➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[BullChick]

Today was an insanely long day with all of the animals. I don’t think a single one behaved. The quail included! I actually had a panic moment when I lost sight of the Tuxedo. I can hide a lot of disappointments from Duckling, but that’s honestly her favorite. The nearest net was too far away to get to without risking completely losing it (okay, so I still have not checked sexes). Fortunately, every quail that escaped today, never left the area. They tried to find a way back in.
I don’t have sitters for the flock, and would probably find a way to add space for extra food and water if I had to go away.

 

[CayugaJana]

So, get this: there is some preliminary evidence to indicate that the temperature at which the parents (probably the hen specifically) are incubated at can have an effect on the gender spread of the following generation.

That sounds very plausible. If hens are like us in that they are born with all the egg follicles it will ever make. And the egg follicles being heat sensitive based on sex...... Just throwing out my random thoughts.

@CoturnixComplex , I agree with you about temperature affecting the sex of a developing embryo. There have been numerous studies conducted on incubation temperatures and gender. It is thought that higher temperatures will produce higher ratios of males to females than the normally thought of 50/50 ratio.

I have also conducted my own experiments on shape of the egg and the ability to discern sex of the embryo.
My preliminary findings are that eggs that have a very pronounced pointed end are male embryos and the 'rounded' eggs are female embryos.
I found this to be true, to some degree. The trouble I had determining the sex came about at hatching. I need to mark the shell in a place that won't be destroyed during pipping and zipping. Also, some eggs are easy to tell which end is pointed but it's the ones that aren't quite round or pointed that throw the proverbial 'monkey wrench' into the picture...it could go either way.
I'm going to conduct this experiment again this year. Going to keep better records, and hopefully it will provide some useful information...at least with pheasant eggs and sex determination. I'm using only Golden or Amherst eggs for this experiment, because of the simple fact, they can be sexed at hatch.

I hatched some duck eggs last year. They were the very first eggs the ducks had laid. 5 out of 26 hatched. And they were all 5 female. Several were fully formed but pipped at the wrong end and died. I wondered if they were males and were too big and got stuck before moving into the correct position.

Yeah, I could do that, I have enough incubators to designate/dedicate one bator to male eggs? And another to female eggs? So I think this is the way I'm going to perform this little experiment this year.
Last year, I just marked the eggs with either a male sign or female sign on the shell. And sometimes I didn't mark the eggs at all and they were all mixed together in several incubators. Not very scientific but it was adequate enough to 'test' the theory.
ETA - Going to have to buy another computer or an external hard drive...I'm running out of storage on my current CPU...no more room to add memory boards! going to be alot of pictures taken.

Do you have amazon prime? If so, I put all my photos on amazon photo. It’s free and unlimited storage. And the pictures from my phone automatically download.

 

[CayugaJana]

@muddy75
I got my Tibetans in today!!! 230 and man are the eggs beautiful! Bobwhites are just white eggs. But these are so cool. However some of them were smashed. About 12 out of 240 were cracked. So that was a bummer. The other eggs I’ve ordered came in the cardboard cartons and never had a cracked one. But it could absolutely be a coincidence.

Who else ordered from Myshire on here with the hilarious goose profile picture? I can’t remember to tag them as well.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Today is a good egg day. One of my pullets popped out her first teeny starter egg on the 6 week mark (the little one on the right), and my two occasional double layers just produced five eggs between them in 24 hours (they are alone together in a cage and I changed out the bedding 100% late last night).

 

[Sara L]

Still not walking right, the unabsorbed portion looks smaller but changed color. I'm not sure that's good. Last night I noticed he is not opening his eyes, I wiped with water but they weren't gunky, not sure why he's keeping eyes closed. I don't think he's going to make it.

Little one was gone when I got home from work. I'm sad he didn't make it but glad I didn't have to do it. All the others are doing well and 13 go to a new home tomorrow. The last 5 and the quail stay. Turkey and quail eggs are in lockdown.

 

[Kiki]

@muddy75
I got my Tibetans in today!!! 230 and man are the eggs beautiful! Bobwhites are just white eggs. But these are so cool. However some of them were smashed. About 12 out of 240 were cracked. So that was a bummer. The other eggs I’ve ordered came in the cardboard cartons and never had a cracked one. But it could absolutely be a coincidence.

Who else ordered from Myshire on here with the hilarious goose profile picture? I can’t remember to tag them as well.

What goose profiler?

 

[Kiki]

Today is a good egg day. One of my pullets popped out her first teeny starter egg on the 6 week mark (the little one on the right), and my two occasional double layers just produced five eggs between them in 24 hours (they are alone together in a cage and I changed out the bedding 100% late last night).
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I like your dark ones.

 

[007Sean]

I like your dark ones.

Yeah, they 'almost' look like Button eggs.

 

[CayugaJana]

What goose profiler?

They have a goose that is peeking over something in their profile picture. They bought the humidity kit for their incubator. Can’t remember their name for the life of me.

 

[Kiki]

They have a goose that is peeking over something in their profile picture. They bought the humidity kit for their incubator. Can’t remember their name for the life of me.

Find them!
I can't picture this image for the life of me.