➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[RUNuts]

I have brooded them together successfully for a few days. The quail chick is going to try to shove itself under the chicken chicks. The chicken chicks will probably peck at the quail chick. It will probably be ok, but keep an eye on them for a while and be prepared to set up a second brooder.

"A few days" & "probably be ok" would be a problem long term. Well, scratch that plan long term. Brooders for everyone.

 

[Sara L]

"A few days" & "probably be ok" would be a problem long term. Well, scratch that plan long term. Brooders for everyone.

I didn't say it can't be done. Just that I haven't done it and I don't know if it would work. I do know that button quail can be brooded with coturnix, even up to point of lay BUT the button quail will get picked on initially, so those with iffy health probably won't make it.

Since the picking was a size difference thing, it probably would be similar with chicken and quail chicks. It will also probably make a difference on how many of each you have.

 

[muddy75]

First quail out this morning! 5 more pips. View attachment 1785439

how did you get a “yeller”? i thought these were your eggs which came from “kikieggs”

 

[R2elk]

how did you get a “yeller”? i thought these were your eggs which came from “kikieggs”

Breeding (inbreeding) closely related birds is the quickest way to bring out hidden recessive genes. Sometimes it is used to develop a specific trait. In most cases it brings out undesired and unhealthy traits.

 

[RUNuts]

Breeding (inbreeding) closely related birds is the quickest way to bring out hidden recessive genes. Sometimes it is used to develop a specific trait. In most cases it brings out undesired and unhealthy traits.

Exactly. So breed stock was 1st generation. Kiki has 2nd generation. Nutty gets 3rd generation. Not recommended, but what we got.

6 hatched. 3 yallar & 3 wild types. 2 more pipping. So 8 out of 15 set are looking good. Ask me tomorrow.

The selected (lucky) rooster has white wing tips. Does this factor in at all?

New topic. I put 7 quail in the 2'x6' coop. Almost 2 square feet per bird. Dense. They don't mind, but one rooster may not handle all 6 hens. Laying has dropped off to one per day with the move and maybe the heat, summer arrived. For egg production, shouldn't be an issue. Thinking I'm setting another batch for meat which means I should take 3 hens out. Like to keep some of these, but the jumbos arrive next week & start laying in 8-12 weeks. Decisions. Not wanting a 4th coop. Need to set with planner more.

 

[muddy75]

90 eggs set today...30 grau fee, 30 pearl, 30 pansy

candled the 4 remaining homegrown I have under my 3 broodies and all are fertile and developing!!
may move a broody with 4 eggs to aviary for final week and put some new homegrown or incubator extras under other 2 for later hatch.
yesterday my quailie girls gave me 11 eggs and today I collected 14!!!

 

[Kiki]

how did you get a “yeller”? i thought these were your eggs which came from “kikieggs”

I had three yellers but I ate them. I didn't keep them because I wanted meat birds and they were the smaller ones.
So there is yeller in my 'breeders' somewhere.

 

[Kiki]

Exactly. So breed stock was 1st generation. Kiki has 2nd generation. Nutty gets 3rd generation. Not recommended, but what we got.

6 hatched. 3 yallar & 3 wild types. 2 more pipping. So 8 out of 15 set are looking good. Ask me tomorrow.

The selected (lucky) rooster has white wing tips. Does this factor in at all?

New topic. I put 7 quail in the 2'x6' coop. Almost 2 square feet per bird. Dense. They don't mind, but one rooster may not handle all 6 hens. Laying has dropped off to one per day with the move and maybe the heat, summer arrived. For egg production, shouldn't be an issue. Thinking I'm setting another batch for meat which means I should take 3 hens out. Like to keep some of these, but the jumbos arrive next week & start laying in 8-12 weeks. Decisions. Not wanting a 4th coop. Need to set with planner more.

No...your eggs are 2nd generation ones too.

 

[Kiki]

Exactly. So breed stock was 1st generation. Kiki has 2nd generation. Nutty gets 3rd generation. Not recommended, but what we got.

6 hatched. 3 yallar & 3 wild types. 2 more pipping. So 8 out of 15 set are looking good. Ask me tomorrow.

The selected (lucky) rooster has white wing tips. Does this factor in at all?

New topic. I put 7 quail in the 2'x6' coop. Almost 2 square feet per bird. Dense. They don't mind, but one rooster may not handle all 6 hens. Laying has dropped off to one per day with the move and maybe the heat, summer arrived. For egg production, shouldn't be an issue. Thinking I'm setting another batch for meat which means I should take 3 hens out. Like to keep some of these, but the jumbos arrive next week & start laying in 8-12 weeks. Decisions. Not wanting a 4th coop. Need to set with planner more.

Wait a minute you got THREE yellers? I'm dying.

 

[Kiki]

90 eggs set today...30 grau fee, 30 pearl, 30 pansy

candled the 4 remaining homegrown I have under my 3 broodies and all are fertile and developing!!
may move a broody with 4 eggs to aviary for final week and put some new homegrown or incubator extras under other 2 for later hatch.
yesterday my quailie girls gave me 11 eggs and today I collected 14!!!