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[Nyla]

Just finished my new quail layer cage! I will be making more to stack them. Currently it's leveled with 5 day old quails in it. I put two towels on the cage to keep drafts off the chicks. The cage is 3ft long, 2ft wide, and almost 2 ft high. It has a rolling egg collecting spot on front. But for now I keep a 2x2 over it so chicks can't get out.


Seen a baby Opossum outside my window last night. Also my kitten loves to sleep on our dog..


Got my Snowflake and Blue Scale quail eggs in the mail today! Paid for 24+ of each got 28 of each.


Blue Scale Quail Egg--------Snowflake Quail Egg


And these are my new 29 quail chicks. I originally had 31 but 2 died.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Rabbit person here <3 I live in Akron

and our thread!

 

[Nyla]

Do you know where to find quails who lay blue eggs?

@Nyla Coturnix eggs are cheaper, but possibly smaller. Mine laid blue green eggs with dark chocolate colored spots about every day. They're adorable, too, and can be social like chickens. We had three in a big aquarium in our office for awhile, and they loved to make laser gun noises and watch my husband play video games on the tv.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Do you know where to find quails who lay blue eggs?

BYC has a marketplace:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/#buy-sell-trade.67
There are a few quail clubs on Facebook. Just type quail in the search bar on Facebook. I ran across this one
https://www.facebook.com/groups/quailbreedersclub/

 

[ginasuewho]

Hello from Da Region! Just joined after being a looker for almost a year and a half! Glad to be pointed to this thread. I've got a mixed flock of 11 of Barred Rock, Rhode Island Reds, Black Sex Links, and a Rooster & Hen set of bantam Mille Fleurs. Along with them, we now have 7 Peking ducks, 2 hens, 1 drake, and 4 ducklings from one mama going broody!

 

[Dayrel]

Public service announcement: We are in for a real heat spell in Central Indiana through the weekend. Make sure all of your outside animals have enough shade and water available.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/...test-weather-indy-has-seen-4-years/494166001/

 

[nenebynature]

Public service announcement: We are in for a real heat spell in Central Indiana through the weekend. Make sure all of your outside animals have enough shade and water available.

http://www.indystar.com/story/news/...test-weather-indy-has-seen-4-years/494166001/

I'm south but thanks friend! Time to get some watermelon for the girls ha ha

 

[Finnie]

Black Langshan chicks. Wondering if the seller is the same as who was posting them here, and if so, do they lay purple eggs? https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/grd/d/black-langshan-chicks/6200270296.html

This is me. Purple eggs is a myth.
Langshans lay medium to medium dark eggs, sometimes speckled. I often can't tell them apart from my Blue Splash Marans eggs. (NOT talking the dark chocolate of the BCMs. Other colors of Marans lay lighter eggs, more along Welsummer lines.)

Langshans will randomly deposit a whitish bloom on them which alters the color until the bloom wears off, sort of like the white coating on a plum. This will sometimes give them a rosy hue. Then the wishful thinkers will claim they are purple, and even more unscrupulous types will colorize their photos and list them online as purple layers.

From what I have read, in England and Europe, they actually judge egg color at poultry shows, so over there they breed to enhance this bloom. But even they will admit that it is a white coating on a brown egg, and only gives an illusion of a purple plum. Here in the U.S., the serious breeders pay no attention to egg color. I doubt hatcheries do either. My two hens that came from a show breeder sometimes put the bloom on. My hatchery hens never do.

Hello from Da Region! Just joined after being a looker for almost a year and a half! Glad to be pointed to this thread. I've got a mixed flock of 11 of Barred Rock, Rhode Island Reds, Black Sex Links, and a Rooster & Hen set of bantam Mille Fleurs. Along with them, we now have 7 Peking ducks, 2 hens, 1 drake, and 4 ducklings from one mama going broody!

Welcome!

I'm south but thanks friend! Time to get some watermelon for the girls ha ha

I noticed the temps in Evansville are going to be a few degrees hotter than here.

 

[JanetMarie]

I never knew that there are a type of Quails that lay a blueish green colored egg!!! I found a website that sells the 100 eggs for $100 with $15 shipping!! They are called Celadon Eggs! So excited I can't wait to buy them Friday!

Aren't these eggs amazingly pretty?
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Planning to raise quail in the future. Bluish quail eggs would be a neat breed to raise. I'll have to research them.

Those eggs are very pretty!

 

[Leahs Mom]

Good post, @Dayrel

I always be sure that the flock has at least 2 sources of water at all times just in case one of them gets knocked over or if higher birds decide not to let lower birds at the water source.

In the summer I also put out pyrex pans with water so they can stand in them to cool off if they choose to.

(This photo has clay in the bottom of the pan. I don't use that anymore but don't have a newer photo.)