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The pic of the rooster? He wasn't being cooperative. That was the only picture that turned out not blurry. He is also a little bald because he is in the bachelor pen and they are a bit frustrated that they can't get at the females.

Ok, finally got pics, sorry it took so long. Female Male

I will see if my girls and rooster will be cooperative and let me take some pictures tonight for you to compare with. My silver pharoah are from eggs I got from Myshire Farms, although I have one or two from my own eggs.

Coloring looks like a silver pharoah, where silver color replaced the normal brown of the traditional pharoah. Should be able to sex it by chest feathers IF it doesn't have pied/tux mixed in, causing white breast feathers.

I would definitely call that one a jumbo, lol. The notes I have been trying to go by say jumbos should be 120-160 grams at 3 weeks, 200 grams at 4 weeks, 240 grams at 5 weeks, and 280 grams at 6 weeks.

Are you weighing or just going by visual? I've had birds that looked huge but weighed less than the ones that looked smaller. I hope this guy/gal? does turn out to be a jumbo and passes on those genetics. Most of the silvers I have are smaller, but they sure are pretty.

The silver color is incomplete dominant. So silver parents can have non-silver offspring but might have silver grandchildren. If you are trying to keep your colors separate you will need to track the family tree of your birds so you don't end up mixing colors.

I just set eggs last night, first time I'm trying the Listerine solution. It's also a fertility test since I switched up some of the groupings. Not adding any water until lockdown, right now the humidity is about 35%.

Did the green gunk possibly look like mold? I have had eggs with colored gunk inside because bacteria got into the eggs, or mold started growing. To prevent that I usually deepclean the incubator with bleach solution in between hatches, and only set eggs that are clean (no poop or other...

I aim for 99 F, so that would be around 37.2 C. If they mostly hatched on Day 19, you might try increasing the temperature a tiny bit. I usually wait about a day after the last ones have hatched, or day 20 and then examine the unhatched eggs to see if they are still alive or were duds. I take...

I think it depends on what temp you are incubating at and maybe even what strain of coturnix. Mine have been hatching at day 18 but online I keep seeing 16-18 days. My last hatch (about 5 days ago lol) they started hatching at 17.5 days and finished on day 18, all of those eggs were from a new...

Sounds like it should work, mine usually jump around between 25-40 humidity, depending on what the room is doing or how often I open the incubator. Find what works best for you and aim for that.

There are lots of reasons they might not have made it, but I had fewer fully developed chicks die without pipping with the dry hatch method than when adding water at the beginning. I think mine drowned or didn't have a big enough air cell, which can be caused by too much humidity during the...

I would have to find my incubator journal for specifics, but I got better hatches with this than with adding water at the beginning of the hatch. When I added water at the beginning of the hatch I ended up with a lot of chicks that were fully developed but didn't make the external pip. The only...

That is kind of what I do with my incubation. I don't add any water prior to lockdown, and my hygrometer (not calibrated, so is probably off a bit) says between 25-40 humidity. Then at lockdown I add water and try to get around 60-70 humidity. Seems to work pretty well.