➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Maiahr]

@Texas Kiki isn't the dark a Tibetan/Rosetta?

 

[Kiki]

@muddy75 what's the advantage of raising buttons? I've read they lay less eggs and are smaller in size than Coturnix. Is that true?

They are just cute house pets.

 

[Kiki]

@Texas Kiki isn't the dark a Tibetan/Rosetta?

This dark one is what I've been calling a Rosetta.

I didn't get pic of the other dark color today but I will tomorrow.


I still don't know what color is what.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Quail are so adorable

 

[Kiki]

@Texas Kiki isn't the dark a Tibetan/Rosetta?

I take that back I did get a picture of the other dark one.
This is the one I have been calling a Tibetan.

 

[RUNuts]

I think I have probably sold/given away/eaten/retired without breeding closer to 70-80% even. I bought birds/eggs from like 6 sources total, bred them all, evaluated offspring, retired a bunch, and am down to probably 4 birds, their offspring, and some new acquisitions (who will probably get pared down to 1-3 again) in my breeding pens. It is not an efficient process but the results are very satisfying!

Intriguing comment. One I've considered too. Other breeders will give different gene pool and hopefully strengthen the lines. Or cull the first and try the second without crossing. I'm learning here. Quail generations are much shorter than chicken generations. Good practice & diversion?

I did jump in this quick. And I do like learning. Hands on is best, of course. Thank you for the comments.

I shall now ponder, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore

 

[Kiki]

See this one weird feather on the light thing?
I just noticed it for the first time today.

 

[muddy75]

@muddy75 what's the advantage of raising buttons? I've read they lay less eggs and are smaller in size than Coturnix. Is that true?

the buttons were just an addition to my “addiction” they are just my “housepets” i hatched a batch early this year that left me with a single male.....this batch was intended to give him a mate for when I had to bring him inside for winter. Unfortunately, he was killed by a predator a couple days before these hatched

 

[RUNuts]

I take that back I did get a picture of the other dark one.
This is the one I have been calling a Tibetan.
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Which is your favorite now?

 

[Kiki]

Which is your favorite now?

I like that dark dark one, the big dark one and the red one.

And I like the two regular girls and the Falb Fee girl.