➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[PoultryCQ]

Here are the chicks:
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Thats a lot of quail chicks! They are so cute!

 

[FloorCandy]

Thats a lot of quail chicks! They are so cute!

I had set 100 eggs, I was hoping to have about 10-15 keepers, and the rest were gonna go to the auction next week. Since the turner wasn’t working the first 10 days I lost a lot, so I’ll keep these for a couple weeks, pick my faves, and sell the rest.

 

[PoultryCQ]

I had set 100 eggs, I was hoping to have about 10-15 keepers, and the rest were gonna go to the auction next week. Since the turner wasn’t working the first 10 days I lost a lot, so I’ll keep these for a couple weeks, pick my faves, and sell the rest.

Do you have a favorite color? Do you choose based on personality, size, or egg production?

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

Had 1 struggling to get out so I helped it. It's by itself in the incubator but has a huge unabsorbed yolk sac. Will wait to see what happens. I think it would have suffocated without help though. Even with my helping the membrane was rubbery tough.

 

[FloorCandy]

Do you have a favorite color? Do you choose based on personality, size, or egg production?

I’ve been working on snowie celadons. My regular celadons are mostly scarlet and Tibetan tuxes, the less pencilling and lacing on the feathers the better. I had ordered snowie hatching eggs, and many of the birds were poor quality so I had very few snowies to start with. I am not concerned about bird or egg size, health and loudness of crow are my biggest concerns along with color and pattern.

Ive been working on healthy double silvers and I recently hatched some albinos by coincidence, so I’m working on healthy all white birds. The albinos are normal size and feather normally, the double silvers are small and tend to feather slowly, with rougher feathers. By selectively breeding my double silvers, I’ve gotten it so none are born with bulging eyes any more, and my 2 recent females are laying normally, the first double silver hen rarely laid, and they were mostly fairy eggs. She had come from the original snowie hatching eggs. The male original is healthy but very small. I crossed him to the healthiest of the snowie hens, and after a couple generations they are much healthier, and have about the same survival rate as normal chicks now.

The doubles are generally blind, but the albinos are not. I have not processed any albinos yet, but the double silvers are very noticeably all white meat. The albinos so far have all 3 been female, I did read somewhere that albino is sex linked, but I can’t find any confirmation, and haven’t hatched enough to say with any certainty. I plan to cross these albinos to their sire, so I’ll hopefully get some males next time around.

 

[PoultryCQ]

2 have hatched by this morning, a pharoah and a falb fee.

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

Well, I culled the chick I helped out of the shell. It got weaker and weaker and I put it out of its misery.

Good news is that I miscounted my eggs. I put in 16, had 14 viable, of which 13 hatched and one was culled. The last one is going on to day 18 so there's certainly still hope.

The dozen I have right now are nice batch, no visible problems so far -- they're warm and cozy and taking care of themselves. I think six are showing some silver coloring. Preserving that line was one of my breeding goals.

 

[PoultryCQ]

Not sure if any of you have experienced this before, its definitely a first for me. One of the quail chicks that hatched attempted a crow today. It did the "head shake" and the crowing sound. Sadly, right when I pulled out the camera it stopped, anyone experience this as well?

 

[PoultryCQ]

Not sure if any of you have experienced this before, its definitely a first for me. One of the quail chicks that hatched attempted a crow today. It did the "head shake" and the crowing sound. Sadly, right when I pulled out the camera it stopped, anyone experience this as well?

Its one day old and crowed 3 times in a row.

 

[FloorCandy]

Not sure if any of you have experienced this before, its definitely a first for me. One of the quail chicks that hatched attempted a crow today. It did the "head shake" and the crowing sound. Sadly, right when I pulled out the camera it stopped, anyone experience this as well?

@Nabiki has a video of one I think. I’ve had a couple. Mine were from Myshire birds and their descendants, and ended up being more towards jumbo sized.