➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

I woke up to my son letting my dog out of her crate only to realize she had diarrhea explosions. And was then running all over the house!
Got the pooch cleaned up, myself cleaned up, and kids to school. (I left the crate for the hubs who was coming off shift shortly after I left for work).

Work ended slightly after 5pm when I realized I had probably a 5 inch rip down the butt crack of my work pants and had been like that all day. But it only took me 10 hours to figure that out. And where I work is a very professional place. So some of my coworkers are going to hear it on Monday for letting me walk around all day like that. I’ve never ripped the seat of my pants before today.

But at least everyone in my household is still alive and well right?!

Oh my I can't believe no one told you about your pants.
This remind me about how someone was nice enough to tell me once my pants were on inside out.

 

[Kiki]

They rotate their breeding stock every 3rd generation, if they don't then their stock birds will return to the normal Wild type!

So if I got them and and bred them more than three times I would probably lose the jumboness?

 

[Kiki]

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44 eggs

Good luck!!!

 

[shaila]

One of my new chicks died last night. The previous chicks were amazingly self-preserving compared to this group, which somehow manage to completely soak their selves in a tiniest amount of water (the dish is filled with marbles) and thus get chilled. I have water nipples for this group, but the initial, easier to warm, brooder didn't have enough space to properly set them up. The chicks are in a larger bin now, but I suspect even with the nipples, some of them will still manage to get more water on their fluff than in their mouths.

 

[BantyChooks]

Oh my I can't believe no one told you about your pants.
This remind me about how someone was nice enough to tell me once my pants were on inside out.

Nobody probably noticed. I wouldn't have.

 

[igorsMistress]

Not great pics but we just put the eggs in the incubator. I added only 1 from our birds, the largest of what I collected this morning. All the others were too small or refrigerated a few days.

 

[R2elk]

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Not great pics but we just put the eggs in the incubator. I added only 1 from our birds, the largest of what I collected this morning. All the others were too small or refrigerated a few days.

You do know that a few days of refrigeration will not stop the eggs from being able to hatch, don't you? It isn't the preferred method for storing hatching eggs but it does not kill them.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

So if I got them and and bred them more than three times I would probably lose the jumboness?

Nah, they're just talking about color as far as I can tell. You do have to carefully select your breeding stock to keep the size up each generation, though.

You do know that a few days of refrigeration will not stop the eggs from being able to hatch, don't you? It isn't the preferred method for storing hatching eggs but it does not kill them.

Yeah, you certainly will have reduced rates, but there's a chance. That said, I got hideous deformities on my batch that froze overnight outside with no tracking number

 

[R2elk]

Yeah, you certainly will have reduced rates, but there's a chance. That said, I got hideous deformities on my batch that froze overnight outside with no tracking number

Freezing is not the same as storing in a refrigerator since the normal temperature for a refrigerator should be between 35°F and 40°F.

Extended time in a refrigerator will cause an increase in the air cell size because of the loss of moisture but just a day or two has not shown any difference in hatch ability for my chicken eggs.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Freezing is not the same as storing in a refrigerator since the normal temperature for a refrigerator should be between 35°F and 40°F.

Extended time in a refrigerator will cause an increase in the air cell size because of the loss of moisture but just a day or two has not shown any difference in hatch ability for my chicken eggs.

Good to know! I have always heard even refrigeration for more than a few hours will affect rates. I did get a couple of live healthy chicks even from my fully frozen batch, just *also* the worst deformities I've had.