➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

I won one of the BYC contests, and the person sent me a copy of the shipping I was responsible for. Almost $100, and every egg was broken. Then I found out they were not purebred, but mutts.

Yikes.

 

[muddy75]

At least they have a chance of reaching hatch stage. Some very expensive pheasant eggs I've ordered before had tiny bubbles and the membranes completely detached....I think the seller shooked them up before shipping. They looked scrambled in the shell. 1st time I wrote it off as handling while in shipment, 2nd time they were the same way and also had been placed in the box with the pointed end facing up! never going to order from that breeder again. When I e-mailed him and let them know this wasn't my first rodeo with hatching shipped eggs....all I got back was, "I'm sorry"

do you ship eggs?? i’m kinda slimming down my chickens...for quail,but still considering adding ornamental pheasants (now a hatching addict) and not wanting to order minimum 15 chicks! if that post makes any sense at all

 

[Kiki]

I think I need snowy quail.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I think I need snowy quail.

Everyone needs a snowie (it is actually spelled that way don't ask me why >.>). Or a pearl, I think I actually like them better (black points vs. silver).

I have up to 35 still going and I'd also be sending y'all awesome helpful people eggs like crazy if it were legal! Although with my luck every color under the sun EXCEPT snowie/pearl will hatch for the third time

Also, I was wrong, there are solid black quail. A dominant and a recessive black, actually. Just not commercially available, esp in U.S.

Has anyone else seen the EU pansies (not US chocolate manchurians)? Gorgeous tricolor patterns like calico cats I'd murder for some.

 

[007Sean]

do you ship eggs?? i’m kinda slimming down my chickens...for quail,but still considering adding ornamental pheasants (now a hatching addict) and not wanting to order minimum 15 chicks! if that post makes any sense at all

I can and have but prefer to have pick up. I'm not NPIP certified. And don't want to be. All NPIP cert means is at the time they were tested they had no disease....doesn't mean a thing if a week later the flock comes down with some illness that isn't caught, and eggs or live birds are being shipped out!
Just a way some breeders think they can charge more for their eggs or live birds.

 

[Kullas]

@Kullas Before I installed a fan, with ambient humidity in the 50% range the dry method would work. Kiki runs a still air incubator. After fan installation, the humidity would nosedive to the 20%, the lower detection limit of the hygrometers. Really dry the eggs out. I chose to run forced and add water.

Keep this in mind as you run the experiments. Details. The devil is always in the details.

That's the info. Mine is a nova bator 1588. The one without the digital readout. It stays a constant 100.1 not coming off that but .1 or 2 very little change at all. I played with the tray slots and found the 45% mark. It is forced air so I think I will run it there this go around. I was just looking for a reason dry worked for some and not others. May be partly to still air or forced air. I didn't see much much reference to that. Some times I over think stuff some times trying g to figure things out.

 

[muddy75]

I can and have but prefer to have pick up. I'm not NPIP certified. And don't want to be. All NPIP cert means is at the time they were tested they had no disease....doesn't mean a thing if a week later the flock comes down with some illness that isn't caught, and eggs or live birds are being shipped out!
Just a way some breeders think they can charge more for their eggs or live birds.

i totally agree with you on npip....i could probably talk hubby into a local pickup if i can include it in a fishing or hog-hunting trip! I totally need a good reason to travel to texas again soon!! would definitely move there if given a choice!

 

[007Sean]

i totally agree with you on npip....i could probably talk hubby into a local pickup if i can include it in a fishing or hog-hunting trip! I totally need a good reason to travel to texas again soon!! would definitely move there if given a choice!

My birds won't start laying fertile eggs until late April, early May. The first week they start laying, half won't be fertile. Usually by 2 weeks from starting, they will all be fertile.

 

[Kiki]

Everyone needs a snowie (it is actually spelled that way don't ask me why >.>). Or a pearl, I think I actually like them better (black points vs. silver).

I have up to 35 still going and I'd also be sending y'all awesome helpful people eggs like crazy if it were legal! Although with my luck every color under the sun EXCEPT snowie/pearl will hatch for the third time

Also, I was wrong, there are solid black quail. A dominant and a recessive black, actually. Just not commercially available, esp in U.S.

Has anyone else seen the EU pansies (not US chocolate manchurians)? Gorgeous tricolor patterns like calico cats I'd murder for some.

Shoot.
I think I need some Tibetan Tuxedo ones too.
And some Sparkly.
Maybe some Scarlet too.


Why oh why did I go to this website.

 

[Kiki]

i totally agree with you on npip....i could probably talk hubby into a local pickup if i can include it in a fishing or hog-hunting trip! I totally need a good reason to travel to texas again soon!! would definitely move there if given a choice!

You would drive here for eggs?
You are insanely nuts!