➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[blackoaktammy]

What can you do with such small eggs???

Hatch them!

I do boil them too. They make great hard boiled eggs for salad. Or special treats for 4 year old nephews who sometimes need convincing they have the best aunt ever

 

[blackoaktammy]

It's precious. Is this name something someone made up or is it a real thing?

Thanks! When some first identified her for me I thought it was a made up name . Since then I have seen people looking for them. It's just not a well known color mutation.

 

[blackoaktammy]

It's a fake coturnix egg.

 

[blackoaktammy]

I've never had one s*** in the incubator before.

My buttons do it All. The. Time.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Originality comes secondary to time spent practicing. While there are absolutely some savants around, I highly doubt you know two of them.
I read an article a while ago about this topic. I'll have to see if I can find it. I can tell you from personal experience that I most certainly did NOT feel like I had any musical ability before I started learning. It didn't come naturally to me at all. Even the old masters spent hundreds of hours at the piano in their very early childhood. You listen to music, don't you? The fact you can appreciate it proves you're not clueless about music.

Hmmm... you’re probably right there

And I’m sure you can make enjoyable music without necessarily being amazing haha

Although wait. Maybe they’re so good cause they practice and a lot of people in the genre don’t....

I would love to read that article!! Sounds very interesting!!

And hmmm that’s true. But there was also nothing else to do back then

And thanks! That makes sense. I never thought of it like that before.

 

[blackoaktammy]

What a beautiful bird!!!
I'm gonna hafta get me some Button eggs to hatch next, dadgumit....
My 90 coturnix eggs arrived today!!!
Gonna get busy real quick around here.

Buttons are addicting. I just wanted ONE PAIR. That was almost 200 birds ago I love playing with genetics, and with all the color and pattern mutations, I think they'll keep me busy for quite a while.

Hope you have a good hatch with the coturnix!

 

[RUNuts]

Originality comes secondary to time spent practicing. While there are absolutely some savants around, I highly doubt you know two of them.
I read an article a while ago about this topic. I'll have to see if I can find it. I can tell you from personal experience that I most certainly did NOT feel like I had any musical ability before I started learning. It didn't come naturally to me at all. Even the old masters spent hundreds of hours at the piano in their very early childhood. You listen to music, don't you? The fact you can appreciate it proves you're not clueless about music.

The part of music that bores me is that they play the same songs the same way each day. Part of the attraction of live performances (without crowds, please), is the originality or spontaneity of the performance. If you want "true to the original (recording)", then listen to the recording on the format of your choice.

Street jazz. There is no score. Flow.

Lots of things are practice. Music & golf for examples. Repetition is boring. Batty says she must complete a project. I'll get 70-90% through and I'm done. Close enough for government work. The fun part is the design. I could complete it, but why? I figured out golf. Bored me. Hit the little white ball the exact same way holding the stick the same way ad nauseum. The ball doesn't move like baseball. Hit the aspirin.

 

[BantyChooks]

Hmmm... you’re probably right there

And I’m sure you can make enjoyable music without necessarily being amazing haha

Although wait. Maybe they’re so good cause they practice and a lot of people in the genre don’t....

I would love to read that article!! Sounds very interesting!!

And hmmm that’s true. But there was also nothing else to do back then

And thanks! That makes sense. I never thought of it like that before.

Exactly. I'm no concert pianist, I don't have that kind of time and it's not my life goal. But I have fun at it, and I can play most pieces that I want to. (Except the fantaisie-impromptu... I've tried, but Chopin must have been on crack when he wrote it.)

 

[R2elk]

I hold the quail and extend the leg, then gently mash the ball with needle nose pliers on the edges so the toe isn't mashed along with the ball. I tried soaking them, but it was a disaster. By the time the ball was soft, the quail was in shock.

Get a pair of small flush edge dikes. Make sure that you are not cutting too close to the toe and cut a piece off. Once you have the ball open, it will quickly absorb soapy water and crumble with a slight pressure. The wetting is not necessary as you can pretty quickly crumble it off once you have the ball opened.

 

[BantyChooks]

The part of music that bores me is that they play the same songs the same way each day. Part of the attraction of live performances (without crowds, please), is the originality or spontaneity of the performance. If you want "true to the original (recording)", then listen to the recording on the format of your choice.

Street jazz. There is no score. Flow.

Lots of things are practice. Music & golf for examples. Repetition is boring. Batty says she must complete a project. I'll get 70-90% through and I'm done. Close enough for government work. The fun part is the design. I could complete it, but why? I figured out golf. Bored me. Hit the little white ball the exact same way holding the stick the same way ad nauseum. The ball doesn't move like baseball. Hit the aspirin.

Jazz is just wrong notes with style.
Live orchestras are just on a whole different level from the recordings. There's something nice about listening to a live piece you know well. You can kind of dig into it a bit more. I find that the first time I hear a piece I have a hard time understanding it as a whole, but as I hear it again and again, the themes and the variations start to be clearer to me. Individual playing style is also important. Even the simplest piece (Fur Elise, for example) can sound breathtaking when done by somebody that's truly good at playing. I get your point, though.