➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[007Sean]

They're all from the same hatch. The one you pointed out is Gandalf, the pied one. Or, is it tuxedo in quail? I never can remember.
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Tuxedo

 

[BantyChooks]

Kiki, here's the one you were looking at. Her name is Bilbo.

 

[muddy75]

well i have good news, bad news, and really bad news....
My incubator arrived today and I was able to pick up my eggs at the post office where the postman left them inside safe and warm for me! (he was probably about to poo himself watching some crazy lady chase him down the block today in a robe and chicken boots! hahaha). We also spread crushed stone, pine chips, and sand in the run for the chickens/quail, built a new quail escape and bed from a plastic flower pot, and moved the Christmas chicks outside. Bad news is I had to cull my gimpy silkie today and and the really bad news is why I had to make that decision. I lost 2 more of my quail babies overnight to his flailing. So I’m now down to 11 survivors.

 

[Kiki]

Female triplet

Male
I think.

They hate me. They do not like their picture taken.

 

[Kiki]

Kiki, here's the one you were looking at. Her name is Bilbo.
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Wow she is light.

 

[BantyChooks]

I don't even know if you can see them, but this is the most recent picture I have of the quail. They're in the pen on the left. There's now one wild type (Pippin,) one tuxedo (Gandalf,) two of that pretty pinkish colour (Bilbo and Frodo,) and that red one Kiki liked, (Sam.)

 

[BantyChooks]

Female triplet
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Male
I think.
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They hate me. They do not like their picture taken.

Did you feed them miracle grow??

 

[BantyChooks]

Wow she is light.

I bred her and Bilbo for the batch I hatched this summer... unfortunately, I got three wild type, one like her, and the one red one. So her genetics aren't very dominant. As you can probably tell, I'm choosing my breeders by colour, lol.

 

[R2elk]

Female triplet
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Male
I think.
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They hate me. They do not like their picture taken.

What do you expect when you keep drooling over them and threatening to eat them?

 

[Kiki]

well i have good news, bad news, and really bad news....
My incubator arrived today and I was able to pick up my eggs at the post office where the postman left them inside safe and warm for me! (he was probably about to poo himself watching some crazy lady chase him down the block today in a robe and chicken boots! hahaha). We also spread crushed stone, pine chips, and sand in the run for the chickens/quail, built a new quail escape and bed from a plastic flower pot, and moved the Christmas chicks outside. Bad news is I had to cull my gimpy silkie today and and the really bad news is why I had to make that decision. I lost 2 more of my quail babies overnight to his flailing. So I’m now down to 11 survivors.

Oh no.
Wait...your silkie was killing your quail?
You house them together?