Illinois...

[BReeder!]

My quail are hatching!

I am posting in a hatch along thread here https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/quail-hatch-along.1276785/page-192#post-20863117 if you are interested in updates. They just started at about 5am.

This awesome post also puts us at 1000 pages!

 

[Molpet]

My quail are hatching!

I am posting in a hatch along thread here https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/quail-hatch-along.1276785/page-192#post-20863117 if you are interested in updates. They just started at about 5am.

This awesome post also puts us at 1000 pages!

 

[scootermagoo]

Hey ya'll...
Is anyone in central IL? I'm in a tiny town between Kankakee and Pontiac-heard last week that there was a large Bobcat sighting/tracks in Fairbury. Was wondering if anyone's heard if they've found it?

 

[Molpet]

Hey ya'll...
Is anyone in central IL? I'm in a tiny town between Kankakee and Pontiac-heard last week that there was a large Bobcat sighting/tracks in Fairbury. Was wondering if anyone's heard if they've found it?

I am up near Joliet and used to get feed in Fairbury at a co-op, until they closed the feed division. There is a hunting season on bobcat now in IL, but not all counties. I have seen tracks and across the road at my cousins farm, one was caught on the game cam.


https://www.dnr.illinois.gov/news/P...inois-Bobcat-Hunting-and-Trapping-Season.aspx
The following counties are prohibited from hunting or trapping bobcats: Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Henry, Iroquois, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Marshall, McHenry, McLean, Ogle, Peoria, Piatt, Putnam, Stark, Stephenson, Vermilion, Will, Winnebago, Woodford, and the area north of U.S. Route 36 in Edgar and Douglas counties and north of U.S. Route 36 to the junction with Illinois Route 121 and north or east of Illinois Route 121 in Macon County.

 

[scootermagoo]

I am up near Joliet and used to get feed in Fairbury at a co-op, until they closed the feed division. There is a hunting season on bobcat now in IL, but not all counties. I have seen tracks and across the road at my cousins farm, one was caught on the game cam.


https://www.dnr.illinois.gov/news/P...inois-Bobcat-Hunting-and-Trapping-Season.aspx
The following counties are prohibited from hunting or trapping bobcats: Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Henry, Iroquois, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Knox, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, Livingston, Logan, Marshall, McHenry, McLean, Ogle, Peoria, Piatt, Putnam, Stark, Stephenson, Vermilion, Will, Winnebago, Woodford, and the area north of U.S. Route 36 in Edgar and Douglas counties and north of U.S. Route 36 to the junction with Illinois Route 121 and north or east of Illinois Route 121 in Macon County.

Shows how much I've payed attention I lived in Naperville, then Elwood, now here in Ford/Livingston county and have never heard of Bobcat being a problem before.
Good info, thank you much!

 

[Faraday40]

My quail are hatching!

I am posting in a hatch along thread here https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/quail-hatch-along.1276785/page-192#post-20863117 if you are interested in updates. They just started at about 5am.

This awesome post also puts us at 1000 pages!

So how many quail did you get today?

 

[BReeder!]

So how many quail did you get today?

52 so far!
There's still 11 in the incubator.
5 passed away just after hatching.

 

[Faraday40]

Quail are more delicate in that 1st week. In my 1st hatch I remember we had 2 "failure to thrive" quail chicks. They seemed fine for a couple days but didn't grow much. Once the siblings became bigger they would push the smaller two away. At least 2xs per day I gave them some alone time with feed soaked with an electrolyte water mix. DD took it as a challenge to nurse them along. One still died around 7 days old & the other turned out to be male. He stayed smaller than the rest until around 7 weeks old.

Here are the 2 runts & a normal quail around 5 days old

at 2 weeks

3 weeks

4 weeks

6 weeks

BTW- The kids held the 1st batch of quail all the time. They were somewhat tamed from all the handling but not the same kind of outgoing friendliness like chickens.

DD's fav was this little guy. He was the only "tame" quail I ever saw. He actually would run into DD's hand and even followed her.

Because he was tame, she would let him play in the grass by her feet & he'd stay by her. This little quail was an exception.

 

[BReeder!]

@Faraday40 @Molpet and anybody here who has hatched turkey eggs. I will be cleaning and setting the incubator tomorrow for whatever eggs Faraday40 is kind enough to provide me with. I'm not finding a whole lot on BYC about hatching turkeys though... Ideal temp and humidity? Sounds like temp for forced air incubation is 99.5 F. I want a number for humidity though. The one helpful article I read on BYC mentioned dry incubation if the humidity in the house is fine, but no details on what the house humidity was. 40%? 30%? It looks like they need to grow quite a large air cell from the diagrams I've seen, so I'm assuming lower humidity, like 30%. Not really finding much that assures me of this though.

 

[Molpet]

@Faraday40 @Molpet and anybody here who has hatched turkey eggs. I will be cleaning and setting the incubator tomorrow for whatever eggs Faraday40 is kind enough to provide me with. I'm not finding a whole lot on BYC about hatching turkeys though... Ideal temp and humidity? Sounds like temp for forced air incubation is 99.5 F. I want a number for humidity though. The one helpful article I read on BYC mentioned dry incubation if the humidity in the house is fine, but no details on what the house humidity was. 40%? 30%? It looks like they need to grow quite a large air cell from the diagrams I've seen, so I'm assuming lower humidity, like 30%. Not really finding much that assures me of this though.

Mine was around 30 then 80
Reading material
https://www.porterturkeys.com/egghatchingtips.htm