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    Black American Bresse hatching eggs

    Both Bresse Farm and Farms got their birds from Greenfire or round about thru others. I got my white Bresse from all three.
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    Black American Bresse hatching eggs

    Tried many sources for Bresse chicks and eggs. The best health and genetics were from bressefarm.com . Will order my third batch from them this spring.
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    Italian quail? Who has them and how do they compare?

    Have an Italian gold roo that looks just like the ones in Quaillady's pictures. Wonder how that happen.. He was likely one of those extra eggs. His body is pure straw color with no markings. Put him with my A&M girls add a little bator magic and pop 50% speckled gold and 40% fawn with lite...
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    whats your favriot quail ?

    Coturnix for sure with all the variety of color. Think I'm going to breed for a line of Jumbo Italians.
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    House Quail - Good Idea or not?

    .. you could reduce your cable bill as well. They are just fun to watch. The drama oh the drama...
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    House Quail - Good Idea or not?

    My goal was sustainable eggs and some meat in an urban enivironment. I agree about remembering to take out the trash. Open the trash lid to put in the fourth day's daily changed newspapers and you are reminded it is time to compost them. (or if composting is not an option to remove the...
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    Japanese Coturnix Quail Color Varieties!!!!

    In Katie Thear's book the Manchurian Golds and Italians are refer to as being the same but your pictures show that is not so. Is it true the Manchurians were developed in the US by Marsh Farms? Do they both have a lethal gene? Breed an Italian Gold male that hatched from Stellar eggs to 7...
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    Flighty Quail

    Lost one more this morning. No picking - Looked crushed. They are just a month old. Some of the faces seem whiter but not sure which are female yet. How old do bobs need to be to sex? Seen some of the bobs use the auto waterer. But after watching the coturnix chicks come a running to the...
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    Breeding my quail.

    Have a golden roo with 7 Texas A&M hens. None of the chicks are white. At two weeks my golden aggies look to be a mix of brown, fawn and golden.
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    Flighty Quail

    Got 7 Butlers now! Lost one day... They are just over a month old. For two days they have been fine under 17 hours of white light. It was easier to have them in the quail room with the coturnix. I know that they stressed out today while I was installing a new water line for the two week...
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    Let's plan a Quail egg hatch... set 'em Sept. 1, hatch 'em Sept 17-19+

    I'm in with Jumbo Browns should get 14 to 20 eggs ready and have the bator freed up. Two brown hens are both laying every day plus an extra now and again. Just put bob bird, jumbo brown and mix (A&M / golden) eggs in the bator last night. Can bob birds reproduce? What does a golden aggie...
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    Bobwhite chicks picking on each other...help

    What a difference the red light makes? They even walk from point A to point B. Anyone tried rose colored glasses on mature bobs?
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    Bobwhite chicks picking on each other...help

    Lost the one. Moved the remaining raptors to a dark corner of the basement. BONUS - I can now slip up on them without the flight of chicks. Hey - They must be good eating... - "Sometimes if we don't laugh we cry.."
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    I am new to quail. To they have a high ammonia smell

    Read the same posts about raising them outside. We are trying a little urban homesteading. Have had 13 to 23 in the basement since spring. Coturnix are mature and laying now. Raising them in the basement with newspaper lined drop tray below cages. As long as paper is replaced daily no...
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    Bobwhite chicks picking on each other...help

    Will move them to the basement this evening. My best hatch rate yet - 75% and for mail order. Wow! Only hope for that rate from my conturnix eggs going into the bator tonight. Many thanks.
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    Bobwhite chicks picking on each other...help

    I had a great butler hatch! Had 9 chicks in a 3' x 2' box. They started hatching Sunday but most on Monday so 5 days old. Yesterday one's rear was pecked to the point of being bloody. Think it was the last to hatch on Tuesday. Removed that one to a single small box. Today it seems to not...
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    strange acting quail

    Coturnix... Hum. It's my bob bird roo that does that. None of the other coturnix Roos do it.
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    Butchering Quail

    8+ weeks ago the eggs went into the incubator. 80% of the hens laid today. Dressed my first roo tonight. He is chilling in ice water now. Sad but that and eggs are why I got they. 3 to many Roos left. Glad I found the gal at TSC to buy 6 of them.
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    I'm Going For It Bob-Bird Time!

    Bob bird roo crouchs down his body, lifts up his head and grr's when I approach the cage. It's like a rattlesnake warning without the fear of the bite. Do bob whites make this display? Coturnix Roos do nothing like this. Have a set of Stromberg bob birds in a cage session by themselves. Will...
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    gqf water cups

    First two batches of coturnix quail are 5 weeks old today. Build two cages to fix into my GQF rack this weekend and installed the GQF water cups. Over the weekend I have been able to check the water levels but now it's Monday. Any hints on training the little pea brains to peck the yellow...
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