➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[ShrekDawg]

I might keep 4 females and one male from this batch.
Might.

Oh wow! You eat a lot of quail! Haha

 

[Kiki]

Oh wow! You eat a lot of quail! Haha

No not really but I do want a freezer full asap.

 

[ShrekDawg]

No not really but I do want a freezer full asap.

Ahh that makes sense then. Nice to have them on hand in case you want them haha

 

[muddy75]

Saddled light 2
Saddled bad 3
Quit 6
Clear 2
Normal 3
Maybe 2
I candled the button quail eggs this morning.

if i remember correctly all of mine had pretty nasty looking saddled air cells...i sent 8 to lockdown with 2 probable quitters and 6 ok but not great due to saddling/disrupted air cell.....3 hatched on day 16 with expectation that 0-3 were maybes! so maybe still hope for some that aren’t clear quitters yet!! i’m probably candling tonight....mine on day 5.

 

[muddy75]

just candled my button eggs....day 5....
ordered 12
received/set 20
6 too dark to see anything
4+ have some level of saddling but fertile
10 developing “normally”
so technically i have 100% fertility

 

[muddy75]

did some bird maintenance today.....we hung a head of cabbage to see if that would give partridge and pheasant some entertainment to keep them from feather-picking as much. planning to get them some toys as well?? went ahead and butchered 3 in the “infirmary”. (1 was from june batch that never walked right, 1 was hen that got scalped and both eyes pecked and I wasn’t seeing enough improvement to reintroduce, last was male that had eye injury and looked to be better but worsened when I released him). aviary quail # looks to be around 60, 6 chukars, 9 pheasant. about 2 doz in outdoor brooder/grow-out cage, 2/9 hatched so far, 19 still cooking!
only collecting 6 eggs per day and in storage for possible set??? told hubby we need to consider putting at least a dozen more in the freezer soon to get my numbers where I want them!!

 

[BantyChooks]

if i remember correctly all of mine had pretty nasty looking saddled air cells...i sent 8 to lockdown with 2 probable quitters and 6 ok but not great due to saddling/disrupted air cell.....3 hatched on day 16 with expectation that 0-3 were maybes! so maybe still hope for some that aren’t clear quitters yet!! i’m probably candling tonight....mine on day 5.

Good luck with yours. I believe mine go into lockdown shortly.

 

[BantyChooks]

did some bird maintenance today.....we hung a head of cabbage to see if that would give partridge and pheasant some entertainment to keep them from feather-picking as much. planning to get them some toys as well?? went ahead and butchered 3 in the “infirmary”. (1 was from june batch that never walked right, 1 was hen that got scalped and both eyes pecked and I wasn’t seeing enough improvement to reintroduce, last was male that had eye injury and looked to be better but worsened when I released him). aviary quail # looks to be around 60, 6 chukars, 9 pheasant. about 2 doz in outdoor brooder/grow-out cage, 2/9 hatched so far, 19 still cooking!
only collecting 6 eggs per day and in storage for possible set??? told hubby we need to consider putting at least a dozen more in the freezer soon to get my numbers where I want them!!

Any pictures of the chukars? I haven't seen anyone with them locally so know little about them.
I have a lot of culling to do too. I'm just waiting for better weather.

 

[Nabiki]

One has hatched. The one that I saw pipped last night hasn't done anything yet. I see a couple of other pips, though. The single chick is hanging out in the incubator until at least one more hatches to huddle with in the brooder.

These guys are much smaller than the jumbos. Go fig, huh? ;-)

 

[muddy75]

Any pictures of the chukars? I haven't seen anyone with them locally so know little about them.
I have a lot of culling to do too. I'm just waiting for better weather.

the “bird pile” pics are from june 20.......and and the single is recent. there is one listing on here for doz eggs for $30 shipping included that i’ve been watching. They are fairly easy to raise (comparably) and the 1 we butchered at 3 months dressed out just under 1lb......(when i packaged it hubby got confused and thought we had a really big quail! hahaha) would be more ideal if I had separated them before adult feathering as they are easily bored and prone to “bullying” and feather-picking the other birds. they are a bit more skittish than others as well.....pheasants and quail will eat out of our hands, but chukars won’t. oh also very difficult to tell genders apart!!

moral of the story: listen to @007Sean advice regarding set-up before birds leave the brooder!!