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[muddy75]

Some really cool colors out of my homegrown batch!!! 2 Grau fee tuxedo and 2 silver pandas

 

[FloorCandy]

Some really cool colors out of my homegrown batch!!! 2 Grau fee tuxedo and 2 silver pandas

I’m offing one of those dark gray speckled ones today haha, all the prettiest ones end up being boys.

 

[muddy75]

I’m offing one of those dark gray speckled ones today haha, all the prettiest ones end up being boys.

Sometimes I get lucky and I don’t have to off boys until I hit maximum density 2 dozen or so

 

[FloorCandy]

Sometimes I get lucky and I don’t have to off boys until I hit maximum density 2 dozen or so

I have one that screams at my husband every time he sees or hears him, so he’s gotta go. I have a total of 5 for tonight. The ones in the grow out are starting to crow and foam, so there will be more soon.

 

[Nabiki]

I think my black celadon understood me when I said that if there was no improvement by the end of today, Monday was cull day. It still can't stand, but it has been getting its feet under it. That counts as improvement, so it gets a few more days.

 

[Nabiki]

I was bad. I ordered some celadon eggs to expand my gene pool. All of the ones I have came from the same group that I believe has been interbreeding for a while. Most of them are tibetan or rosetta tuxes with some silvers thrown in, and I would like to get more variety without breeding silver to silver too much.

 

[FloorCandy]

Little sugar has developed silver snowie speckles. It’s eyes are definitely the dark purply red of the other double silvers, and it’s growing and feathering slowly, on par with my other doubles, and I’ve moved it into the brooder with the K Dales that are a week younger. I’m guessing double silvers can have some pigment after all. It’s been a very interesting process, but with weeding out the bad seeds, I haven’t gotten any Pop eyed doubles, and the last 2 have been healthy and I expect them to live long enough to butcher, other than being blind they have no other problems, I don’t even need to give them nutridrench, they’re doing great on just starter.

Here is Sugar:

Here is a yellow, completely unrelated, healthy, K Dale chick no eye redness:

Here is Salt (best pic I can get, he freaks the heck out when I pick him up haha):

Other than being small and blind, they are otherwise healthy and independent.

 

[Nabiki]

Little sugar has developed silver snowie speckles. It’s eyes are definitely the dark purply red of the other double silvers, and it’s growing and feathering slowly, on par with my other doubles, and I’ve moved it into the brooder with the K Dales that are a week younger. I’m guessing double silvers can have some pigment after all. It’s been a very interesting process, but with weeding out the bad seeds, I haven’t gotten any Pop eyed doubles, and the last 2 have been healthy and I expect them to live long enough to butcher, other than being blind they have no other problems, I don’t even need to give them nutridrench, they’re doing great on just starter.

Here is Sugar:
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Here is a yellow, completely unrelated, healthy, K Dale chick no eye redness:
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Here is Salt (best pic I can get, he freaks the heck out when I pick him up haha):
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Other than being small and blind, they are otherwise healthy and independent.
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I'm sorry, but small and blind is not healthy. I know you have your reasons for breeding them, but I don't want to have the health problems in my covey.

 

[FloorCandy]

I'm sorry, but small and blind is not healthy. I know you have your reasons for breeding them, but I don't want to have the health problems in my covey.

I don’t mix them with the covey, they are separate and live indoors.

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

Total noob question: other than the feather patterns and coloring, what (if any) differences should I expect from the different coturnix breeds in the "hatchery choice" assortment I have currently incubating? I'm mentally comparing them with chickens, which I know is dumb, but chicken breeds are very different in laying, growth, and temperament etc, and I haven't read much about this in quail. Thanks!