➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CayugaJana]

I’ve been trying to understand that from the moment I was told to trust them.

I missed that boat.......

 

[Kiki]

I thought it was something to do with coturnix that I missed. And being a newbie I didn’t do my due diligence in reading. He said pharaoh and Egyptian are the only ones that breed true in the offspring. I was disappointed because I got a lot of the tuxedo/bibbed. Which is my least favorite. Does anyone have a different experience with other commercial coturnix breeders?

I still don't get why they advertise the eggs as one thing if they don't breed true. That makes absolutely no sense to me.

 

[HuffleClaw]

What do you guys use as a waterer? Will a regular chick waterer work? With marbles maybe?

ETA- for baby quail chicks

 

[CayugaJana]

I still don't get why they advertise the eggs as one thing if they don't breed true. That makes absolutely no sense to me.

No other breed of birds I’ve ordered does it this way. I’ll take some pictures of the variety I have tonight. But I can tell you I have a few of every variety there is.

 

[CayugaJana]

What do you guys use as a waterer? Will a regular chick waterer work? With marbles maybe?

I didn’t add any marbles to mine the first batch and came back to 9-10 drowned......

 

[HuffleClaw]

I didn’t add any marbles to mine the first batch and came back to 9-10 drowned......

Oh no I’ll be sure to add marbles!

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I thought it was something to do with coturnix that I missed. And being a newbie I didn’t do my due diligence in reading. He said pharaoh and Egyptian are the only ones that breed true in the offspring. I was disappointed because I got a lot of the tuxedo/bibbed. Which is my least favorite. Does anyone have a different experience with other commercial coturnix breeders?

Not all of them breed true...but this is also frustratingly untrue. They can always be hiding genes, but to say that you can't breed them true is just false. Every single chick I've gotten from my tibetan boys crossed with non-reds has been a red range, as expected.

Hello! English whites! Lavenders! Recessive silvers!

Go with JMF next time.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

No other breed of birds I’ve ordered does it this way. I’ll take some pictures of the variety I have tonight. But I can tell you I have a few of every variety there is.

You ordered a LOT of eggs....I have a sinking feeling he didn't have enough actual tibetans to fill it.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I thought it was something to do with coturnix that I missed. And being a newbie I didn’t do my due diligence in reading. He said pharaoh and Egyptian are the only ones that breed true in the offspring. I was disappointed because I got a lot of the tuxedo/bibbed. Which is my least favorite. Does anyone have a different experience with other commercial coturnix breeders?

Are they at least bibbed tibetans? That makes sense to me! Not so much the other colors altogether.

 

[muddy75]

It doesn't make sense to me. Why do they sell eggs that are supposed to be a certain color but they don't even hatch that color?

breeding for color = designer quail.....as low as 60% true hatch rate (in the collections like ssc and pastel) because of different color gene combinations. and dominant vs recessive colors and lethal gene combinations etc
breeding for weight in “wild type” otoh is 99+% true hatch