 instead of 99.5 like it's 'supposed' to. I do...

I know this subject has been beaten to death before - I've read tons of threads about how unpopular the LG is and how people have had such bad hatches with it, and do recommend a Brinsea or Hovabator. But I really haven't seen my questions/concerns answered in those threads, so I'm asking all...

I'm hoping I can get some input here to help me make a decision. I am looking to build a small flock of a good dual purpose breed. I don't need an extremely rare breed or color, but of course would like something that is 'eye candy' for me and also something that people would typically want to...

I have a Cuckoo Marans pullet that I got from a backyard breeder who has lots of chickens and several different breeds, so I really don't have any idea of quality of her birds. I just have a backyard flock as well, so don't really care, but did want to have a hen that gives me terra cotta...

I have an EE that just started laying a few days ago......and so far she has given us 3 eggs, and none were deposited in a nest box. This is the first pullet that I've had (of about 10 or so) that has not automatically gone into a nest box! The first egg was outside the henhouse, on the ground...