➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[R2elk]

Do I have to create a new login?

You don't have to do anything to just read what is there. You do have to register if you want to ask questions and participate. I believe that many of us used the same user name there as we do here. There was a massive influx of new members when we all went over there while BYC was shut down during the change over from Huddler.

 

[FortCluck]

You don't have to do anything to just read what is there. You do have to register if you want to ask questions and participate. I believe that many of us used the same user name there as we do here. There was a massive influx of new members when we all went over there while BYC was shut down during the change over from Huddler.

I’ll sign up when I get home

 

[Clearwater Chicken]

Recently I saw an article that said bee colonies do better on ley lines and that would bee colonies are usually situated where 3 or more of these lines cross. Thoughts on this?

 

[R2elk]

Recently I saw an article that said bee colonies do better on ley lines and that would bee colonies are usually situated where 3 or more of these lines cross. Thoughts on this?

I have no thoughts about that at all. I stick my hives where they will get sunshine and are at least semi protected from the prevailing wind.

 

[Clearwater Chicken]

I have no thoughts about that at all. I stick my hives where they will get sunshine and are at least semi protected from the prevailing wind.

This is what’s i do to. I just thought it was interesting

 

[FortCluck]

@muddy75 or anyone who can answer...

Coldest it’s going to get is 46 at night which is tomorrow. Then it’s 60s after that at night and 70+ during the day.

Will my 3 week old quail be good. They’re not on heat in the house and it’s 70 at all times.

 

[Chicka_deee]

I'd cut it.

Is he black!?

Checked again this morning and it fell off he still has a little bit hanging from him.
No he’s not black, he’s really pretty though
Are black quail rare and when they feather out are they all black?? That would be cool!

 

[RUNuts]

@muddy75 or anyone who can answer...

Coldest it’s going to get is 46 at night which is tomorrow. Then it’s 60s after that at night and 70+ during the day.

Will my 3 week old quail be good. They’re not on heat in the house and it’s 70 at all times.

Yep. My 2 week olds survived 50°F last week. Keep them out of the wind. Are there enough for them to huddle? I had 21 together.

3 weeks should be feathered enough. Are they acclimated? Mine had been out a week.

 

[CindyinSD]

Yes, doing research is very important. I started getting a nuc. THE other way to obtain a colony of bees is to buy a package of them. Bee aware of the varorra mite as that is arguably the worst problem for them right now

No, a queen without a colony will die.

The colony will make new queen cells for itself and raise a number of queens when the nectar flow (abundant) and hive size (too small) stimulate them to do so. The new queens will gather bees to themselves and swarm (leave the hive to start a new colony). Sometimes several swarms may emerge in a short period of time. The worker bees will raise up new queens and when ready, will sting the old queen to death and replace her with a new queen.

If a beekeeper wants to change the character of his hive to (for example) make it better-adapted to survive in his climate, he may kill the current queen and introduce a new queen of the type he would like to nudge his colony toward. The queen is the mother of her entire hive and also completely dependent on them for her survival, feeding, grooming, etc. She spends her whole life laying eggs. When she slows down her production, the workers will replace and destroy her--but she still lives much longer than the average worker bee.

This is all just book-learning, so take it with the spirit of the skeptic, but the point is that, however abhorrent it may seem to us, killing the queen to replace her with a more genetically suitable queen isn't an unusual event in the life of the hive.

 

[FortCluck]

Yep. My 2 week olds survived 50°F last week. Keep them out of the wind. Are there enough for them to huddle? I had 21 together.

3 weeks should be feathered enough. Are they acclimated? Mine had been out a week.

Mine have been inside. I’m going to wait till after tomorrow. I only have 3 that are 3 weeks. The other 20 were born yesterday. So I should take them off heat at 2 weeks and inside?