➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[007Sean]

Nope. All look alike. What clues are you looking for? I'm lost.

The one on the left is a tuxedo, brown on top of head yellow on side of head and solid stripe down back with yellow chest and belly. 2nd is all yellow, 3rd same as #1. The rest in this pic have mottled coloring to their down, normal colored Cot.

 

[RUNuts]

Ah! I thought you were talking about my motley crew. All mine have racing stripes.

 

[007Sean]

Ah! I thought you were talking about my motley crew. All mine have racing stripes.

Oh, ok these are Kiki's I thought she was posting your chicks. My bad.

 

[007Sean]

View attachment 1653328 Ah! I thought you were talking about my motley crew. All mine have racing stripes.

Yep, you have normal colored chicks.

 

[muddy75]

hubby gave me his section of countertop for my incubation area!! new bator has been running now for about an hour.....seems to be 1*c low on temp and about 10-12% low on humidity so far. making manual adjustments until I get discrepancy nailed down and then maybe will try to recalibrate....user manual says it can be done but haven’t gotten into the exact how-tos yet. (if all else fails read the manual) just went out and checked brooder babies, and wrangled quail and chicks into coop.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I have some quick tiny chicken math to do!

8 pullets for myself
12 for the swap
=20 girls
+20 boys
=40
+potential shipped egg and new-ish incubator (I mean me) penalty, knowing I will eat extras
=
Uh oh, better fill my 96 egg incubator

Should have lavender, pearl-fee, falb-fee, red range, whatever the hell falb-fee+red range turns out, silver/blue, italian, golden layer, silver italian, roux dilute, autumn amber, silver roux italian, charcoal, and charcoal rosetta chicks. My culling priorities usually go health(at hatch especially)> egg laying record > color > weight, as I personally am more trying to standardize my flock size than increase it.

EDIT: I was not trying to tag a user sorry

 

[BantyChooks]

I have some quick tiny chicken math to do!

8 pullets for myself
12 for the swap
=20 girls
+20 boys
=40
+potential shipped egg and new-ish incubator (I mean me) penalty, knowing I will eat extras
=
Uh oh, better fill my 96 egg incubator

Should have lavender, pearl-fee, falb-fee, red range, whatever the hell falb-fee+red range turns out, silver/blue, italian, golden layer, silver italian, roux dilute, autumn amber, silver roux italian, charcoal, and charcoal rosetta chicks. My culling priorities usually go health(at hatch especially)> egg laying record > color > weight, as I personally am more trying to standardize my flock size than increase it.

EDIT: I was not trying to tag a user sorry

You're insane! In a good way. Teach me how to do this kind of math.

 

[007Sean]

View attachment 1653334
hubby gave me his section of countertop for my incubation area!! new bator has been running now for about an hour.....seems to be 1*c low on temp and about 10-12% low on humidity so far. making manual adjustments until I get discrepancy nailed down and then maybe will try to recalibrate....user manual says it can be done but haven’t gotten into the exact how-tos yet. just went out and checked brooder babies, and wrangled quail and chicks into coop.

Let it run at least 12 hours before attempting adjustments. When you do make an adjustment wait another couple of hours to see if it needs any other adjustments.
If you make adjustments too frequently, you'll wind up chasing your tail. Just when you think it's stabilized, let it stabilize a little longer. 'Patience grasshopper'.

 

[Crazydoglady99]

Have any of you clever quailers used rice hulls as bedding?

Normally I use sawdust

 

[007Sean]

Have any of you clever quailers used rice hulls as bedding?

Normally I use sawdust

Nope I haven't. I use small aspen hardwood chips.
I like them better than pine and they have a fresh earthy smell, don't get moldy like pine does if you forget to change out the bedding on time.