I’m back, new eggs on the way!!!

[mixedUPturk]

Great! without the same protein levels we couldnt compare notes but i hope to get weights. Ive always been a bit of a nerd and i like to keep good records so that i know the specifics of what ive done. Cant trust my memory.

Thats why i messed w the A&M too theyre meat birds bred to have that size but i wasnt impressed when compared with the pharaohs.

Im very interested in the diff colors and i thought about ordering them from him but i have to get reestablished before i can play around very much.

Thats really neat about the guy you started out last year! I hope to get the certifications one day too. With real lines i have something worth marketing now.

I ask about your market out of curiosity because we have a huge pickled egg market here and probly half of my eggs will go toward that.

I hope to get my littles eatn the eggs too Cant Wait!

 

[cosmosue]

I confess...I’ve never eaten a pickled egg haha!!!

What do you use to weigh them? A good scale? I don’t have one but I could get one easy enough. I just butcher when I need to and they of at least a certain age, I’m not too particular I guess lol mainly cause all my time goes into art and my art shop.

Maybe someday when I have a bigger area I will have a lot more birds and can do more with them! That’s the plan anyway.

I would also stick to the pharaohs for meat birds even though the Texas were fine - over all the pharaohs seemed to grow bigger faster and produce more reliable size overall. I still like them though I probably won’t be breeding them for “food” probably more just for fun and colors. I do have a few mixed in with one of my breeding sets but I may move them out at some point and keep them all brown in the two pens of breeders. I needed some extra room over the winter.

I need new pens for new birds! Lol!

 

[mixedUPturk]

Also how do you brood them? Ive got so many more than i origionally planned. I planned to keep them in a great big aquarium indoors for 2 wks since its still cold at night. After that i will want to move them out with light. Now ill need at least 1 more tank maybe 2 and i think ill want them out sooner.

Outside the orig plan was a 6x2 brooder and then eventually an 8x6 A frame coop/run plus several small breeder cages.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I would also stick to the pharaohs for meat birds even though the Texas were fine - over all the pharaohs seemed to grow bigger faster and produce more reliable size overall. I still like them though I probably won’t be breeding them for “food” probably more just for fun and colors. I do have a few mixed in with one of my breeding sets but I may move them out at some point and keep them all brown in the two pens of breeders. I needed some extra room over the winter.

I need new pens for new birds! Lol!

Fancy colors invariably have a restricting effect on the growth of coturnix. If you want THE BEST meat birds possible - stick to wild-type jumbo browns/meat maker types. Even A&Ms will have restricted growth in comparison.

I have lots of colors because a bantam/standard sized flock works better for me anyways. Just depends on your priorities!

 

[mixedUPturk]

I confess...I’ve never eaten a pickled egg haha!!!

me neither! But people sure do love the ones i made last year

What do you use to weigh them? A good scale? I don’t have one but I could get one easy enough. I just butcher when I need to and they of at least a certain age, I’m not too particular I guess lol mainly cause all my time goes into art and my art shop.

Yup any ole scale theyre generally pretty easy to calibrate.
Totally understandable and thats why i took a 2 yr hiatus raising my human littles up a bit

Maybe someday when I have a bigger area I will have a lot more birds and can do more with them! That’s the plan anyway.

Thats where im headed too itll still be suburban though, so thats why i only want to have the two chicken breeds with the quail as my main focus.

I would also stick to the pharaohs for meat birds even though the Texas were fine - over all the pharaohs seemed to grow bigger faster and produce more reliable size overall. I still like them though I probably won’t be breeding them for “food” probably more just for fun and colors. I do have a few mixed in with one of my breeding sets but I may move them out at some point and keep them all brown in the two pens of breeders. I needed some extra room over the winter.

I need new pens for new birds! Lol![/OTE]

do we ever stop needing more pens?!

 

[mixedUPturk]

Fancy colors invariably have a restricting effect on the growth of coturnix. If you want THE BEST meat birds possible - stick to wild-type jumbo browns/meat maker types. Even A&Ms will have restricted growth in comparison.

I have lots of colors because a bantam/standard sized flock works better for me anyways. Just depends on your priorities!

Hey there! I went and read you basic info in your profile page. I love that you have 10 pens of all different colors, very neat! I saw your pretty new to the site and want to say Welcome! I hope you love the site!

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Hey there! I went and read you basic info in your profile page. I love that you have 10 pens of all different colors, very neat! I saw your pretty new to the site and want to say Welcome! I hope you love the site!

Thank you! I am an obsessive collector and genetics nerd so I am doing some work to map some genes that aren't very well understood right now.

I do love the site, as you can see from the unreasonable number of posts in that short time Full of awesome people doing all sorts of different amazing things.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Thank you! I am an obsessive collector and genetics nerd so I am doing some work to map some genes that aren't very well understood right now.

I do love the site, as you can see from the unreasonable number of posts in that short time Full of awesome people doing all sorts of different amazing things.

Very welcome i look forward to reading your genetics info, im a nerd too but that stuff goes right over my head. Seriously i think i retain about 10% of what i research in genetics

 

[mixedUPturk]

Theres definitely life in there! I estimate about 80/100! i didnt tryn Pull the clears cuz its so hard to tell and i dont wanna make any mistakes. Theyll still be clear next wk.

 

[cosmosue]

Fancy colors invariably have a restricting effect on the growth of coturnix. If you want THE BEST meat birds possible - stick to wild-type jumbo browns/meat maker types. Even A&Ms will have restricted growth in comparison.

I have lots of colors because a bantam/standard sized flock works better for me anyways. Just depends on your priorities!

My priorities - stick to the wild type browns for “food” and keep them all together or at least separated out from the colored quail. I am doing that already so there is no “cross breeding” on the quail I don’t want to cross.

Then in separate pens I have some that I was crossing like ok I did a normal hatch of my jumbo browns and I got a few what I call “weirdos” that their color is not quite what the rest are they are patterned differently or a bit more red you know? Some had dark faces missing markings etc. so I took a few weirdos and put those with my more favorite Texas colored quail - ones with double spots or two big spots (almost my entire Texas hatch went to the freezer and I kept the ones I thought were “nicer looking” bless them, poor quail being judged on their feather hahahaha)

Then I mixed the weirdos with the nicer Texas for “fun” (so far I only did this once) and got some browns with white flight feathers.

So yeah I keep my good breeding brown stock separated out from my “fun stock” that I am playing with and naming and mixing. I figured this would be good because that keeps my larger browns clean and leaves me room to play with colors and genes as time allows, I know there must be some recessive genes in some of these brown so I pulled the weirdos to play with and see if anything comes of it.

But now I’ve got this mix batch I’m waiting on and those will not be mixing with my browns these are more for fun and color, not that they won’t get eaten because I guarantee some of them will... lol but again I’ll judge them on colors and sizes and go from there and see what and who I want to breed with what