➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

First floor or second floor? Ours are second floor (well every floor really but mostly upstairs) and definitely in the middle and everywhere. :lau :oops:



At first I thought this was an IT joke. :lau then Google kept turning up the Adobe program. Finally found it though. Yes I had to Google. :lau :oops:
First floor. Only floor.

Adobe, the mud they build bricks out of. :p
 
I only have one lone female left, and she's barely laying. It's a good thing I don't have anyone that wants hatching eggs at this time of year.
I hope that lone female is truly ALONE and not a lone female in a group of cocks. :eek:

Our potential buyer wants them for eating. She said she wants to buy them regularly. I think she means once ever week or every other week. It would be nice to have a steady buyer, but keeping the supply up is a challenge. In 2 months I hope that our quail chicks (2 weeks old now) are laying. Depending on the number of hens in this new generation, we should be able to double our egg production. And then we have the 40 eggs in the incubator, which I should hope will create at least another dozen hens. That would get use up to 3 dozen eggs per day in about 3 months from now. Then I will really need some buyers! Oh, and a pair of quail egg scissors finally...
 
First floor. Only floor.

Adobe, the mud they build bricks out of. :p

Ah. That’s good then. Probably pretty stupid to have ours on the second floor :lau

But tbh my mom loves to collect stuff, lots and lots of stuff, so she never even really reads them and/or usually claims she’s going to sell them or just likes having them around. :lau :oops: so they’re mostly in bins or the floor or a few cases and yeah.

Yeah, I did finally find it after I got past all the Adobe stuff haha

That’s embarrassing I had to look it up though. :lau

Figured it was something to do with desert or something though.
 
I hope that lone female is truly ALONE and not a lone female in a group of cocks. :eek:

Our potential buyer wants them for eating. She said she wants to buy them regularly. I think she means once ever week or every other week. It would be nice to have a steady buyer, but keeping the supply up is a challenge. In 2 months I hope that our quail chicks (2 weeks old now) are laying. Depending on the number of hens in this new generation, we should be able to double our egg production. And then we have the 40 eggs in the incubator, which I should hope will create at least another dozen hens. That would get use up to 3 dozen eggs per day in about 3 months from now. Then I will really need some buyers! Oh, and a pair of quail egg scissors finally...
She's in with one male, an old guy that's not super into chasing down girls any more.
 
For @Texas Kiki they are the Mex's cigar cutter. They are a device designed for cutting the end off of quail eggs.

Thanks, those sound useful. Are quail eggs hard to crack cause of the size or something?

:he I meant "quail" egg scissors.
In case you don't know what they are, here's a link to a video:

Nah, you typed it right in your post!! I just made a typo in mine haha typing too fast!! I fixed it now. I truly don’t know what they are haha thanks for the video.
 
Thanks, those sound useful. Are quail eggs hard to crack cause of the size or something?



Nah, you typed it right in your post!! I just made a typo in mine haha typing too fast!! I fixed it now. I truly don’t know what they are haha thanks for the video.
The membrane in quail eggs is thicker than that of chicken eggs. If you try to crack the egg on a bowl, counter, etc. it will crack the shell but the membrane holds together. I currently use a straight edge knife to cut the top (air sac end) of the egg off. It's messy though and often results in bits of shell in the egg. The scissors are much better.
 
My July 4th batch will be 7 weeks old tomorrow.
No noise or fighting yet.
I was supposed to start butchering them the other day but I keep putting it off.
I might really start this evening.
The one that crows already now does it every time I go in the aviary. He doesn't even have his nut bulge yet...the one who has nuts and baby foam(same hatch day) has not said a word of crowing yet. It's weird.
 

New posts New threads Active threads

Back
Top Bottom