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[Matieus27]

Can the roux gene be mixed with any other color to get sex links? And what are the other sex linked genes

 

[el dorado quail]

So I'm still having runny poops even after the corid dosing. I haven't been able to get a pic but its like a slight orange chocolate brown? No white. Pretty watery. Should I do another 5 day dose?

 

[Kiki]

So I'm still having runny poops even after the corid dosing. I haven't been able to get a pic but its like a slight orange chocolate brown? No white. Pretty watery. Should I do another 5 day dose?

Are you feeding any treats?

 

[Matieus27]

That also reminds me of the roux gene only needs one to express in the female does it act like the barring gene in chickens where the males are darker or since roux is a dilute the males lighter than females?

 

[el dorado quail]

Are you feeding any treats?

Mealworms every morning for the last few weeks. And the occasional wormy apple. They also just stripped the salvia plant that was planted in there at the beginning.

They're also pecking each other like mad. I'm going to do the weird stinky bitter stuff on them tomorrow morning if i can wake up before 8.

 

[Kiki]

Mealworms every morning for the last few weeks. And the occasional wormy apple. They also just stripped the salvia plant that was planted in there at the beginning.

They're also pecking each other like mad. I'm going to do the weird stinky bitter stuff on them tomorrow morning if i can wake up before 8.

Stop the meal worms completely and see if their poop straightens up.

 

[el dorado quail]

Stop the meal worms completely and see if their poop straightens up.

How long do you think it should take if it is the mealworms

 

[R2elk]

Can the roux gene be mixed with any other color to get sex links? And what are the other sex linked genes

According to the You Tube video there are other sex linked colors. The reason the roux and pharaoh were chosen is because they show the greatest difference between the male and female chicks at the time of the hatch.

 

[Maiahr]

@Matieus27 from the video I also understood that there are other sex-linked genes but he didn't mention which.
On your question about % loss.. I get 90% fertility on both chicken and quail eggs with the exception of one quail egg supplier whose eggs were 70% infertile and went to personally kill him afterwards but God must have warned him as he was not at home.. so as texaskiki said - fertility depends on the supplier.
Then from the fertile eggs I usually achieve 75% hatch rate, I am not the best hatcher in the group, I know others achieve 99-100% hatch rate from the fertile eggs. Then from those that hatch you have some that die... With me with smaller numbers I get lower and 0 mortality after hatch. With my first/last big batch of ~100 eggs I had 3% mortality after hatch.

 

[Matieus27]

@Matieus27 from the video I also understood that there are other sex-linked genes but he didn't mention which.
On your question about % loss.. I get 90% fertility on both chicken and quail eggs with the exception of one quail egg supplier whose eggs were 70% infertile and went to personally kill him afterwards but God must have warned him as he was not at home.. so as texaskiki said - fertility depends on the supplier.
Then from the fertile eggs I usually achieve 75% hatch rate, I am not the best hatcher in the group, I know others achieve 99-100% hatch rate from the fertile eggs. Then from those that hatch you have some that die... With me with smaller numbers I get lower and 0 mortality after hatch. With my first/last big batch of ~100 eggs I had 3% mortality after hatch.

Ok so I read a blog or article or something somewhere that the hatcheries typically only get/expect a 70% hatch rate and that was the biggest reason for the question because I was trying to do a little math to figure how many eggs to hatch and when to hatch them so we could eat quail once a week for as long as we wanted to