➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Matieus27]

Yes...usually at 8 weeks although a few he a weigh at 10 weeks.
I'll be typing up my notes soon.

Where do I find your notes

 

[Kiki]

Where do I find your notes

I'll put the in post one of this thread as soon as I'm done.
I'll let you know when it happens.

 

[Matieus27]

I'll put the in post one of this thread as soon as I'm done.
I'll let you know when it happens.

Ok thank you

 

[muddy75]

So I’ve been falling behind in posts and then playing catch up here and there. Lots of things keeping me preoccupied in the real world.

I’m super jealous of everyone still hatching on here but have packed it up for the winter myself. The temps are getting down in the 20s here and I’m a fair weather quail farmer at best.

We culled the covey down to 12 for the winter, put up a wind block, added lights on a timer and hung a new heated waterer. Hopefully maintenance will be minimal this winter since I do deep bedding. If the weather is too extreme I could always cull and start over in the spring. We’ll see.

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with just 12 in a cage, you can also consider adding a cozy coop flat panel heater if necessary....
we are panicking right now too as winter set in about a month or so earlier than we planned.....lows supposed to be below freezing most days between now and April!!
we butchered 5 today and hoping to do 5 more each day until I get numbers down enough.....(first really bad day is thursday because rain all day and them plummets to 19 for the low)

 

[muddy75]

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is this a pansy?

italian or golden manchurian (both very similar colors)

 

[Pennys Mama]

Yeah, wasn’t necessarily saying it was true, just what it said.
I don’t really believe it either. Seems a bit crazy.
And that article is also over 20 years old (1997) so I’m sure if it was true, they would have figured it out and been rich by now.

There's so much to read out there about hatching & incubating, hard to know what to believe & what not, right? Roosters would be near extinction by now if it were true, at least in the backyard chicken business.

I think I’m turning into a hatching addict too

I think that makes ALOT of us!!!
Admitting you have a problem is the 1st step in getting better!

I very much doubt the quail will even notice whether they’re living on a slope. Great setup!

I don't know, it looked like they were running down hill half of the time, and uphill the other half. I think I saw them circulating a petition for signatures for better living conditions!

As soon as I turned the little buggers lose in their new pen a bully showed its ugly little face, I slapped it in an isolation pen for a few hours. When I returned the little bugger it was on its bestest behavior. There are 9 per pen, 4' x 2'6". They act like they've never seen so much room. The 2 groups only have a piece of hardware cloth between them so they can become familiar with each other a bit too I suppose. I've got some artificial ivy to go in there too, and I need to figure out something for hides. Any ideas?

Anymore guesses on color varieties, now that they're older, 3 weeks old now?[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]

 

[ShrekDawg]

@Cedar Creek Farm Lady yes! So hard to tell. Figured this wasn’t true but the science seemed so real. But yes! Exactly!! If it was possible, the industry would have already taken full advantage of it!!

And very true!! Funny thing is I haven’t even hatched yet but I got eggs arriving this week and I’m so dang excited already and already planning future hatches.

Chicken not quail but those are next lol

 

[ShrekDawg]

ALSO.

There was literally someone playing Pokémon Go at this show and I thought of @Texas Kiki and @Nabiki

Literally in the middle of the set too

 

[muddy75]

There's so much to read out there about hatching & incubating, hard to know what to believe & what not, right? Roosters would be near extinction by now if it were true, at least in the backyard chicken business.


I think that makes ALOT of us!!!
Admitting you have a problem is the 1st step in getting better!


I don't know, it looked like they were running down hill half of the time, and uphill the other half. I think I saw them circulating a petition for signatures for better living conditions!

As soon as I turned the little buggers lose in their new pen a bully showed its ugly little face, I slapped it in an isolation pen for a few hours. When I returned the little bugger it was on its bestest behavior. There are 9 per pen, 4' x 2'6". They act like they've never seen so much room. The 2 groups only have a piece of hardware cloth between them so they can become familiar with each other a bit too I suppose. I've got some artificial ivy to go in there too, and I need to figure out something for hides. Any ideas?
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Anymore guesses on color varieties, now that they're older, 3 weeks old now?

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as far as hideaways, you can make/repurpose some from dollar store baskets or buckets, flower pots are a good thing too! as for colors....basically same as chick guesses....scarlets, scarlet and rosetta tuxes, dotted white, rosetta, pharaohs, 1 egyptian, silvers, tibetan......very nice variety! you should be able to feather-sex the egyptian and the pharaohs.....the others will be a few more weeks before you can vent-sex

 

[Pennys Mama]

@Cedar Creek Farm Lady yes! So hard to tell. Figured this wasn’t true but the science seemed so real. But yes! Exactly!! If it was possible, the industry would have already taken full advantage of it!!

And very true!! Funny thing is I haven’t even hatched yet but I got eggs arriving this week and I’m so dang excited already and already planning future hatches.

Chicken not quail but those are next lol

I had a couple bantams go back to back broody so I threw a bunch on our own eggs under them to stop them from hogging the nests. The 1st one is out there with 10 little buggers, the other is due to hatch early next week. Right in the middle of a nice cold spell! I need to build some more laying boxes.