➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[sealer39]

Did you glue the plates together or just use those clips?

I printed the same turner and have never had that issue, with 3 hatches so far. I use the same shelf liner.

I clipped them in place. I’m afraid if I had glued them something would have broken. Everything was wedged together pretty tight when I found it. I’m really surprised it didn’t break an egg.

 

[sealer39]

Also, these are jumbo eggs I’m setting. Some of them wouldn’t fit in the outer ring. So I had to put the larger ones in the middle and the smaller ones in the outer ring.

I’m still happy with the quail turner. It maximizes the amount of eggs that can be put in a NR360. I’ll just wait until lockdown to install the shelf liner in the future.

 

[FloorCandy]

Also, these are jumbo eggs I’m setting. Some of them wouldn’t fit in the outer ring. So I had to put the larger ones in the middle and the smaller ones in the outer ring.

I’m still happy with the quail turner. It maximizes the amount of eggs that can be put in a NR360. I’ll just wait until lockdown to install the shelf liner in the future.

If using jumbo eggs, my advice is to mark the top side of each egg and check it after every turn for several hours to be sure each egg is turning. Even with standard sized eggs I jiggle the tray several times per day because they do sometimes get stuck at a weird angle.

 

[FloorCandy]

About 2 weeks ago I hatched a ton of my half celadon half snowies. A customer had requested 50 straight run to grow out to eat, so I filled the brinsea hoping to pick and choose several to keep for my snowie celadon project. I ended up keeping the best 7 and I gave the lady the extras beyond 50 for free. One of these 7 has become quite beautiful at just under 2 weeks:

It seems like it might be SSC, roux and fee. I’m excited to see what it turns into but I feel pretty certain it’s a boy, since it’s so small, and just less plump looking

Here’s a couple size pics:

 

[Nabiki]

I have two button chicks left, and they're calling and calling for their missing friends. Someone just took their friends home.

 

[FloorCandy]

I have two button chicks left, and they're calling and calling for their missing friends. Someone just took their friends home.

Awwwwww cute and sad.

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

About 2 weeks ago I hatched a ton of my half celadon half snowies. A customer had requested 50 straight run to grow out to eat, so I filled the brinsea hoping to pick and choose several to keep for my snowie celadon project. I ended up keeping the best 7 and I gave the lady the extras beyond 50 for free. One of these 7 has become quite beautiful at just under 2 weeks:

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It seems like it might be SSC, roux and fee. I’m excited to see what it turns into but I feel pretty certain it’s a boy, since it’s so small, and just less plump looking

Here’s a couple size pics:
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Let me know what you end up calling it. I have one too. I'm new, so my color vocabulary is limited to really basic names, like white, grey and brown. So far, according to my limited knowledge, mine is grey.

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

Let me know what you end up calling it. I have one too. I'm new, so my color vocabulary is limited to really basic names, like white, grey and brown. So far, according to my limited knowledge, mine is grey.

@FloorCandy , its face used to be yellow too. It just turned 4 weeks old, so maybe a few weeks older than yours?

 

[FloorCandy]

Let me know what you end up calling it. I have one too. I'm new, so my color vocabulary is limited to really basic names, like white, grey and brown. So far, according to my limited knowledge, this one is grey.

I don’t know the official names of all the SSC and pastel variations. If I were to call it something, maybe copper fee? In my experience the purply tint compared to the other gray ones will mature into more of a really faded light orangy gray. I have one now who was the same color as a chick, maybe a bit darker. She’s like a rusty silver now, but she has blue eyes and this one doesn’t, so it could be a totally different mix. The originals were from the snowie mix from Myshire, which is SSC based, but it’s kind of a mixed bag with the way all the genes interact. I know it has one copy of fee because the males with the hens both had 2 copies and the hens had none. The males were silver manchurian and silver Italian, the hens half were scarlet and Egyptian, the rest Rosetta. So there are a bunch of genes in play. I’m excited to see the final product.

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

I don’t know the official names of all the SSC and pastel variations. If I were to call it something, maybe copper fee? In my experience the purply tint compared to the other gray ones will mature into more of a really faded light orangy gray. I have one now who was the same color as a chick, maybe a bit darker. She’s like a rusty silver now, but she has blue eyes and this one doesn’t, so it could be a totally different mix. The originals were from the snowie mix from Myshire, which is SSC based, but it’s kind of a mixed bag with the way all the genes interact. I know it has one copy of fee because the males with the hens both had 2 copies and the hens had none. The males were silver manchurian and silver Italian, the hens half were scarlet and Egyptian, the rest Rosetta. So there are a bunch of genes in play. I’m excited to see the final product.

Wow, that is -- like -- so much more than just "grey."

I have no idea where my birds originally came from, just that the female is a silver roux type and the male is Tibetan. Of course, I could also have those color names wrong too. . .I'll just hang out here at BYC and try to pick up from your and every else's expertise.