Its not poop, is it?

chickenwhisperer

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What makes the spots on quail eggs?
It is thick and chunky and I can scrape it off . . .
Reminds me of runny cocci poop . . .

BTW, I just got my 5 dozen coturnix eggs and they about to go into the incubator!
I broke 4 of the eggs whilst inspecting, so Imma go fry em up right now, never had quail eggs before!
 
http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/58/4/200

pretty
interesting read HTH
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don,t look like poop
 
Imma go read that link right now!

Heres my setting . . .
56 little beauties, hope some hatch.
They are in the still air hovabator till this saturday when my last chickens should hatch and be out of my diy circulating-air bator.
coturnix.jpg


Ha, checkout that date, Im THAT good . . . I get pics before it even happens
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K, so it says the colors are created using porphyrin and biliverden.

por·phy·rin
   /ˈpɔrfərɪn/ Show Spelled[pawr-fuh-rin] Show IPA
–nounBiochemistry.
a dark red, photosensitive pigment consisting of four pyrrole rings linked by single carbon atoms: a component of chlorophyll, heme, and vitamin B12.

biliverdin /bil·i·ver·din/ (-ver´din) a green bile pigment formed by catabolism of hemoglobin and converted to bilirubin in the liver; it may also arise from oxidation of bilirubin.


I read thru the first page in the link, it gave me what I needed.
It sounds like, basically, its converted blood . . . ?

That is very consistent with it looking like runny, bloody cocci poop and being able to be scraped off like dried blood.
That is kinda gross, and Im gonna go wash my hands . . . again

Again, thankyou for that link, very helpful!
 

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