➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Nabiki]

i believe that bobs can be sexed by the feathers on their head?? I personally have zero experience with bobs, but @007Sean and others may be better able to answer that question. The “blue egg” chick will be a carrier of celadon gene and if female may or may not lay celadon eggs. I have hatched a few but do not know which chicks were from those eggs as they can basically be any color and get “lost” in large hatches.

That's why I put a leg ring on the one that I had come out of a celadon egg. I'm hoping it's a hen.

 

[muddy75]

the net arrived today!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Bobwhites are sexed by feather color. Males will have black/dark brown and white heads with a black eye stripe. Females will have a buff colored head. Buff colored eye stripe. Body feathers are the same for both sexes.
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Gorgeous picture!!!

 

[RUNuts]

Good Morning beautiful peoples!

At 7AM had the slightest, gentlest pips on 2 eggs. No progress on those 2. And now the faintest of cracks on number 3. The fun has just begun. No chicks today though. That will be for tomorrow.

Today is only day 17.

Today we shall get the brooder ready.

 

[muddy75]

Soooo happy with the new net! A few finishing touches and no more worries of having to repair holes or losing birds!!! Even Mr. Gimpy dropped by to give his approval! Personally he’s enjoying his free-ranging complete with “playtime” with the little old ladies,cats,dogs etc chasing him around the neighborhood all day but he still comes to visit the girls and his buddies every night!.....we’ve left obvious holes for him to come back inside but he’s too “smart” for that!!!!......AND......quail love crunchy leaves!!!! We dropped a bunch that were stuck in the old netting and they had a ball playing in them today! DH says quail are basically like cats.....they have to get right in the middle of anything you are working on!!

 

[RUNuts]

Good Morning beautiful peoples!

At 7AM had the slightest, gentlest pips on 2 eggs. No progress on those 2. And now the faintest of cracks on number 3. The fun has just begun. No chicks today though. That will be for tomorrow.

Today is only day 17.

Today we shall get the brooder ready.

Good Night beautiful peoples!

No progress on the first 2 pips. None. Zilch. Nada.
#3 has poked through.
#4 has started.
Someone actually peeped at me. No clue who was screaming, but there is screaming. Always a good sign.

Incubator is still humming right along with good parameters.

 

[Pennys Mama]

Bobwhites are sexed by feather color. Males will have black/dark brown and white heads with a black eye stripe. Females will have a buff colored head. Buff colored eye stripe. Body feathers are the same for both sexes.
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I'm anxious with anticipation awaiting them feathering in fully. I can't wait to see how many little hens & roos I have!

 

[Pennys Mama]

That's why I put a leg ring on the one that I had come out of a celadon egg. I'm hoping it's a hen.

I didn't see which one came out of the blue egg unfortunately.

 

[Kiki]

Day 7
Still 2 good ones.
I am thinking only one hen in cage L is getting lucky.

The rest are
I might have four females in cage D.

 

[Nabiki]

I didn't see which one came out of the blue egg unfortunately.

It was this one.