Brown Coturnix (Pharaoh) Quail eggs - LA

[Epona142]

Where can I find a egg turner for quail eggs? I have a still-air Little Giant incubator, I believe the 9200.
(Nevermind! Found the replacement trays for my egg turner!

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I plan on putting in a batch of RIR and RIRxBR eggs come the 22nd, so when those hatch I would looove to buy some of these quail eggs. I've always wanted quail, but never had an incubator before! I just got mine as an early Christmas present.

Also, can I please see a picture of your quail? Are these common quail? There seem to be lots of coturnix quail, unless I'm just confused Lol.

Do you mind if I PM you after I finish my first hatch? Sorry for all the pestering as well.

 

[luvmychix]

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There are more than one kind, yes...... And these are the common browns... I got my quail egg turners at the CO-OP for i think $20. I will go take some pix of them tomorrow sometime and post them on here if you would like. PM me whenever your ready..

 

[Epona142]

Thanks! I will check back tomorrow.

 

[PassthePeace1]

Can I just use an egg carton and cut out holes in the bottom to fit the quail eggs. I just realized I don't have any quail size trays. I bought one of those cabnit type incubator off of craiglist. They just came with the standard open trays, without any type of eggholders.....while I had planned on using cut away egg cartons for the chicken eggs, I hadn't even thought about the size of quail eggs....until reading the last few post. Had a big whoops moment.

 

[luvmychix]

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I do not have a turner in the incubator I am using now - The smail one before this i did have the turner... but whith this big one i have i just lay all my eggs in the try - and just run my hands across them 3 times a day to roll them.... had great luck!

 

[luvmychix]

im gonna go look and see if i do have pix of that..... brb

 

[luvmychix]

Not the best pix but will they work?.......

2 hatches ago...

newly hatched

fluffed up and dried off

I did find this one of one of my adults...

newly hatched black australorp

 

[PassthePeace1]

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I do not have a turner in the incubator I am using now - The smail one before this i did have the turner... but whith this big one i have i just lay all my eggs in the try - and just run my hands across them 3 times a day to roll them.... had great luck!

I thought about doing it that way too, that's the way I used to do with my LG (yak), and never really had any trouble. But I thought now that I have a proper incubator, with an automatic turner......I would use cartons. Oh well, if I can't figure out something.....I will just turn the turner off, and do it by hand.


Gosh, those pics are cute.....love the first one with all the chicks. Thanks for posting.

 

[Epona142]

Oh my, too sweet looking.

I can hardly wait!

And the australorps . . . are those a laying breed? *Wanders off to look them up in her chicken book.*

 

[luvmychix]

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YEP! check this out... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australorp

"It was the egg laying performance of Australorps which attracted world attention when in 1922-23 a team of six hens set a world record of 1857 eggs at an average of 309.5 eggs per hen for a 365 consecutive day trial. It must be remembered that these figures were achieved without the lighting regimes of the modern intensive shed. Such performances had importation orders flooding in from England, United States of America, South Africa, Canada and Mexico. Well looked after Australorps lay approximately 250 light-brown eggs per year. A new record was set when a hen laid 364 eggs in 365 days."