➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CoturnixComplex]

Huh. So, I think I hatched my own "dirty pearl/yellow snow". Wish I'd kept track of the parents on this one. It is probably from my silver tux male (same line as the shipped weird in-between golden pearls) x Italian female. He must be hiding some dilute genes.

"Normal" golden Italian siblings are to the left and directly above, the weird one is center front.

 

[Crazydoglady99]

Who are you calling weird

Our babies look very similar last hatch Coturnix. I'm pretty excited about all the different colors!! Normal or weird

 

[BantyChooks]

Who are you calling weird

Our babies look very similar last hatch Coturnix. I'm pretty excited about all the different colors!! Normal or weird

Absolutely normal.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Who are you calling weird

Our babies look very similar last hatch Coturnix. I'm pretty excited about all the different colors!! Normal or weird

Sorry, what I meant was: beautiful! Not a speck of gold in his adult feathers so far, we will see if that changes Would be kind of hilarious if I got no clean pearls out of my giant custom batch of eggs and one randomly showed up in my own stock. I was like "meh, all those babies look the same, imma just mark down that I got a bunch of italians and be too lazy to sharpie their heads." What a fool I was!

Oh well, must breed everything again.

 

[muddy75]

my 30 pearl eggs arrived today!! trying to calculate logistics of staggered hatch without buying another incubator. If I hold the eggs for 7-10 days before setting do i turn them every 2-3 days?? my memory is a little foggy on that as I’m usually too impatient to not set immediately

 

[CoturnixComplex]

my 30 pearl eggs arrived today!! trying to calculate logistics of staggered hatch without buying another incubator. If I hold the eggs for 7-10 days before setting do i turn them every 2-3 days?? my memory is a little foggy on that as I’m usually too impatient to not set immediately

I would try and get them in the incubator before 7-10 days from now, that amount of time + whatever it took to collect and ship them and I would expect pretty decreased hatch rates :/

I have also always been too impatient so I am not the one to answer your actual question

 

[Kiki]

my 30 pearl eggs arrived today!! trying to calculate logistics of staggered hatch without buying another incubator. If I hold the eggs for 7-10 days before setting do i turn them every 2-3 days?? my memory is a little foggy on that as I’m usually too impatient to not set immediately

Can't you squeeze them all in somehow?
I too think waiting 7 days is a bit tooooooo long to wait.

 

[Crazydoglady99]

Ahhhhhh muddy!!! The perils of hatching addiction

I have the same problem

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Ahhhhhh muddy!!! The perils of hatching addiction

I have the same problem

I have been known to shove dozens of eggs into the space around the rotating trays temporarily

I can't believe the sheer volume of quail baby I now own. I have never had more than like 8 at a time before. I went in to say hello to my 35 this morning and I was like well, that can definitely be referred to as a quail horde now

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I have so many nice little charcoal/silver/falb fee males from this batch I am sure I will end up eating. Poor boys. Poor useless boys.