hatching quail..I've got pips..and quail!!..and WTHECK is that?

[texaschickmama]

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sure you can but do what you feel is right for you but that's exactly what I do for coturnix

as for bobwhites they incubate 23 days and if that was me i'd stop turning them on day 20 (but AGAIN that's JUST ME) LOL .

Sorry, day 20 on the Bob Whites, gotcha!!

 

[texaschickmama]

Yeah, we have 2 quail out now and a lot of pips!! This is day 18, guess I have slow goers!!

One question, do their feet straighten up after being out of the egg for a while? I can imagine they were crammed in that little egg!!

 

[magikchick]

Way to go!

 

[texaschickmama]

Okay, these are coturnix quail. What the heck is the little yellow one?

 

[Epona142]

An A & M Coturnix? That's my guess!

 

[monarc23]

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An A & M

will look like this as an adult:

^some youngsters in with different colors

and some roughed up hens

 

[texaschickmama]

Well, that's cool, but all I have are the regular coturnix. Could an A&M come from 2 regular coturnix parents? BTW, my daughter is going to A&M!!

 

[monarc23]

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that is so cool (about your daughter)! I would have LOVED to have gone there!!!!


Also, yes it's possible!

It's a recessive gene. Just means mama and roo both carry the A & M gene and it met up perfectly and the egg developed and wala!!! YOu may only get ONE every few hatching batches since it's recessive and depends on where the gene lands

ETA: if you keep this A & M and keep any other A & Ms that hatch and breed them together they will produce only A & Ms

You can also keep this bird in your brown flock and you will get MOSTLY browns from this bird.

However if the A & M is bred to a brown taht carries A & M you will get a few more A & MS

 

[rittert3]

The only coturnix eperience i have was 18 eggs we bought at my first auction and were all duds but have hatched some bobs and ordered day olds once be very careful if you have very many when i order they had a min of 100 so i divied them into 2 2'x3' boxes and some how managed to kill all in 3 days they went from piling in the middle to the corners with only 2-3inches ajustment on my lamp. the biggest loss i've ever had $150 order with shipping

 

[sweetshoplady]

What cute babies! Monarc, I love those speckled ones of yours and the tibetans. That's a good looking box of babies.