Button Quail Chat

[Quailobsessed]

This is true. We have very strict laws on importing and exporting. It's probably to protect all our native animals. So it's a good law, it's just sad we can't share mutations.

 

[Quailobsessed]

Pinga is so cute!

Can’t wait to see Toge!

For anyone who doesn't know, Pinga is the name of my tame golden pearl. Toge is the name of one of my japanese quails I told Quaicken108 I would make a thread about.

 

[Serin]

My hen brooded 8 days this time and abandoned when I put my hand in the cage to add a handful of clean shavings. I thought shed settle back but never did and roosted out of the nest tonight. So disappointing.

I put 4 in the finch nest again. The two I put there from before did not hatch. I cracked them a few days ago and they were infertile.

I cracked the other 4 eggs that wouldn't fit under the finches after twelve hours. Four half developed dead chicks. But that means the ones I did save at least a chance of hatching. Have to get an incubator. They're just so expensive.

 

[Quailobsessed]

I have a Janoel 12 incubator, not a top of the range incubator but it does the job and is a reasonable price.

One of my hens is broody AGAIN. She went broody once and hatched three chicks, all of them she rejected. A couple of days later she went broody again and hatched one chick. That chick was recently removed as she's an adult now and now our hen, a couple of days later, is broody for the third time! Hoping I'll get some better hatch rates this time. Though to make up for it we've gotten some good mutations; golden pearl, cinnamon pearl and white winged pied; all females.

 

[blackoaktammy]

I use Little Giant for my incubator and hatcher. They're about $50 at Tractor Supply.

 

[blackoaktammy]

I have a passion for red breasted, especially Darth Vaders. I had two normal boys, so set a goal to produce Darth Vaders in cinnamon and silver. I produced a cinnamon mid-summer. I've been watching this silver in my brooder. He has a few more weeks before he's in full color, so I'm not going to say it now, but....
Here's a picture of him, a normal, and a cinnamon

 

[Quailobsessed]

I have a passion for red breasted, especially Darth Vaders. I had two normal boys, so set a goal to produce Darth Vaders in cinnamon and silver. I produced a cinnamon mid-summer. I've been watching this silver in my brooder. He has a few more weeks before he's in full color, so I'm not going to say it now, but....
Here's a picture of him, a normal, and a cinnamon
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Cool, I love the Darth Vaders too. I have one, his name is Darth Vader (so original).

 

[blackoaktammy]

Cool, I love the Darth Vaders too. I have one, his name is Darth Vader (so original).

I have a Star Wars obsession, so this mutation just seemed like part of the general madness lol I have dogs named Yoda, Leia, Padme, and Jabba. I usually don't name the buttons, just one whose nasty attitude towards people named him. I swear he came out of the egg pecking any hand that got near him.

 

[Quailobsessed]

I have a Star Wars obsession, so this mutation just seemed like part of the general madness lol I have dogs named Yoda, Leia, Padme, and Jabba. I usually don't name the buttons, just one whose nasty attitude towards people named him. I swear he came out of the egg pecking any hand that got near him.

SAME! Darth Vader's mate's name is Padme (of course), I called my pheasant siblings Luke and Leia. I have named a lot of my quails after star wars!

 

[Quailobsessed]

I also knew I needed to get the Darth Vader mutation when I discovered it.