➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

Not quail-specific but I bought a livestock guardian puppy yesterday. She's a Kangal Shepherd, which is an ancient Turkish breed.

She's already impressing me by living up to the breed's reputation for independence and a low prey drive towards livestock, but the chickens and ducks will need some time to warm up to their newest flock member. I think she'll do fine squaring off against a bobcat or two if need be, when she's full grown at around 100 lbs

 

[Nabiki]

Today is lockdown!

 

[FloorCandy]

I’ve got some pics of the fakers from the last couple hatches, not sure what to call their coloring, they are from snowie males that carry celadon, crossed to my celadons which are scarlet, Tibetan and Rosetta. They are fine, healthy, and normal, not light sensitive or anything, but I’ve noticed with the natural light outside, they have a red sheen to their eyes, which I hadn’t noticed before.

First up is my boy Apollo, he knows how handsome he is haha:

He is a boy, and he’s top dog lol he takes good care of his ladies and crows proudly to let me know how great he is.

Idk if these 2 are male or female yet:

All 3 were born completely yellow, there’s 2 more, but they’re hens who I have separated to see what color they lay, so I didn’t take pics of them. Is there a fallow color for Coturnix?

 

[muddy75]

I’ve got some pics of the fakers from the last couple hatches, not sure what to call their coloring, they are from snowie males that carry celadon, crossed to my celadons which are scarlet, Tibetan and Rosetta. They are fine, healthy, and normal, not light sensitive or anything, but I’ve noticed with the natural light outside, they have a red sheen to their eyes, which I hadn’t noticed before.

First up is my boy Apollo, he knows how handsome he is haha:
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He is a boy, and he’s top dog lol he takes good care of his ladies and crows proudly to let me know how great he is.

Idk if these 2 are male or female yet:
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All 3 were born completely yellow, there’s 2 more, but they’re hens who I have separated to see what color they lay, so I didn’t take pics of them. Is there a fallow color for Coturnix?

I would say German pastel (a collection in which the fee gene was originated) the one at the bottom appears to be a panda pattern.

 

[FloorCandy]

I would say German pastel (a collection in which the fee gene was originated) the one at the bottom appears to be a panda pattern.

Hmmmm other than the 3 week olds from enthusiast, I don’t have any German pastels, I suppose the Myshire silvers could have had them recessive, but I combined the myshires with mine who were all basic colors and have never thrown a pastel, and I’ve bred them every which way before, then the snowie males resulting from that match up were bred again to my normal colored hens. Idk how I could get GPC from that, if it was recessive from the silvers, they would need a second copy, and if it was dominant, I should have seen it in a parent right? Or can fee do this alone?

The panda pattern comes from my original birds and the myshires.

 

[Nabiki]

Myshire Auctions are up and running today!

 

[muddy75]

Loving my little Grau fee
Finished the summer turning and fresh mulching

 

[kurby22]

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Loving my little Grau fee
Finished the summer turning and fresh mulching

Those are some spoiled birds!

 

[muddy75]

Those are some spoiled birds!

Yes they are!!!! And it’s always funny when we’re doing maintenance that 1 or 2 decide they want to free range.....no worries we usually get them wrangled back in within a minute or so!!!

 

[kurby22]

Yes they are!!!! And it’s always funny when we’re doing maintenance that 1 or 2 decide they want to free range.....no worries we usually get them wrangled back in within a minute or so!!!

They don't know how good they got it!!