➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Alwaysfowlplay]

Alright 14, of The 18 have hatched. 2 of them were early quitters, I’m giving the last 2 eggs another day but they haven’t even internally pipped yet so not sure. Still I’m very happy with 14 of 16 hatching! These are the eggs from my original set from Kansas City quail that were shipped and I got 7 of 15 with 1 dying within a few days. So of the 14, 11 are perfectly healthy and strong, 3 have curled toes and splay leg, those 3 all had issues hatching and I helped 2 of them. All are hobbles and 2 have boots and 1 looks perfect now and the other 2 are improving!

My husband is so encouraging. Someone gave us a free incubator with egg turner that means we can hatch another 40 eggs at a time (120 if we get the quail rails, but I’ve heard jumbo eggs don’t fit as well in them). I said we’d need another brooder, husband said no problem! I said we’d need another quail house, husband said no problem! Enabler I tell you!

 

[Alwaysfowlplay]

Also, for anyone that processes their extra birds or rooster, what age or weight do you generally do it at?

 

[Nabiki]

Also, for anyone that processes their extra birds or rooster, what age or weight do you generally do it at?

I usually process mine at around 8 weeks. They could get bigger, but they're usually starting to fight around then so I just get it over with.

 

[Kiki]

 

[RUNuts]

Also, for anyone that processes their extra birds or rooster, what age or weight do you generally do it at?

Yep. 8 weeks. They are pretty much as large as they will get and are starting to cause issues.

 

[RUNuts]

3 hatchlings.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

So lovely!!

I hadn’t had a single blue egg until I opened up my last processed bird today

So the blue layers then, do they only lay blue sometimes?

Probably the egg was in an early stage of production. It might would not been layed blue, with the final shell layers.

My pansy breeder pen turned out to be all girls, so I took two boys from my teens and put them in with them. The girls promptly scalped them both. They're now in a tote inside the pansy pen recovering.

My Pansy girls are also mean. They scalped the second roo now.
Both are recovering, but one is traumatized, just running mad around, jumping against the door occasional. I think, I must process him

 

[Ted_Harrell]

They started hatching yesterday, I was getting worried that I had duds but here they are;

 

[Pandaisy]

I am so in love with this one (HG), the pure white head and the pattern.

 

[Matieus27]

Well we now own our first house. I'll post some pictures soon its on 1.25 acres about a mile from the lake and I've already got a spot picked out for the chickens and quail The chickens are going to have a lot of room to roam when I am done Im excited