➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CoturnixComplex]

my hatch from last week has several of those colors....myshire farm is source of my eggs.....really looking forward to seeing the different colors as they mature! the owner of the farm gave me a good idea of colors from chick pics.... I’m hoping to get decent weather to have tuxedo assortment of eggs shipped for valentines hatch!

Ooh, good luck! There are quite a few hatcheries that sell all/most of the colors still on my wish list, but after a terrible experience with one of them in late fall my emotional fortitude is too low for hatching shipped eggs again this soon, and I'm just going to wait for it to not be blizzard-ing first. Plus, I have some processing to do before I have space for a growout again!

 

[muddy75]

So far we have 53 chicks. 9 eggs still in the incubator. I need to get some turkey eggs in the incubator tomorrow, and it will have been 20 days for the quail eggs. I'm not certain what to do if there's still quail eggs waiting to hatch... The turkey eggs are cannot wait much longer though.
After this hatch, I realized I will not have quail eggs to incubate until March when these birds are able to lay eggs... And I will then have to plan hatches around my planned business travel. I'm traveling for a week per month for the foreseeable future starting in March (at least between March and September). I guess the turkey eggs will take up some of the time between now an March. I may have to order more quail eggs though or find a local supplier.

you’ve actually had an awesome hatch/survival rate so far especially for shipped eggs and first hatch!!! In my “limited” experience most of the splay/spraddle quail either get strong enough to survive or expire on their own. one of mine corrected on its own within first couple days and my little froggie just has minor curling now at 1 week that hasn’t slowed him down at all!! Luckily, I have only had to make the choice to cull with 1 newly hatched chick. And of course I have my 1 handicapped silkie that should have been culled and is now 6 months old!! Point being....don’t beat yourself up over it.....just learn from the experience and use your judgement as to quality of life etc in the choice of when to cull or when to attempt intervention for correction using the priceless help from all of the expert knowledge offered here.and most of all keep hatching!!

 

[igorsMistress]

Please please post them here.
We don't believe in hijacks.

Thanks Kiki, I'll post them here then

Do you think this is fertile? I tried my scissors, I like them, then we fried it

 

[BReeder!]

8 or 9 weeks seems like too long if they can't walk good, doesn't it?

That's if I am able to fix there legs. If their legs do not adjust well with braces of sports wrap then I will be forced to cull early - I feel it's inhumane to make them live handicapped and unable to walk to access food and water.
However, if their legs adjust with braces, I'll keep them until 8-9 weeks and cull for the freezer or keep the females as egg layers, but I will not hatch their eggs.

 

[Kiki]

That's if I am able to fix there legs. If their legs do not adjust well with braces of sports wrap then I will be forced to cull early - I feel it's inhumane to make them live handicapped and unable to walk to access food and water.
However, if their legs adjust with braces, I'll keep them until 8-9 weeks and cull for the freezer or keep the females as egg layers, but I will not hatch their eggs.

Oh ok...I didn't read that right.
I thought you meant that you would let them live with silly legs until then.
I missed the fixing them part, my bad.

 

[BReeder!]

Thanks Kiki, I'll post them here then

Do you think this is fertile? I tried my scissors, I like them, then we fried it
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I zoomed in a bit. I think there may be a bulls eye. It's a faint ring around the white spot. Quite a bit of glare from your lighting and it's a bit far from the egg. A picture closer to the white spot with less glare would be better if you crack another one.
Fried quail egg... yum! small, but delicious. They are the silver dollars of the egg world.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Thanks Kiki, I'll post them here then

Do you think this is fertile? I tried my scissors, I like them, then we fried it
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That looks fertile to me but definitely take the full panel input lol.

I am also about to be in the fertility testing phase for all six of my breeding groups. Six boys as backup until I'm finished, two in the freezer this weekend. I think I'll take a few sample batches every week for the next ~6 weeks and average it out. All my hens are so young now that I want to give it a while before hatching any to work out any kinks.

I'm hijacking-by-example: this is my weirdest quail. Dunno his parentage, excited to see what he throws with just a wild-type female. This lighting kind of masks it but he's been almost marbled with red and charcoal patches since birth in addition to the rosetta lacing, very odd. He's a hatchmate of my avatar but all those eggs came from someone else. I wouldn't mind input on his color either if anyone's ever had something like him. Just deeming him a charcoal rosetta until proven otherwise. I'll have to see if I can get the lighting right to highlight the asymmetrical patches. He had wild dramatic eyeliner as a chick, too.

 

[igorsMistress]

I zoomed in a bit. I think there may be a bulls eye. It's a faint ring around the white spot. Quite a bit of glare from your lighting and it's a bit far from the egg. A picture closer to the white spot with less glare would be better if you crack another one.
Fried quail egg... yum! small, but delicious. They are the silver dollars of the egg world.

Yup, I agree the lighting was terrible! I'll check some more this weekend. Interesting flavor for sure, I'd never had them.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Although, interestingly, I should specify that I have yet another bird that's definitely a plain "charcoal rosetta", that doesn't and has never exhibited the same marbling, even as chicks. Remove the red patches from the above guy, and they're almost identical. They're both signifigantly more red than my avatar bird, but significantly less red than my former tibetan rosetta or any other red-based bird I've had.

 

[igorsMistress]

Although, interestingly, I should specify that I have yet another bird that's definitely a plain "charcoal rosetta", that doesn't and has never exhibited the same marbling, even as chicks. Remove the red patches from the above guy, and they're almost identical. They're both signifigantly more red than my avatar bird, but significantly less red than my former tibetan rosetta or any other red-based bird I've had.

What is the color of the bird in your avatar? Charcoal rosetta?