➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Sara L]

And the little jerk is covered in her blood! Bad avatar! He got split out for the moment too.

I'm kind of on the fence about this guy because I do select for aggressive fertility and part of that is aggressive mating tendencies. My birds are kept in really unnatural pens compared to some people's and I kind of have to just expect a certain amount of unnatural behavior there too. I'm tempted to try and rig up an area 2-3x the size of their current space just for this breeding group and see if that mellows them out.

He also was without ladies for a while because of the bumblefoot way back when (happy to report 100% healed and eliminated for a while now), so he's been pent up.

On the other hand, doing well in that confined space is also something I'm trying to select for, and I gave the little butt three hens at once to try and mitigate that and he still tore one up.

Could they see each other before they were together in same cage? Sometimes that can help, a little like the play pen method for integrating chickens. So the girls have some time to get used to him before they can touch each other.

 

[Kiki]

It is helpful I literally had a guide for the species I was doing.

http://www.ctsa.org/files/publications/Lyretail6319619779998111681.pdf

Long story short, you knock them out, stimulate the male's bits, q-tip him, swirl it in a solution, and then pipette into the female.

Neat.

 

[CindyinSD]

Pics please... Actually, people do AI their chickens, and of course there are whole breeds of chickens and turkeys that can’t reproduce without it. Quail are so small though... but a lot of fish are pretty teensie too.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Could they see each other before they were together in same cage? Sometimes that can help, a little like the play pen method for integrating chickens. So the girls have some time to get used to him before they can touch each other.

Yes, but I think I will have to do a longer one!

Everyone else got the same treatment and there was a flurry of activity for a while and now they are snuggling.

It's the weirdest thing, some of my birds just have extreme preferences too. There are two females I have repeatedly tried to introduce to various breeding groups and they will NOT have it. They want just want only their favorite little sub-par place-holder bachelor male that I wanted to cull or no one. So now they all get culled, until I have space to run my brooding experiment (I have to to think strongly pair-bonded birds to start would work best for that).

 

[Kiki]

Pics please... Actually, people do AI their chickens, and of course there are whole breeds of chickens and turkeys that can’t reproduce without it. Quail are so small though... but a lot of fish are pretty teensie too.

This is just hilarious to me.
I'm sure it is completely normal to some.
I have the giggles.

 

[CindyinSD]

Pics please... Actually, people do AI their chickens, and of course there are whole breeds of chickens and turkeys that can’t reproduce without it. Quail are so small though... but a lot of fish are pretty teensie too.

I was joking about the pics... just in case.

 

[Kiki]

I was joking about the pics... just in case.

Pics are good!
We all need to see to learn.

 

[R2elk]

It is helpful I literally had a guide for the species I was doing.

http://www.ctsa.org/files/publications/Lyretail6319619779998111681.pdf

Long story short, you knock them out, stimulate the male's bits, q-tip him, swirl it in a solution, and then pipette into the female.

I assume they are live bearers. I worked in a fish rearing station. The trout are egg layers. We would "strip" the eggs from the females into a bowl of water and then "squirt" the semen from the males on top of them. This was followed by gently swirling the eggs. semen and water with one's hand before pouring them into a milk can and transporting them to the hatchery.

 

[Kiki]

I assume they are live bearers. I worked in a fish rearing station. The trout are egg layers. We would "strip" the eggs from the females into a bowl of water and then "squirt" the semen from the males on top of them. This was followed by gently swirling the eggs. semen and water with one's hand before pouring them into a milk can and transporting them to the hatchery.

The striping part...do you have to kill the female first?

 

[Kiki]

I guess I could see if YouTube can show me huh.