➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CindyinSD]

It was great meeting @el dorado quail today. I learned a lot at the seminar.

I just fired up the incubator. I have a batch of eggs arriving on Friday. I think I'm going to sneak a few of the eggs from my covey to see what hatches.


I can label the eggs, but how will I keep track of which chicks hatch from which eggs?!

People make tiny cages for the special eggs during lock-down. Or you could put some kind of partition in your incubator—just make sure it doesn’t affect the free circulation of air.

 

[Kiki]

I haven't looked at my Google sheet in a while.
I am just now noticing that this company actually sells twofers labeled just for quail.
https://www.paybacknutrition.com/products/poultry

 

[ShrekDawg]

I haven't looked at my Google sheet in a while.
I am just now noticing that this company actually sells twofers labeled just for quail.
https://www.paybacknutrition.com/products/poultry

Awesome! Although I’m assuming you meant two foods? Cause at first I spent a while trying to figure out what a twofer was

 

[muddy75]

Right so if i take a Roux Female from the sex links and a Pharaoh male and cross them because they are half and half the cross would result in 1/4 being homozygous for pharaoh and homozygous for Roux so at that point i should if i can determine which are 100% pharaoh and 100% roux basically determined by a test breeding of the said birds then essentially i could reproduce the sex link in the third generation correct?

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[Maiahr]

This past weekend I got around to installing the watering system for the quail. It holds 5 gallons.

Could you please post a picture of the red cups? They look like mine. I bought them from the Chinese website, cheap, but the quail fill them with food, they get heavy and do not fill up with water.

I can label the eggs, but how will I keep track of which chicks hatch from which eggs?!

I have a DIY net divisions in my small incubator, which I can remove if needed. I have chicken eggs there now. For the big incubator I have used cardboard , cut plastic bottle or a kitchen food protector. See the pictures.

Has your hatch completed in 24 hours?

Always exactly 24 hours but I have not done a staggered hatch yet.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Could you please post a picture of the red cups? They look like mine. I bought them from the Chinese website, cheap, but the quail fill them with food, they get heavy and do not fill up with water.

I have a DIY net divisions in my small incubator, which I can remove if needed. I have chicken eggs there now. For the big incubator I have used cardboard , cut plastic bottle or a kitchen food protector. See the pictures.

Always exactly 24 hours but I have not done a staggered hatch yet.

Not sure if its available out there but i have used this flexible crafting plastic you might be interested in it.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DV68A9I/?tag=backy-20

 

[Maiahr]

Since you like pictures... I have a golden Manchurian who lays these brown infertile eggs on the right. Anything interesting there or this happens?

 

[mixedUPturk]

Since you like pictures... I have a golden Manchurian who lays these brown infertile eggs on the right. Anything interesting there or this happens?

Happens. I poke two holesand use a small straw to blow out the insides and save the funnies.

 

[R2elk]

Right so if i take a Roux Female from the sex links and a Pharaoh male and cross them because they are half and half the cross would result in 1/4 being homozygous for pharaoh and homozygous for Roux so at that point i should if i can determine which are 100% pharaoh and 100% roux basically determined by a test breeding of the said birds then essentially i could reproduce the sex link in the third generation correct?

The Roux female is not used in sex links because she cannot pass her Roux gene on to her daughters. She will pass her Roux gene to all of her male offspring. All of the Pharaoh males produced by your planned mating will have a single hidden Roux gene. All of the Roux males produced from your planned mating will be pure Roux since they have to have two copies for the trait to be shown. All of the Pharaoh females produced will be pure Pharaohs because if they had one Roux gene they would be Roux. All of the Roux females will be Roux.

Since there will be both sexes of each variety, they will not be sex linked.

For sex links to work, they only work for the first generation. They also only work using the male homozygous for the recessive gene being crossed with the female that is showing the dominant trait. Breeding the female with the recessive sex linked trait to a male with the dominant trait with only produce offspring with the dominant trait. The female offspring will be pure for the dominant trait while the male offspring will be phenotypically the dominant trait but genotypically they will be heterozygous for the recessive trait.

 

[Maiahr]

I always thought Roux is the same as Pharaoh. But now you are talking about both. What is this hen then?