➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[muddy75]

I had a couple bantams go back to back broody so I threw a bunch on our own eggs under them to stop them from hogging the nests. The 1st one is out there with 10 little buggers, the other is due to hatch early next week. Right in the middle of a nice cold spell! I need to build some more laying boxes.
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[CindyinSD]

There's so much to read out there about hatching & incubating, hard to know what to believe & what not, right? Roosters would be near extinction by now if it were true, at least in the backyard chicken business.


I think that makes ALOT of us!!!
Admitting you have a problem is the 1st step in getting better!


I don't know, it looked like they were running down hill half of the time, and uphill the other half. I think I saw them circulating a petition for signatures for better living conditions!

As soon as I turned the little buggers lose in their new pen a bully showed its ugly little face, I slapped it in an isolation pen for a few hours. When I returned the little bugger it was on its bestest behavior. There are 9 per pen, 4' x 2'6". They act like they've never seen so much room. The 2 groups only have a piece of hardware cloth between them so they can become familiar with each other a bit too I suppose. I've got some artificial ivy to go in there too, and I need to figure out something for hides. Any ideas?
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Anymore guesses on color varieties, now that they're older, 3 weeks old now?

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They look so happy in their new digs! People use upside down pots, butter tubs, etc., with little doors cut out. You could have lots of fun making them creative little hidey-houses. Or if you don’t have time at the moment, you could also lean scrap pieces of board or plywood against the walls here and there.

 

[Pennys Mama]

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They look so happy in their new digs! People use upside down pots, butter tubs, etc., with little doors cut out. You could have lots of fun making them creative little hidey-houses. Or if you don’t have time at the moment, you could also lean scrap pieces of board or plywood against the walls here and there.[/QUOTE]
I've got scrap wood, boards, tree limbs laying around. I think I've got a flower pot or two too. I've gotta add their sand boxes as well. They seemed to double in size when I put them in their new pens, they all fluffed out their feathers!!!

 

[Bird nut 2000]

Is this pritty quaily a boy or girl?

 

[R2elk]

I agree although oddly it does say in the article they’re still genetically male? Although I feel like if it was possible it would have already been implemented.

If you read the article carefully, their end objective is to produce all male chicks not female chicks. They had an undesired objective based on the false belief that chickens like reptiles can have their sex changed after fertilization. The whole thing is bogus. I went back and read it carefully because I wanted to see if the date of the article was April 1 but it wasn't.

 

[Matieus27]

I can’t wait to start seeing eggs in my quail pen.

 

[muddy75]

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Is this pritty quaily a boy or girl?

looks like boy to me, but definitely beautiful!

 

[muddy75]

@Texas Kiki final October count is 45 chicks
@Nabiki check your numbers as I believe some hatches missing. @Cedar Creek Farm Lady make sure you get info added to hatch list

 

[FortCluck]

with just 12 in a cage, you can also consider adding a cozy coop flat panel heater if necessary....
we are panicking right now too as winter set in about a month or so earlier than we planned.....lows supposed to be below freezing most days between now and April!!
we butchered 5 today and hoping to do 5 more each day until I get numbers down enough.....(first really bad day is thursday because rain all day and them plummets to 19 for the low)

Our winter started early too. It was 80s then dropped to 50s and it's in the 30s at night. We had to insulate our coop yesterday but didn't get finished because the chickens kicked us out when it got dark.

 

[muddy75]

Huge Congratulations to @007Sean for new moderator position!! does this mean we have to be good now?