➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Matieus27]

Try a brighter light.
These vids are with a good light.

What kind of light are you using

 

[Kiki]

What kind of light are you using

Here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...a-chat-thread.1229923/page-1953#post-20331069

Streamlight 500 lumens

 

[RUNuts]

500 Lumens good for lighter colored eggs. My 600 Lumen failed on brown eggs and the darker quail eggs. I got a 1000 lumen laser beam. Sucker gets hot. A few of the darker eggs are still a challenge. Worst part is blinding yourself when the incubator is open. "I see stars!"

Lock down begins Sunday or Monday. 32 eggs in the incubator. Playing with housing to figure out if I can get another hatching in before it gets cold. As it is, these will be 8 weeks in November. Just need housing until November.

Really looking like converting a tractor to quail pen. Challenge is getting them out later.

 

[BReeder!]

the Jumbo are best to eat right? As they have most meat? So you are breeding for eggs?

@Matieus27 if you are only breeding quail for meat why do you need sex-linked and why don't you breed Jumboes?

I raise them for meat and eggs, but I raise Jumbo Browns, with the exception of a silver male we rescued. The JBs are large and easy to sex.

 

[Kiki]

 

[CoturnixComplex]

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It's weird!!! I like it!!!

Nice blue and pansy in there too.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Tomorrow is BUNNY DAY! And quail too technically,

This is nice. It feels like finding the other bookend. I looked for a doe for a looooong time. And I'm actually picking up one for my boy's breeder too so I get to enjoy double the cuteness for a night.

If all goes well basically that pair alone will be subsidizing most of my operating costs next summer onwards (kits sell for $100-300 depending on how far into the the corners of CA you're willing to drive. I'll list 'em mostly in the bay area, heheheh).

The quail I'm grabbing are real nutty - I do think they are also pansy+pearl based on the stock the seller has. They're tricolor! They look like what they call pansy they have in the EU which is a different gene and super cool.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Tomorrow is BUNNY DAY! And quail too technically,

This is nice. It feels like finding the other bookend. I looked for a doe for a looooong time. And I'm actually picking up one for my boy's breeder too so I get to enjoy double the cuteness for a night.

If all goes well basically that pair alone will be subsidizing most of my operating costs next summer onwards (kits sell for $100-300 depending on how far into the the corners of CA you're willing to drive. I'll list 'em mostly in the bay area, heheheh).

The quail I'm grabbing are real nutty - I do think they are also pansy+pearl based on the stock the seller has. They're tricolor! They look like what they call pansy they have in the EU which is a different gene and super cool.

That’s amazing!! I’m super excited for you!! You’ll have to post pictures of them when you get them!!

 

[muddy75]

so of course i didn’t sleep well last night but the inspection is over!! the animal control officer that was out with the city code enforcement officer said he loved my aviary but basically the city wasted his time and ours by bringing him out here because my set-up was more than humane (no overcrowding and no mistreatment). they both commented on how beautiful all of my birds are. As for the ordinance, until someone gets it rewritten....it’s limit 8. if it is outside and has feathers or fur, it is livestock. However, they closed the case and am allowing us to use our discretion but if a new complaint comes up, I can only have 8 outside upon investigation. So my future with quail is going to have to be cage-kept in the shed.

 

[mixedUPturk]

so of course i didn’t sleep well last night but the inspection is over!! the animal control officer that was out with the city code enforcement officer said he loved my aviary but basically the city wasted his time and ours by bringing him out here because my set-up was more than humane (no overcrowding and no mistreatment). they both commented on how beautiful all of my birds are. As for the ordinance, until someone gets it rewritten....it’s limit 8. if it is outside and has feathers or fur, it is livestock. However, they closed the case and am allowing us to use our discretion but if a new complaint comes up, I can only have 8 outside upon investigation. So my future with quail is going to have to be cage-kept in the shed.

sounds like they were very reasonable and just holding down paper that needs to be changed. So will you be the one to fight hard enough to have it rewritten? Did u ever put up a post in the laws and ordinances section?