➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[muddy75]

the “assists” look to have “crooked” neck. one cannot right itself and will probably be necessary to cull tomorrow. the other may escape cull but is definitely a “runt”

in other news.....at least 2 buttons pipped

 

[007Sean]

No. I just can't do Craigslist except for the laughs.
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and what the....



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Oh you need that mask, Kiki!

 

[Kiki]

Oh you need that mask, Kiki!

I bought it...it's being shipped to Nutty's house tomorrow.

 

[007Sean]

I bought it...it's being shipped to Nutty's house tomorrow.

Fabulous!

 

[RUNuts]

I bought it...it's being shipped to Nutty's house tomorrow.

Oh, no! You didn’t!

I’m getting you one of these to say thanks...

 

[Kiki]

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Oh, no! You didn’t!

I’m getting you one of these to say thanks...

I'll put it on my front porch.

 

[RUNuts]

Maybe the pair.

I’d hate to break up the set.

 

[RUNuts]

I am so glad you didn’t already have that set.

 

[CayugaJana]

Ya need more ....I have 3 cabinet and 5 foam, and 1 Nurture Rite 360

Got my 1st egg today. Pc. colchicus
or Southern Caucasus or in layman's term a Southern Black necked pheasant. Nice blue/green.
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Beautiful.... I love green eggs!!

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It’s so pretty! How does it compare to a melanistic pheasant? I think those are beautiful!

 

[007Sean]

Beautiful.... I love green eggs!!


It’s so pretty! How does it compare to a melanistic pheasant? I think those are beautiful!

Green eggs and ham?
Seriously, Pc. colchicus is a larger bird, 4 1/2 to 6lbs. versus 4 to 4 1/2 lbs. for melanistics. Melanistics lay a 'true' olive color egg, a real dark green/olive and sometimes more brownish than olive. I have Green, Blue and Black melanistics, and different color variants among them. They sometimes 'throw' more towards the phenotypical common ring necked pheasant. Sometimes they will have a ring others won't or they might have a broken ring around the neck. And sometimes it's hard to tell if its melanistic or the common Chinese ring necked as that's how the 1st melanistic happened...a true mutation of the common ring necked pheasant on the Rothschilds Estate.
The Southern Black neck's eggs are more blue than green/olive. Temperment's about the same.
Sorry, rambling on...this is a quail thread not a pheasant thread, I apologize Kiki.