➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

DH is finishing dinner and I still have a few hundred eggs to weigh, wash, and package!!

You better go get busy.

 

[James Marie]

I really like making my fancy critter breeding projects way too involved and complex, to the point that I never finish them because it would take decades. When it was fish it was alpha sailfin lyretail swordtails. With bunnies it is broken blue rex-coated mandolin semi-giants. Now I am also dreaming of jumbo curly-feathered celadon auto-sexing roux-charcoal quail.

@James Marie did a great write-up on fb I liked that addressed this and other breeding considerations that I would love him to post here (I would've commented straight on it, Robbie, but I don't have a fb! It is great. I feel like there's a marked lack in detailed, quail-specific breeding advice out there compared to other critters and I'm thrilled with everyone helping to change that).

Like I said to Turk earlier, I have acquired a lot of breeding techniques over the decades (that can't be true) I've been breeding critters, but I've always had too much species ADD to ever really accomplish much other than multiplying neat things and passing them along. Which can still be great - propagating endangered bettas was amazing! - but making it to the 3rd and 4th generation in a project and seeing consistent improvement is really satisfying.

I feel like I will probably breed quail and rabbits as long as we live here or somewhere similar. But, not going to lie - we ever get real land they are most likely going to get phased out for ducks and goats and teeny tiny cows.

Thanks for the tag and kind words. You understand the article in the spirt it was written. I wrote the article late one night while I couldn't sleep after another quail hobby breeder ripped me up on the phone for calling him out online about a post that was total BS about breeding coturnix. I'll post it on a new thread just in case it goes south by people being offended by it. I don't want it causing strife on this thread which is totally awesome.

 

[Kiki]

Thanks for the tag and kind words. You understand the article in the spirt it was written. I wrote the article late one night while I couldn't sleep after another quail hobby breeder ripped me up on the phone for calling him out online about a post that was total BS about breeding coturnix. I'll post it on a new thread just in case it goes south by people being offended by it. I don't want it causing strife on this thread which is totally awesome.

I don't mind you posting it here.



But it will probably get more views/reach more people if you start a new thread.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Thanks for the tag and kind words. You understand the article in the spirt it was written. I wrote the article late one night while I couldn't sleep after another quail hobby breeder ripped me up on the phone for calling him out online about a post that was total BS about breeding coturnix. I'll post it on a new thread just in case it goes south by people being offended by it. I don't want it causing strife on this thread which is totally awesome.

Yeah sorry I meant general BYC "here" - I agree it'd be a lot of info for anyone to discuss on this thread haha. Sounds great!

Are you planning on dogs too?

I have one of those too, and three cats!

Oh and decades? Plural??

Okay I exaggerated a little.

It is 19 years if you count from when I started with mollies and guppies as a wee one.

Old person at heart or actual old person?

The line is becoming blurred.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I have one of those too, and three cats!

Nice!!! I don’t have a dog anymore

We did but we put him down in December

Almost a year ago already. I can’t believe it.

ANYWAY.

So no dog now but I eventually want another one. Preferably multiple! At least like 3-5. Or even more maybe. definitely at least 2 though.

And for now I have one cat, 4 goldfish, and 11 chickens.

Hopefully soon to be quail.

Maybe next year. Or end of this year.

Okay I exaggerated a little.

It is 19 years if you count from when I started with mollies and guppies as a wee one.

That’s still a long time!! I was only 6 years old then.

The line is becoming blurred.

I’m sure you’re not old!!

 

[muddy75]

ok some “pre-game” stats for everyone....I stopped at 14 cartons or 336 eggs......keep in mind these eggs have been refrigerated “unwashed” for well over 1 month. They are all from mixed flock of coturnix hens.
9g or less = 10%
10 g = 20%
11 g = 25%
12g = 30%
13-14g = 15%

 

[Kiki]

 

[ShrekDawg]

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Your symbols are so weird lol

 

[Nabiki]

*sigh* You see that first pip, and you expect to see more.

If a pip doesn't develop into a zip in 24 hours, is it pretty safe to assume it's not going to?

 

[muddy75]

*sigh* You see that first pip, and you expect to see more.

If a pip doesn't develop into a zip in 24 hours, is it pretty safe to assume it's not going to?

the odds go way down past 24 hours but could still hatch normally.....