➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[HuffleClaw]

@HuffleClaw how many eggs are you getting? How exciting for you, it'll be a great winter project!

I raise my quail in the garden on the ground. They have bins and old plant pots I cut the bottoms off for hidey holes and cover and plants in there too.

I was originally planning on 15, but I’m going to go with about 10-ish eggs.

Also thank you for the info!

 

[HuffleClaw]

How about these? (Just for a brooder)

(Found this on google, not my pic)

 

[igorsMistress]

I was originally planning on 15, but I’m going to go with about 10-ish eggs.

Also thank you for the info!

You're going to post pics when they hatch right? I'm still waiting for eggs and it's probably going to be months yet

Those boxes as a brooder will be too small in short order. You'll need something bigger or a couple of those.

 

[Sara L]

Ok.. time for a really dumb noob question..

With my baby cortunix quails, there are 3 distinct colors appearing.

Brown striped
All Yellow
Light Speckled

Does this mean the birds are unrelated? Or do siblings throw different colorings? (I assumed that you'd have to mix up the gene pool to get different colors)



Thanks y'all!

Depends on the parents, and grandparents. If they have different colors, then the chicks could be different colors depending on which color genetics they received. Some colors are dominant, some are semi-dominant, and some are recessive.

How about these? (Just for a brooder)
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(Found this on google, not my pic)

I have a similar set up for my brooders, but depending on number of birds can get gross really fast. Usually works well for the first week then need to move to wire cages because they poop everywhere.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Quick rant/vent about the quail eggs:
My aunt was supposed to set the appointment and such for the quail eggs... SHE DIDNT!

I’m too anti-social and asked her to do it 2 days ago! She said she’d call and set it all up tomorrow

I hope she does

 

[Crazydoglady99]

Thanks Sara!

I was looking at these little chicks thinking 'surely they can't be full blood siblings if they are different colourings'..

 

[Sara L]

Thanks Sara!

I was looking at these little chicks thinking 'surely they can't be full blood siblings if they are different colourings'..

Unfortunately they could be. Some colors *may* also be sex linked. I'm trying to get a red traditional, which has the feather pattern of the traditional pharoah but with red instead of brown. I have a male traditional over a red hen, and the ones that turn out the color I want so far have all been hens. The other colors that resulted (solid brown or traditional) have been a mix of boys and girls.

 

[HuffleClaw]

How’s everyone’s incubating going?

 

[Crazydoglady99]

All very boring over here.. still 2 weeks to go..

Oh wait.. only 10days to go!

**might have ordered 4dozen more hatching eggs, due to arrive on Thursday. Gotta mix up the gene pool over here

 

[HuffleClaw]

All very boring over here.. still 2 weeks to go..

Oh wait.. only 10days to go!

**might have ordered 4dozen more hatching eggs, due to arrive on Thursday. Gotta mix up the gene pool over here

4 dozen?

Lol, good luck!