➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[007Sean]

my new “routine” is to keep in the brooder until 3-4 weeks depending on breed and weather and then move them in with the buttons for 1-2 weeks. That gives a look/no touch situation prior to integration. It has worked with the quail and ducks so far. I’ve determined that Gimpy is not the typical male pheasant as he is the one that has escaped multiple times and returned every time. the last 2x he never left the yard. now he has basically become “guardian” of the flock. i’ve been a bit surprised that even though I only have the 1 hen, she is not “overbred” and i haven’t witnessed him “molesting” the quail or ducks since he’s matured.

Theres always that 'oddball'!

 

[sarabeth485]

 

[FortCluck]

you may find it interesting to watch myshire colors and genetics videos on youtube. The colors don’t “hatch true” so with most hatches, you will get a certain percentage of “base colors” the dotted white is a recessive white or english white with a single dot of color on its head (usually brown). It is also the coloration of a texas a&m quail. if it has a dot and coloring on the back not extending down the wings, then it’s a panda......if the color covers the back and wings with yellow breast then tuxedo, and if just a small band of white on breast then it’s bibbed. none of these are feather-sexable

Hmmm definitely not a color I ordered. Glad these aren't Myshires though.

I can't wait until this snowy gets bigger so I can see how pretty she will be. I'm hoping it's a she. I do believe the dark one is a male just a hunch I have.

 

[muddy75]

Hmmm definitely not a color I ordered. Glad these aren't Myshires though.

I can't wait until this snowy gets bigger so I can see how pretty she will be. I'm hoping it's a she. I do believe the dark one is a male just a hunch I have.

You should be able to confirm the sex of the dark one at 3-4 weeks....the snowy and the white will have to be either vent sexed at 6ish weeks or wait for crow or laying to begin.....sometimes body shape, size, and behavior gives clues but not 100%

 

[FortCluck]

You should be able to confirm the sex of the dark one at 3-4 weeks....the snowy and the white will have to be either vent sexed at 6ish weeks or wait for crow or laying to begin.....sometimes body shape, size, and behavior gives clues but not 100%

Okay thank you. When can you take them off heat. I just have them inside in a storage bin with a brooder plate. They rarely are under it. I shut it off during the day and only put it on at night since they stopped going under it after a week.

They're so little and love to run up to my hand to nuzzle it. I call them little weirdos

 

[Nabiki]

No seat belts!?

Now it’s the total opposite and the car yells at you if you don’t put it on.

My new one doesn’t shut up. The old one did after a few minutes. This one won’t until you put it on no matter how long it takes. And it turns your music way down too until you do it. Seriously annoying. I usually do always put it on but I’ve tested it before to see.

Last February one of my former students got into an accident. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt, his passenger was. He's dead, the passenger had minor injuries.

Don't you have to wear it in MA. NH is the only state I've been in that doesn't require it and most accidents are fatal Same as wear a helmet on a motorcycle, NH doesn't require it. I'm glad I moved out of that state. You literally Live Free and Die when you live there...

I rode a motorcycle for a long time. I always wore full protective gear. The one day I thought about not wearing all of it because it was hot, I did it anyways and that was the day an idiot pulled out in front of me and totaled my bike. I walked away.

Seat belts didn't become standard equipment until legislation was passed in 1972. And back then they were only lap seat belts.

My first car was a '63 Dodge Dart with push button transmission. It also only had lap seat belts.

 

[FortCluck]

Last February one of my former students got into an accident. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt, his passenger was. He's dead, the passenger had minor injuries.

I rode a motorcycle for a long time. I always wore full protective gear. The one day I thought about not wearing all of it because it was hot, I did it anyways and that was the day an idiot pulled out in front of me and totaled my bike. I walked away.

My first car was a '63 Dodge Dart with push button transmission. It also only had lap seat belts.

That's scary.

I'm sorry about your motorcycle. We want to get one, but I will not ride on the highway in VA with one. Too many people don't pay attention. I'll ride on the country roads though.

 

[Nabiki]

That's scary.

I'm sorry about your motorcycle. We want to get one, but I will not ride on the highway in VA with one. Too many people don't pay attention. I'll ride on the country roads though.

It was brand new too. I'd had it for less than 4 months. I got it fixed up anyways and rode it for 12 more years.

 

[muddy75]

Okay thank you. When can you take them off heat. I just have them inside in a storage bin with a brooder plate. They rarely are under it. I shut it off during the day and only put it on at night since they stopped going under it after a week.

They're so little and love to run up to my hand to nuzzle it. I call them little weirdos

Typically at 3 weeks can remove heat and prepare for outside....

 

[FortCluck]

It was brand new too. I'd had it for less than 4 months. I got it fixed up anyways and rode it for 12 more years.

When I was going to work one day I had some type of feeling that I should watch this motorcyclist that was in front of us. He looked like a new rider so I continued to watch him at the red light when we got the green light he started going and a car ran through the red light and hit him my friend threw the car in park and we immediately went to help him. Luckily he was only very shook up, but nothing else. He flew about 8 ft in the air.