➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

Kiki, I read through that other thread, it looks pretty interesting. I had previously read that there was some lethality with the Golden Manchurian color mutation, but haven't had any of those birds (I'm pretty sure) so I didn't worry too much about it. It's interesting to learn about the lethality with the white mutation too - I have only hatched 5 white (some with head spots) birds, and of those two had eye problems too. The eggs were purchased and not from my birds.
The first one (pure white) had eye problems and didn't live much past 2 weeks as it pretty much couldn't see at all. I am still not comfortable killing chicks if it seems like they are trying to live and don't seem to be in pain so I let it keep trying when I probably should have taken action. It was a runt but it seemed content with life. By the time it passed the others who hatched same day were twice its size. Second and third ones had spots on the heads, they seemed more skittish and neurotic than the other colors and luckily they turned out to be boys so they went to freezer camp. Four and five (both all white) were in the group that just matured within the past 2-3 weeks. One is normal and one has eye problems but not as severe as the first one. When it hatched the eyes were super big compared to its head and had a blue cast. As it aged the eyes became more normal in appearance but you can still tell there is something wrong with it. Physically she was runtier than the others but only delayed size-wise by about a week as they were growing out. Both turned out to be hens and are both laying, the one with the eye issues is still a bit daintier than the other. They will both go to freezer camp pretty soon.
I have pretty much decided that white quail are not allowed in my flock and will either sell or eat any white quail that I hatch. The *fun* thing is that I have a gold and white pied/tuxedo male paired with some italian females, so a lot of his chicks are hatching yellow. They seem to be feathering out as pale italians or gold and whites but as chicks they really look like they might be pure white and making me worry.

I'm going to try to get to that thread to read today.
I need to learn quail stuff.

 

[Kiki]

And finally some pictures of some of my quail. They were not thrilled with me taking pictures and were running all over the place. The red ones are kind of a chocolatey red, but I think the color might be affected by hormones and lighting, they seemed much more red when they were younger, they are several months old right now. The ones I have been calling red pharaohs are the result of breeding a male traditional pharaoh with a red female. I think they might be sex linked, or I just need to hatch more since all of the red pharaohs I have hatched so far are hens.
First two pics are same hen.
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Picture below has red hen on the right, traditional pharaoh in the middle, tibetan/brown bottom left, traditional pharaoh middle left, and red pharaoh in top left center.
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I am going to need help in a week or two to try to sex my quail.
I will be bugging you!

 

[Kiki]

I LOVE Sherlock!!!! I tried Supernatural, but I could not get into it. You're 1 for 3, Banty.

She hooked me on Sherlock.
I'm working on trying to like SN now.
Dr Who isn't on NF and I am glad.

 

[Kiki]

You are 1/3. Banty has perfect taste!

 

[Conan]

I fell asleep and was woken up by a dream.

I can relate a lot of dreams to things I watch, maybe more than half. The very bad ones are the same old nightmares but “triggered” by whatever stupid scene got to me from whatever we were watching that day.
At one point I had a “dream journal” where I forced myself to write down everything I could remember as soon as I woke up, and I very quickly started having crazy lucid dreams.. that got really weird and messed with my head and memory so I stopped that.
If anyone actually wants to remember their dreams better, I highly recommend trying that. I don’t, so.. but it’s easy to do and doesn’t take long to start working.

I have thought about this but I never knew anyone who actually tried it - good to know! Maybe I will give it a shot. I had weird ass dreams last night too. Sharks and giant waves and VHS tapes ... Yeah.

 

[Morrigan]

Very interesting to hear about everyone's dreams. I go through periods where I have vivid dreams as well. Some are awesome. I can fly! I'm saving people's lives! Some are horrible. It's weird. A whole parallel life.

 

[Conan]

She hooked me on Sherlock.
I'm working on trying to like SN now.
Dr Who isn't on NF and I am glad.

SN is just terrible. It's like a crappy teenager show with awful acting.
Those Chooks have the worst taste - other than Sherlock. Gotta love that show.

 

[Morrigan]

Does the cheese melt?
What do you do drink the milk then pick up the cheese and eat it?

I wondered that too.

 

[Cyprus]

Aw, I feel so bad for the garbage man that came by today.
There were about 4 50lb bags out there with junk from the barn and he got every single bag up into the truck, which is great. But one of them he pulled out, set on the ground, inspected, nudged with his shoe and prodded with a stick. No idea what was in it but after getting it into the truck he shook his head.
Oh, and he threw the 3 plastic bags with dead chicks in them into the recycling part. Nasty surprise for the recycling plant workers.

I'm sorry garbage man. Next week I'll give you some brownies or something.

 

[RosieR]

@KikisGirls i got a yellow one!