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Need to process some males, but hurricane #2 is coming my way and I may lose power. So it looks like they will enjoy another week on the patio. Glad they days are short and nobody's crowing.

Yeah, the neck makes me think roo, too. A couple speckles can go either way.

Peat from Canada is sustainable. Much more is formed per year than is harvested. https://growingfruit.org/t/peat-parts-of-the-peat-moss-story-are-seldom-heard/42249

What's your ambient temp? This hatch I left the heat lamp on for only 3 days because the house stays 80-82. Wonder if I need it at all.

5 out so far!

This is my first pen with a ramp.. it was free and I needed something temporary so I can take apart the pens that are moving with me. I stapled hardware cloth to the ramp. I've seen them both upstairs and down so they've figured it out.

I have contractors painting the house right now. Today one asked me if I ate quail eggs "con orange juice" which no, I have never heard of that before. Turns out it is a thing! https://lifeinmexicocity.wordpress.com/tag/quail-eggs-with-orange-juice/

Over the weekend I got my first egg of the year from the pens that have no supplemental light.

Do we all just have worse hatches in winter?

My new years hatch finished with more females than males for once, even if the last two rosettas are male (but I think I have 1 of each)!

Those of you who don't use supplemental light, when do your quail start laying in spring? Mine finally started molting and just about quit laying now that the lights have been off a few weeks.

I turned off the supplemental light on my quail because I have too many eggs. One week later, exactly one hen quit laying :idunnoI guess they think it's spring already? I like that they're listing egg/bird weight.

Mine have been outside since day 18. They got one night in the 50s to adjust, then down to the mid 40s - no problem. I thought I might be pushing my luck but they weren't huddling together at all.

The New Year's chicks aren't quite old enough to feather sex yet and one of them just made his first crow. So funny :lol: now if he crows in the morning too they are going outside pretty fast!

I candled before lockdown this time.. pulled out quite a few clears. I expected that because my Italian male has 12 hens AND he seems a bit clumsy :lol: but the ladies are patient, at least

If you're using plastic try mason jars instead. They've never been knocked over for me.

If so I think I need to update my guess for how many eggs set :lol:

Hmm, black is tibetan plus fee? Then I have a small chance of getting some in my new years hatch, from my pair of grau fees.

Processed round 1 of extra males, was about to include one who hurt his leg, but felt awfully heavy so I weighed him first - 320g at 6 weeks. No one else was over 250g! I took a better look at the leg but couldn't find anything wrong. He can eat, drink, and dust bathe but he's got a pretty bad...

Couldn't figure out which of the two grau fees was crowing, brought both inside yesterday but not a peep from either one. Today the smaller one casually mounted the only laying hen in the aviary while she was pecking aphids off of kale.. well thank you lol! I'm thinking the other grau fee is a...