➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CoturnixComplex]

Do you think if they were just out together from the start the fertility might not drop? Since he will have had them all along instead of having “new” girls all of a sudden?

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Maybe! Won't know till you try it.

 

[sarabeth485]

How do I tell if my eggs are shrink wrapped and what do I do about it?

 

[mixedUPturk]

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Maybe! Won't know till you try it.

Still on the same page every bird is different and where you have had success watching them carefully in pairs ive had trouble down to those ratios. Im looking forward to these youngins i have growing out for adding to my hen population as well as the next hatchers. The ones after that will be for sales.

 

[muddy75]

we tried to “kill” ourselves yesterday again thinking we could get stuff done and go out to “play” today (boat or jet ski at camper)
Oldest “mini” starts last year of his degree at the end of the month so in addition to usual friday errands and chores we washed and waxed his car, and DH truck. I did groceries and RK errands while they did oil change, fuel, and other maintenance.
needless to say we have barely made it off the couch today!! hoping to do some “leisurely” work on aviary and rabbit houses today and tomorrow in addition to R&R by the pool
culled a “runt” today from last quail hatch so at 10 + 7B so far for August

 

[ShrekDawg]

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Maybe! Won't know till you try it.

Still on the same page every bird is different and where you have had success watching them carefully in pairs ive had trouble down to those ratios. Im looking forward to these youngins i have growing out for adding to my hen population as well as the next hatchers. The ones after that will be for sales.

Thank you both! Very helpful. Lots to think about haha

What I do know is I need to find some spare wood ASAP or buy some and start building.

Have a huge roll of hardware cloth haha

 

[mixedUPturk]

How do I tell if my eggs are shrink wrapped and what do I do about it?

The membrane would be yellowish if its been stuck for awhile you could oil it up with coconut oil or painmed Free antibiotic ointment

 

[ShrekDawg]

we tried to “kill” ourselves yesterday again thinking we could get stuff done and go out to “play” today (boat or jet ski at camper)
Oldest “mini” starts last year of his degree at the end of the month so in addition to usual friday errands and chores we washed and waxed his car, and DH truck. I did groceries and RK errands while they did oil change, fuel, and other maintenance.
needless to say we have barely made it off the couch today!! hoping to do some “leisurely” work on aviary and rabbit houses today and tomorrow in addition to R&R by the pool
culled a “runt” today from last quail hatch so at 10 + 7B so far for August

Awww sounds like you deserve the break!!! That’s sort of how I was the other day. I didn’t do as much work as that obviously but I was outside for hours, no phone, doing a lot of hard physical work, like scooping and shoveling shavings from behind the coop (A LOT had built up and because it was over time, most had packed down and required digging), filled a few barrels and then they were too heavy to move by myself, spread a few bags of potting soil on half the garden, sorted through some stuff around the coop and made a pile of stuff to throw out, watered the garden, etc., I got a lot done, at least for me, and also had the chickens out all that time, and also did A LOT of running (full on sprinting) away from wasps and bees so lots of cardio too, oh and dragged/moved/lifted 2 bags of oyster shell (50 lb each) and one bag of grit (25 lb) from behind the coop into the storage shed, and moved them out of my way before that so I could shovel.

So anyway, it’s not much work by most standards but to me it was a lot, so the next day I had grand plans to go finish scooping shavings and put hardware cloth up along the chicken run finally or fence the garden in or at least do a ton of cleaning and organizing inside but I could barely get out of bed at first did manage to get a few things accomplished though and today I’m much better but I was soooo sore (still am but better) I couldn’t move lol in fact, even that night, after I came in, I could barely make myself go to the store to get dinner. kept collapsing into chairs.

For clarification: I have been trying to be more productive lately and get a lot of stuff done but I’m not used to that at all let alone physical labor like that so it wore me out haha

Finally ready to go again though lol

Anyway, not to derail, but just that I too wore myself out and way overworked myself, and had to recover ha

Back to quail: speaking of that hardware cloth, I think I have enough to make several cages.

Just need the wood.

 

[muddy75]

Awww sounds like you deserve the break!!! That’s sort of how I was the other day. I didn’t do as much work as that obviously but I was outside for hours, no phone, doing a lot of hard physical work, like scooping and shoveling shavings from behind the coop (A LOT had built up and because it was over time, most had packed down and required digging), filled a few barrels and then they were too heavy to move by myself, spread a few bags of potting soil on half the garden, sorted through some stuff around the coop and made a pile of stuff to throw out, watered the garden, etc., I got a lot done, at least for me, and also had the chickens out all that time, and also did A LOT of running (full on sprinting) away from wasps and bees so lots of cardio too, oh and dragged/moved/lifted 2 bags of oyster shell (50 lb each) and one bag of grit (25 lb) from behind the coop into the storage shed, and moved them out of my way before that so I could shovel.

So anyway, it’s not much work by most standards but to me it was a lot, so the next day I had grand plans to go finish scooping shavings and put hardware cloth up along the chicken run finally or fence the garden in or at least do a ton of cleaning and organizing inside but I could barely get out of bed at first did manage to get a few things accomplished though and today I’m much better but I was soooo sore (still am but better) I couldn’t move lol in fact, even that night, after I came in, I could barely make myself go to the store to get dinner. kept collapsing into chairs.

For clarification: I have been trying to be more productive lately and get a lot of stuff done but I’m not used to that at all let alone physical labor like that so it wore me out haha

Finally ready to go again though lol

Anyway, not to derail, but just that I too wore myself out and way overworked myself, and had to recover ha

Back to quail: speaking of that hardware cloth, I think I have enough to make several cages.

Just need the wood.

glad you are better! and as someone who has shoveled out the build-up in a coop/run.....that’s one of the toughest jobs ever!!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

glad you are better! and as someone who has shoveled out the build-up in a coop/run.....that’s one of the toughest jobs ever!!!

Thank you! It definitely was not easy! Haha especially since I started out thinking I could use like this grain? Shovel we have, snow shovel? Idk, I think it’s for grain, big and wide and deep and square so I thought I could get a lot of shavings at once, which i could, but it’s dull/flat on the end so I had to push really hard to get it to go into the shavings. Finally after many loads like that I gave up and got a real shovel to dig down lol and alternated between loosening it with that and getting bigger loads with the other shovel. It took forever!! I filled like 3 trash barrels haha still need to figure out how to move them, they are SO heavy. Didn’t really think of that beforehand.

It had built up a ton behind the coop cause they always fall out of the coop and stuff whenever I open the big people door and usually I am more on top of it and clean it every so often but I haven’t done it in a while cause I decided I didn’t really mind it. But it was getting to where it was blocking the door from shutting right and I had to kick it out of the way every time, and the chipmunks love it, and plus my moms family is all coming down for the wedding next month and it looks like poop so I wanted to have it all cleaned up! Haha need to do something with the run too. Maybe not digging though. Maybe just add some leaves on top or something ha it’s all dirt so want it to look nicer. Also, that said, I have also gotten the real shovel and dig down/flipped huge sections of the run too. Not the other day but I do that fairly regularly so they can have fun scratching through it. That is a lot of work too. But yeah, between all the shoveling and the running I was drenched in sweat lol

 

[muddy75]

Of course as soon as we got everything together and came out to hang by the pool a thunderstorm popped up!! We just sat under the umbrellas and watched the birds doing their “rain dances” weather just cleared and I got some pics of our “improvements”