➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[KikiLeigh02]

BUT but but...it's not good enough.
I need more of those question marks to be fertile.

Did you refridgerate any of these? (Just curious.)

 

[Kiki]

Did you refridgerate any of these? (Just curious.)

No I did not.
I will be trying that later in the year once my fertility is up.

 

[Kiki]

I can't be jacking with my eggs just yet. I need to make sure I can hatch more first.

 

[muddy75]

ok @Texas Kiki in light of your male quail issues, I thought you might enjoy this! Today as we were finishing rearrangement and run cleaning, Big Red (my silkie cockerel) attempted mating one of my laying hens (BA). The whole scene was pretty comical.....she may end up with some sticky back feathers but no danger of fertile eggs anytime soon! how do people end up with silkie crosses with standard hens??

 

[Kiki]

ok @Texas Kiki in light of your male quail issues, I thought you might enjoy this! Today as we were finishing rearrangement and run cleaning, Big Red (my silkie cockerel) attempted mating one of my laying hens (BA). The whole scene was pretty comical.....she may end up with some sticky back feathers but no danger of fertile eggs anytime soon! how do people end up with silkie crosses with standard hens??

I bet that was cute!

 

[RUNuts]

Since you have 8 hens and only one rooster, he may be shagged out. Or half the girls don't like him. LOL
The web is saying 1 roo to 2-3 hens for best fertility. Afraid you may have harvested too many roosters.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Since you have 8 hens and only one rooster, he may be shagged out. Or half the girls don't like him. LOL
The web is saying 1 roo to 2-3 hens for best fertility. Afraid you may have harvested too many roosters.

Or kept too many hens since she didn’t have a separate pen to keep another breeding group.

 

[007Sean]

Or kept too many hens since she didn’t have a separate pen to keep another breeding group.

With most breeds it's easier to get a rooster than a hen. Most breeders don't want to give up hens....the more egg machines you have the better the odds of having fertile eggs, even with only one rooster per ten hens. But it does depend on available space. IMHO, can't have too many hens.
Most peeps don't like aggressive roosters, I do, they tend to have a higher fertility rate than non-aggressive roosters.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

With most breeds it's easier to get a rooster than a hen. Most breeders don't want to give up hens....the more egg machines you have the better the odds of having fertile eggs, even with only one rooster per ten hens. But it does depend on available space. IMHO, can't have too many hens.

I agree that’s why we have 20+ hens and one rooster, but I meant at the time was when she didn’t have enough space available to keep another rooster to stay in line with the typical 1:3 ratio of quail rooster to quail hens without any fighting. So if she had wanted to stay in that range then she would have had to remove some of the hens too.

 

[007Sean]

I agree that’s why we have 20+ hens and one rooster, but I meant at the time was when she didn’t have enough space available to keep another rooster to stay in line with the typical 1:3 ratio of quail rooster to quail hens without any fighting. So if she had wanted to stay in that range then she would have had to remove some of the hens too.

Ok, gotcha!