➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[FloorCandy]

First eggs today, yay! The 70ish Coturnix birds are exactly 7 weeks old now, with a lot of crowing from the fellas but I haven't seen any fighting or foam balls.

Where were these from? Southwest gamebirds variety? Or was that someone else? They’re lovely.

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

Where were these from? Southwest gamebirds variety? Or was that someone else? They’re lovely.

Thank you! Yes, they're the "Breeder's Choice" from Southwest Gamebirds. This pic is a good representation of those that made it to this point.

 

[muddy75]

Here are many of them crowded around the waterer that I had forgotten to return full the night before so they were thirsty.

if you have that many outside, you might consider 5gal waterer. i only have to fill it 1-2x per week. i also keep a 2.5 gal waterer in there too.

 

[muddy75]

i had a little “incident” this afternoon. i’m not exactly sure if my temp is a little hot or if I mixed up some eggs, but I had 2 of the SF hatch in the brinsea before i removed the turner!!! one little guy was stuck on the side but he looks to be ok now that I got the turner out and moved them to the brooder.

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

OMG. Each successive round of quail get bigger and bigger. Pretty soon they'll be bantams. Pics forthcoming.

FWIW, I think it's because my first rounds were smaller than they should have been -- my inexperience.

 

[muddy75]

i moved the last 2 unhatched eggs over with the others. i candled them and at least 1 was drawn down so i don’t think i got any mixed up. it was just a fluke early hatch of 2 eggs that were closer to the heat source

 

[FloorCandy]

Just captured a great pic of one of the albino ladies:

I just built this small cage for them, I plan to make a thread for it later, but she looked so pretty! They just moved outside, and she can definitely still see. I have them under the porch, in a shady, darker, corner, with a good amount of tarp overhang, because I don’t want them losing their sight.

 

[muddy75]

Little Miss Frieda is back in the shed brooder She was attacked ``again yesterday

 

[Kiki]

some of it is
i was in a hurry i will crush a big batch this afternoon for these and the SF crew!!

 

[Kiki]

I got feed today.
@R2elk it's 28%