➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[007Sean]

i still can’t tell difference between male and female....I’m kinda scared now that I only have 1 female!! DH has agreed to let me incubate more next spring because if only 1 female, i will have to remove 3 males

Yep, can't feather sex them puppies!
Some peeps can tell by their spurs but both male and females can have spurs...not a 'for sure' thing. Most of the time males are larger but that too, isn't a be all end all for id'ing sex.

 

[muddy75]

@Texas Kiki......i was going through my pics last night and found my loner chick (in case you do want to keep the meanie)

 

[muddy75]

Yep, can't feather sex them puppies!
Some peeps can tell by their spurs but both male and females can have spurs...not a 'for sure' thing. Most of the time males are larger but that too, isn't a be all end all for id'ing sex.

i’ve been looking for spurs, but none of mine have them! and can’t wrangle them close enough together to effectively compare size

 

[007Sean]

i’ve been looking for spurs, but none of mine have them! and can’t wrangle them close enough together to effectively compare size

They don't have what you would normally attribute to a spur. They are more like 'bumps'. Let me find a pick and I'll post it.

 

[Pennys Mama]

I missed like 2000 posts I had a weird couple of last weeks so I haven’t been able to keep up so I just skipped them I read over some but not many have I missed anything important?

@Texas Kiki had 2 hatch, she's got a meanie trying to kill its sibling.

the numbers are for adults....there can be more per cage as they are growing out. and assuming a 50% hatch on 90 eggs you are only 9 over. then assume 50% males that will have to go by 8 weeks. if you are considering another level of cages 2x9, i would recommend one as brooder/grow-out....look at it as a learning experience and basically you just took the fast route to quail self-sufficiency!!
I otoh know better!! my homegrowns have always been 75+% fertile with 80+% hatch so setting 80 eggs was ridiculously stupid!! But we will have plenty in the freezer this winter!!

I like your math! I know it'll go smoother once the culling & processing begin.

speaking of winter and too many quail.....we are planning to process (probably 20 or so today) should I take video??

Absofreakinlutely!

View attachment 1950592 @Texas Kiki......i was going through my pics last night and found my loner chick (in case you do want to keep the meanie)

Hopefully she keeps it, it'd barely be big enough to season a bowl of Ramen-Noodles.....

 

[Pennys Mama]

What will a pollet that is about to lay do before she does lay?

I swear that when I read this post it sounded like the beginning of a bad joke!!!
Now read it in the same voice as you would "What would you call it if a Jew, a Catholic and a Budist walked into a bar?"

 

[muddy75]

@Cedar Creek Farm Lady.....out of curiosity.....is the “building” that you have built your quail cages in dedicated to quail only or is it multi-purpose and just happens to be where you put cages? i ask because it looks like similar design to what we would consider for aviary frame should we ever build another.

 

[Matieus27]

I can't believe that I am excited that he is a boy.
I hope he doesn't kill my girls or I hope they don't kill him.
I'm wondering if I should wait until it gets dark to try this.

Im glad your big meanie turned out be a boy now breed for size and then start trying to breed for temperment

 

[Pennys Mama]

@Cedar Creek Farm Lady.....out of curiosity.....is the “building” that you have built your quail cages in dedicated to quail only or is it multi-purpose and just happens to be where you put cages? i ask because it looks like similar design to what we would consider for aviary frame should we ever build another.

Originally it was one side for me & poultry & the other side for DH. I have confiscated it 100%, he has a new shed & shop. So this side is the same dimension as the side the chickens have, except the fully enclosed "yard" off of the chicken side. I was thinking about shoring the quail side up so some could be on the ground loose... anyways, it'll be chicken & guineas on one side and quail on the other.

 

[Matieus27]

There is way to much to read to get caught up I can’t do it I give up