Coturnix in lockdown, when should I become concerned?

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I ordered from strombers and they just sent me a email 2 days ago saying their hens laid eggs and they were sending them and would be here in 2 or 3 days. Should see them bby tomorrow if they hatch I'll let you know and if your eBay does not work you can try them. Best of luck

 

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I ordered from strombers and they just sent me a email 2 days ago saying their hens laid eggs and they were sending them and would be here in 2 or 3 days. Should see them bby tomorrow

if they hatch I'll let you know and if your eBay does not work you can try them. Best of luck

Sounds good! thanks

Hope you have better luck than me. 4 were cracked and I took out a few more that obviously never developed. I have 6 in the bator now. I'm trying to distract myself so I don't check on them every 2 minutes

 

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Don't worry I checked on chickens every two minutes when I was hatching and still do. Strombers from what I hears send a few extra eggs when you order to compensate for the possibility of cracked eggs from shipping. Well I will see by tomorrow

 

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Don't worry I checked on chickens every two minutes when I was hatching and still do. Strombers from what I hears send a few extra eggs when you order to compensate for the possibility of cracked eggs from shipping. Well I will see by tomorrow

I'm curious to see. I did get extra eggs with my order which was really exciting. And a good thing considering only 6 are in lockdown LOL

 

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That must be a bummer how many did you order? After I get a Handel on coturnix quail I plan to order a few different mutations. I saw a few pictures of a silver coturnix and it was beautiful and I want one I found it interesting how. Many different types there are

 

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I'm the same. That's how I ended up ordering the golden Italian. Very pretty. I ordered 10 eggs and got 15. It is a bummer but I knew the risk I was taking with shipped eggs so I'm not overly disappointed. If I wasn't warned ahead of time though it would be a totally different story lol I don't think I've seen the silver ones but there are a lot of different colors. I saw an auction for rare color mutations that I thought was interesting but I haven't finished my first hatch of quail yet so I didn't want to get ahead of myself

 

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For me the only option was to order eggs. i searched all over town for some fertile eggs and there were only a few people with quail and very few of them breed them and they only did it seasonal.

i got the picture from this thread.

I find them beautiful

 

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Wow. I agree. Gorgeous! Might have to go in search of a few of those too eventually. When I was looking for eggs I only found one person selling them anywhere local but could never get a response to my emails. So I ordered online. Now that I've got eggs I find tons of ads from people selling them near me. Just my luck lol

 

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Lol. i read online that the silvers are not avaible in the US yet (read that a year ago) i hope they are now

My luck is just plain bad with no quails for sale anywhere near me

 

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Lol. i read online that the silvers are not avaible in the US yet (read that a year ago) i hope they are now

My luck is just plain bad with no quails for sale anywhere near me

Thank goodness for the internet right? Hmmmm I may message some of the sellers I've seen on craigslist and see what colors their coturnix are. And cross my fingers for a response this time. Well I know birds can be imported but I imagine its expensive and there's probably a lot of red tape to get through. Someone is probably going to make a good profit on it if they ever (and hopefully they have already) bring them over. I know I'd pay a bit extra for the neat coloring