Coturnix in lockdown, when should I become concerned?

[bkquail]

yeah had 8 but 3 died from and animal guessing mountain lion. never milked them them thought.
He could do jumping jacks and have is whole body jiggle while they are outside doing their gardening and be making all kinds of noises and breath really lound and grunt then walk up to them with butter and start rubbing it all over his body. Sorry i dont think like normal people

Oh and your golden quail. are thoes the only quail you have and were you planning to breed them or just keep them as pets? i read that goldens have a lethal gene and breeding a golden to a golden could result into loosing up 75% of your hatches. most people breed a golden to a wild type and they say they get mostly goldens

 

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yeah had 8 but 3 died from and animal guessing mountain lion. never milked them them thought.
He could do jumping jacks and have is whole body jiggle while they are outside doing their gardening and be making all kinds of noises and breath really lound and grunt then walk up to them with butter and start rubbing it all over his body. Sorry i dont think like normal people

Oh and your golden quail. are thoes the only quail you have and were you planning to breed them or just keep them as pets? i read that goldens have a lethal gene and breeding a golden to a golden could result into loosing up 75% of your hatches. most people breed a golden to a wild type and they say they get mostly goldens

Literally laughed hysterically when I read that! I know just the person to pull that off and make it as gross as is humanly possible

They're my first and only quail so far. I was planning to breed them. I've never read that about the lethal gene. Thank you for the information. I would've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why I have consistently lower hatches. Well it looks like I need more quail! What a terrible prospect

I wouldn't mind if I didn't get mostly goldens out of a hatch. As long as a few maintained the golden gene I'd be happy. I just thought it was really pretty so that's the color I went with.

 

[bkquail]

Make sure to catch it ALL on camera

I read it in This thread. its down in the breeding genetics section. sorry its said to lose 25% of hatch. its right after most of the pictures

 

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Hmmm interesting. Actually the whole thing was interesting. Lots of good info in there. I'd never ran across a list of which colors are dominant, recessive, etc. Very cool

 

[bkquail]

its in the sticky lol

 

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The sticky that I never bothered to read

 

[bkquail]

LOL theres some pretty usefull stuff in it. thats where i leaned most of the stuff i know about quail

 

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I'm a serial sticky note ignorer. I just recently read one of the ones from the chicken forums lol but only because someone linked to it from a thread. I have a habit of reading up on one specific question and then kind of rabbit trailing from there. This is a great site to do that. I'm definitely one of those 'blah blah blah blah SQUIRREL!' people

 

[bkquail]

LOL i know what you mean. When did you candle you quail eggs? I'm getting anxious

 

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LOL I waited until they were about 5 or 6 days in I think. but mine all had the dark spotting. It's the only reason I waited so long. It makes them hard to see anything until they're almost ready for lockdown. It's not impossible like all the places I read saying so. You just have to turn them and look between the spots. Although I only threw away ones I was dead certain hadn't developed at all or had cracks in them. If I wasn't sure, it stayed. I would have left the cracked ones too if I'd known about the nail polish trick at the time.

Changed your mind about candling huh?