➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[muddy75]

problem is, mine won't hatch until after election. LOL

you can still join in and definitely enjoy the other contests!! It’s a fun way to get to know everyone and a chance to win some really cool prizes!!! Friday will be the next round of @Kiki egg counting contest!! those are a blast!!

 

[Kiki]

Kewl, what kind???? LOL need a sneak preview since you brought it up.

There are 3 "closed" contests of mine in that contest section I linked above.

 

[Pyxis]

I can't find my notes but I am sure that he doesn't claim that these breed 100% true.
I have a list of all of this colors and what percent they breed true plus what the other percent that doesn't breed true may hatch out as and I can't find the damn thing to save my life today.

I'll dig for it again tomorrow.

I'm only a little irked because the website definitely doesn't say that if you order Egyptian they'll only hatch 50% Egyptian. Actually I just checked. Their website says that 95% hatch out true.

And Egyptian is a super straightforward color. As long as all your breeders are Egyptian, all that will hatch, barring unexpected recessives, is Egyptian.

To be hatching half pharoah, I'd have to wager a large portion, like up to half, of the breeders in the group are Pharoah.

 

[Dan Clark]

I separate 4-5 hens and rooster when I’m breeding new batch so realy only need one rooster but want back up if my breeding roo gets sick or escapes. I plan on putting Roo and 4-5 hens in smaller hutch for breeding new eggs when I want to incubate. Since I’m not raising for meat I only need to replace my birds once or twice a year.

 

[Pyxis]

I just got a reply to my email inquiring about if they have pharoahs in their breeding pen - they are saying their whole breeding pen is Egyptian. If that's true, then it's impossible that they could produce Pharoahs. You can't breed two birds together that have two copies of a recessive gene and get a dominant gene out in the offspring, because the parents literally don't possess the dominant gene to be able to pass it on.

Here's a Punnett square I made to show what I mean:

So, either they do have Pharoah in the breeding pen and aren't telling me, they sent me the wrong eggs a second time, or they don't actually know what an Egyptian is. None of those options is great.

 

[FloorCandy]

Do you have a salt tested humidity gauge?
What do you run your humidity at?

Yes, I have 3 lol. I run it at 37-42 the first 15 days, then at lockdown I put it up to 65-70. Previously with homegrowns I had gotten it down so well I had very few deformities, and very high hatch rates with no assistance needed. Some of these could be incubation related, but some are really twisted up, but not a slipped tendon, the longest bone is curved. Idk, I’m loathe to say it’s inbreeding like someone else suggested, because it’s very specific deformities, not weakness and deformity across the board. I think perhaps some blame is shipping, some incubation, and maybe there’s a hen or 2 with bad legs in their snowie flock.

I culled the worst one so far.

 

[Nabiki]

Today's bounty

 

[FloorCandy]

I just got a reply to my email inquiring about if they have pharoahs in their breeding pen - they are saying their whole breeding pen is Egyptian. If that's true, then it's impossible that they could produce Pharoahs. You can't breed two birds together that have two copies of a recessive gene and get a dominant gene out in the offspring, because the parents literally don't possess the dominant gene to be able to pass it on.

Here's a Punnett square I made to show what I mean:

So, either they do have Pharoah in the breeding pen and aren't telling me, they sent me the wrong eggs a second time, or they don't actually know what an Egyptian is. None of those options is great.

Their sex link video specifically tells people if they want to get started in sex links and want to know exactly that they have strong Egyptian lines with no silver polluting it, you should order Egyptians from them. None of those possibilities you listed bodes well for those claims. Idk, they seem nice and have lovely birds, and colors you can’t get elsewhere, but I have only like 18 or less snowies from 39 hatched. Lots of silver wilds and falb fee. I have to really look at the down, because many of them look more yellow to me than the cream that fees should have instead, but the red light throws me off, and my sick bay brooder has a plate so I never see them, they hate medicine lady haha.

 

[FloorCandy]

Today's bounty
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I got 4 from the grow out today, all blue!

 

[Nabiki]

I got 4 from the grow out today, all blue!

I have four that I know are laying blue. In the pen that I'm not sure who's laying what in yet, I got 6 blue and 1 speckled tonight. There are 13 hens in there.