➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[ShrekDawg]

Wasnt an accident but more of a long running joke. If that guy ever gets online again he will find 3 million times people used his name to cuss

Ohhhh okay!! That is actually hilarious.

 

[Sara L]

I'm guessing grain mites.

I sprayed myself with permethrin first, the my car and then the two bags.

I put them both in a container and outside for now.
I'm returning them both tomorrow.

If you have a big enough freezer, you could freeze the feed for a few weeks and that should kill the bugs. Extra protein.

 

[Maiahr]

@CoturnixComplex did you say 17grams on a quail eggs? This is huge! Is this from a Jumbo?
I again lost two quail yesterday from a dog attack.. my only Pharaoh hen and a white Jumbo male whose body I still cannot find anywhere in the garden After the first attack we made sure the dog is properly punished and kept closed, but yesterday he opened both his door and the quail cages.. argh.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

@CoturnixComplex did you say 17grams on a quail eggs? This is huge! Is this from a Jumbo?
I again lost two quail yesterday from a dog attack.. my only Pharaoh hen and a white Jumbo male whose body I still cannot find anywhere in the garden After the first attack we made sure the dog is properly punished and kept closed, but yesterday he opened both his door and the quail cages.. argh.

I'm so sorry about your birds Silly dogs.

Yep! They are massive. She and her two sisters are my best layers. Mom is from jumbo stock but only lays ~14 g eggs (still the best of my early stock). Dad is Grandpappy Charcoal <-- I wish I'd kept all of their daughters, but of the ones I do have one lays ~15-16 g eggs and two lay ~16-17 g ones. They are getting bred back to both dad and a son this fall. I'm really hoping for some nice babies from their mom and my silver male before I retire them too.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I really like making my fancy critter breeding projects way too involved and complex, to the point that I never finish them because it would take decades. When it was fish it was alpha sailfin lyretail swordtails. With bunnies it is broken blue rex-coated mandolin semi-giants. Now I am also dreaming of jumbo curly-feathered celadon auto-sexing roux-charcoal quail.

@James Marie did a great write-up on fb I liked that addressed this and other breeding considerations that I would love him to post here (I would've commented straight on it, Robbie, but I don't have a fb! It is great. I feel like there's a marked lack in detailed, quail-specific breeding advice out there compared to other critters and I'm thrilled with everyone helping to change that).

Like I said to Turk earlier, I have acquired a lot of breeding techniques over the decades (that can't be true) I've been breeding critters, but I've always had too much species ADD to ever really accomplish much other than multiplying neat things and passing them along. Which can still be great - propagating endangered bettas was amazing! - but making it to the 3rd and 4th generation in a project and seeing consistent improvement is really satisfying.

I feel like I will probably breed quail and rabbits as long as we live here or somewhere similar. But, not going to lie - we ever get real land they are most likely going to get phased out for ducks and goats and teeny tiny cows.

 

[muddy75]

@CoturnixComplex.....the handmade paper pulp cartons sound like a cool idea, but in the meantime, the plastics that i got from zack do accommodate the larger eggs well. i will try to weigh some and take a pic for you. i actually like larger eggs in them as the small one are harder to take out when ready to use. Have you subscribed to the myshire you tube channel? the live today is more about genetics and with @Texas Kiki spreadsheet, I’m expecting it to be interesting!! should be 4pm your time??

 

[CoturnixComplex]

@CoturnixComplex.....the handmade paper pulp cartons sound like a cool idea, but in the meantime, the plastics that i got from zack do accommodate the larger eggs well. i will try to weigh some and take a pic for you. i actually like larger eggs in them as the small one are harder to take out when ready to use. Have you subscribed to the myshire you tube channel? the live today is more about genetics and with @Texas Kiki spreadsheet, I’m expecting it to be interesting!! should be 4pm your time??

I'm like an old person at heart and don't have a fb anymore and never remember youtube is a thing. But I need to watch more! My partner is the youtube dude; maybe I will make him watch quail videos with me in the mornings.

Oh good, give me more egg weights. I know Kiki's good about it too; I must go hunt among her posts also.

 

[Kiki]

If you have a big enough freezer, you could freeze the feed for a few weeks and that should kill the bugs. Extra protein.

I did not think of this. Do you think it would take weeks though or would a day or two be long enough?

I really don't want to mess with having to return them today only to get more bag with bugs. The whole lot of bags probably all have them, I think.

So I'm wondering if I should just buy some DE??

 

[Kiki]

I'm like an old person at heart and don't have a fb anymore and never remember youtube is a thing. But I need to watch more! My partner is the youtube dude; maybe I will make him watch quail videos with me in the mornings.

Oh good, give me more egg weights. I know Kiki's good about it too; I must go hunt among her posts also.

I need to start weighing my current eggs.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

buy some DE??