➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[muddy75]

I think I have some snowies.

i think you do too from the last pics!!

 

[Kiki]

i think you do too from the last pics!!

I will be taking more pictures tomorrow.
They look more different than yesterday.

 

[muddy75]

I will be taking more pictures tomorrow.
They look more different than yesterday.

i’ve got to get some more pics too.....i’m pretty sure “casper” is a male and i’ve got half of the unknown sister batch out with him.....the rest are in shed brooder. I need to take the poults outside to play again tomorrow too.....we have to let them in the bunny area though because sometime yesterday tom got pecked pretty good. we put neosporin on it and it didn’t seem to bother him at all today. actually since there’s no chickens out there anymore, i may run their heater to the coop and let them stay outside now!!

 

[el dorado quail]

Poor guy..I think that poop means he isn't eating.
Is your mom home?
Can you sneak and help him with out her seeing?

I need this guy's genes otherwise he would have been culled. He's living in a cube in the laundry room for now. I think once he can see out of both eyes he'll be good.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

i guess it’s a true “dirty” pearl then! 3-4 weeks old?

Take those pics of your albino before it keels over ! I will make the albino page soon.

Yep, these are all between like 4 and 8 weeks.

I think I have some snowies.

You do! (or lavender manchurian; they look a lot alike and keep fooling even me)

I would consider the pearl types like 70% feather sexable in my opinion? You tell the same way you do with Italians. Brown head markings and solid chest = male black head markings and speckled chest = female BUT they're way more prone to random in between weirdos that make you second guess until someone lays an egg.

Add in the silver gene for snowies and you can *only* tell by the chest markings or lack thereof and it gets even harder and less certain.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I need this guy's genes otherwise he would have been culled. He's living in a cube in the laundry room for now. I think once he can see out of both eyes he'll be good.

Nutterbutter must live! I want his babies too. I have a crazy red bluff hookup with every shade of German pastel under the sun now, but they are not celadon.

 

[el dorado quail]

Nutterbutter must live! I want his babies too. I have a crazy red bluff hookup with every shade of German pastel under the sun now, but they are not celadon.

Batch 2 have tons of nutterbutters and in betweens. All kinds of weird browns

 

[mixedUPturk]

Y'all I'm about to liquidate my flock. In a giant blender.

We're up to 2 foamy watery saliva spitters

Painted the worst 25/40 babies being pecked with that stinky purplish stuff rooster booster makes. Not sure if it helps.

The older batch's boys almost scalped the favorite female and have been raping the younger ones. I separated 2 males from everyone and they *seemed* ok. Woke up this morning to one completely scalped. He's alive but one side of his head is swelling and his eye is oozing liquid. His ear was also bleeding this morning so hopefully his brain won't burst...and now his poop and foam are neon seafoam green.

SHOOT ME NOWWWW.

Are the quail spitting up when you pick them up? Im sorry i ment to ask the last time

 

[el dorado quail]

Are the quail spitting up when you pick them up? Im sorry i ment to ask the last time

Yes

 

[mixedUPturk]

Yes

Thats spit up dear! Not illness

I wondered if youd seen it or heard of it before when you mentioned it last and nobody responded i ment to but i get sidtracked easily im so sorry i realize you couldve gained alot of comfort from our knowledge but late is better than never so know that is compleatly normal for quail to spit up on you when theyre scared because youve picked em up.