➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[mixedUPturk]

Hello all, I am happy to here and will be learning how to work this site in the next few weeks. Then we will do something just for all of you. Maybe a giveaway, a Q&A OR MAYBE EVEN AN AUCTION.

were glad to have you, and so looking forward to the knowledge you can share with us! Giveaways are fun but around here we hunger for the knowledge you might need to make a thread to properly store it for the whole community all in one place

 

[duluthralphie]

were glad to have you, and so looking forward to the knowledge you can share with us! Giveaways are fun but around here we hunger for the knowledge you might need to make a thread to properly store it for the whole community all in one place

Here is where I store my knowledge and spread it around ...

 

[007Sean]

Here is where I store my knowledge and spread it around ...

why do I not doubt this!

 

[mixedUPturk]

It snowed here last year!
It even stuck to the ground for more than 5 minutes.

I could believe it after the winter before last it snowed Twice here in one winter for the First time ever and it also Stucklast winter here was mild though just like 3 nights and one day below freezing.

It's a Texas Chestnut bellied Blue Scale quail. Its sitting in a huisache, pronounced, weesatch tree or shrub. I have a few huisaches in my pens, they were introduced to South Texas, back in the dustbowl days, because it survives on very little water and cattle, deer, sheep, goats can eat the tiny leaves, when there is no grasses or forbs to eat and have a great amount of protein for the size of the leaves.
ETA - also known by locals as a 'Yellow berry' tree, because of the yellow flowers.

Shes beautiful! I jus read they actually like to be in small coveys over winter. i thought all new world quail liked to be kept in pairs. do they still pair off for breeding season? Very interesting historical tidbit about the shrub, i think it framed that pic perfectly! Some of your photography skilz coming out harder for them to kill desert shrubs eh?

 

[mixedUPturk]

Here is where I store my knowledge and spread it around ...

 

[BantyChooks]

Here is where I store my knowledge and spread it around ...

Yep, all of yours is definitely contained in there...

 

[007Sean]

I could believe it after the winter before last it snowed Twice here in one winter for the First time ever qnd it also Stucklast winter here was mild though just like 3 nights and one day below freezing.



Shes beautiful! I jus read they actually like to be in small coveys over winter. i thought all new world quail liked to be kept in pairs. do they still pair off for breeding season? Very interesting historical tidbit about the shrub, i think it framed that pic perfectly! Some of your photography skilz coming out harder for them to kill deser shrubs eh?

I usually run about 30 birds to a pen. They sometimes pair up, other times they all just mingle together. In the wild they do pair up in the spring.

Sometimes I've watched deer, stand at one huisache tree for over an hour, eating the tiny leaves (leaf size about 3/16" by 1/8" ). It's very hard to kill, even root plowing won't kill it, unless you also spray it with a brush killer.

 

[mixedUPturk]

I usually run about 30 birds to a pen. They sometimes pair up, other times they all just mingle together. In the wild they do pair up in the spring.

Sometimes I've watched deer, stand at one huisache tree for over an hour, eating the tiny leaves (leaf size about 3/16" by 1/8" ). It's very hard to kill, even root plowing won't kill it, unless you also spray it with a brush killer.

How neat! Mentally adding them to a (long) list of birds id like to try if i was allowed to have more pens or breeds. Might even scratch the Cochins soon.

 

[007Sean]

How neat! Mentally adding them to a (long) list of birds id like to try if i was allowed to have more pens or breeds. Might even scratch the Cochins soon.

They are fairly easy to hatch/ raise. They will mix with Bobwhites too! Although, I haven't had a cross between the two survive more than a week, I have seen other peeps crosses that looked like a Bob but lighter colored than a normal Bob, grayish/blue instead of brown and chestnut with Bob markings and had top knots like the Blues.

 

[ShrekDawg]

From the cold, mostly. I'll see what I've got in my folder.

Ah okay I don’t think it gets that cold here. Currently low 70s and EXTREMELY humid/muggy.

It's blurry, but this is a cockerel from this spring. He's got a broader build and more down than pure OEGBs.
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He’s beautiful

The yankees make me wanna pull some s out. Weak!? Ha! You go do my hour long feed up in 110*F sun and we'll see whos weak. Over 100 every day for 2 months (our heat wave is finally! breaking!) but i havent lost a single bird to it cuz my southies know how to take it. Ship me up north where it freezes for weeks and id die too.

I would die in that! I’m very sensitive to the heat and get dehydrated and/or migraines really fast and it doesn’t even get that hot here compared to you! Usually 80s or sometimes 90s a few days here and there. This year was pretty mild. But then again this September has been crazy warm too. A lot of 70s and sunny. Even today it is like 76 and so humid and I’m sweating my ass off

It had cooled down some recently so this is unexpected and I’m roasting. But at least it is cloudy/rainy lol

Do you have regular blood, or do you have lava in your veins??

She must!!

Pink lava.

How do you know this? Have you injured her? Cut her open? Do you have pink lava too?

Oh, I wasn't implying that 20 miles is far. That's a pretty normal commute, maybe even a little short for around here. There are a lot of people who commute from my town to San Francisco every day and that's more than twice the distance.


It takes a certain discipline to work from home. I did it for a couple of years and I loved it, but I had a dedicated home office and I considered my "commute" to be from my bedroom to the office. If you're the type to get easily distracted by the things you have at home, telecommuting is not for you.

Ahh okay, sorry, thought you were saying it was haha

And that makes sense! Thanks! I would definitely have a designated office if I did it but this is all just hypothetical. I don’t even know what I’d want to do or what kind of things are possible from home or whatever.

But I do know my dad and my SIL both work from home and it’s a lot of work. They both have good/big jobs though so it’s probably more so than some but still. I bet any job is a lot of work. They’re always pretty stressed out haha and travel a lot. Or sometimes. Idk. It’s definitely doesn’t seem easy but then I didn’t expect it to be. Just figured it would be easier than commuting. But they both travel and also are always on conference calls. I HATE talking on the phone unless it’s to like a really close friend but even then I don’t love it and rarely do it so I’m not sure working from home would be for me for that reason alone haha

Nah.



Probably is pink tho because if u dont drink 4 bottles of water /day then it turns to paste and i get a headache.

I get headaches so easily it’s ridiculous. not even just heat either, I’ve had one every single day for like a week and a half at least