Let's plan a Quail egg hatch... set 'em Sept. 1, hatch 'em Sept 17-19+

[MobyQuail]

hey 2crows, congrats on the egg!!

 

[JJMR794]

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I FIGURED THAT WAS YOU. LETS HOPE THE MAIL DIDNT HARM THEM

 

[JJMR794]

114 Butler Eggs Nicely Settled Into Their Spot In The Cabinet.... Another 6 Wks Or So And This Place Will Be Like A Bob White Bud Light Commercerial... "here We Go! "

 

[JJMR794]

JUST FOR GIGLES AND VARIETY I THREW IN 28 RINGNECK EGGS TOO

 

[Fat Daddy]

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JJ it aint no wonder your kind of a cantankerous A hole at times. All your favorite birds would sooner bite ya, stick ya, or stab ya, than eat... Must be the farm with the most attitude in the county.....

Bill

 

[kahlertm]

I just looked up setting your eggs for hatching by the moon. They say in the almanac that you want to set for a hatch in the waxing of the moon. For Sept. this will be the 1st thru the 12th. I think I might try and set mine a day or two earlier if I want them to hatch in that "waxing" phase of the moon. It states that your chicks will mature faster and develop stronger. I don't know how the rest of you guys feel about this sort of stuff. It is the first time I have ever looked it up. Maybe I will set two batches...one to hatch early in the wax and another to hatch along with the rest of my friends. You guys don't know how you have become my friends this year. You just don't know how much fun and relief you have given me. Well now you do. I think you are the bomb. Any how...

The Amish do this, the old timers did it...so what the heck. Why not give it a try. I did it with my carrots (I correct myself from above...I did want a good crop of carrots for lots of carrot cake this winter so I looked it and anything else I could, then too)...and I got a bumper huge crop. I planted the seeds when the gravitational pull and water in the ground would work for a root crop seed.

Maybe that is why Shelly's always hatch early at 16 days. Heat? Or setting for hatch during the waxing of the moon and having the circadian rhythm working with you? Interesting stuff. Just thought I would share.

Since I am speaking to natures power...I sure hope everybody Easterly in our BYC world and their animal families are hunkered, evacuated and OK. Thinking of you.

Tonya

 

[JJMR794]

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HAD A GRANDFATHER THAT DID EVERYTHING BY THE MOON.... EVEN DIG FENCE POSTS... BEING ANNOYED AT THIS AT LEAST 1 POINT IN TIME IN MY EARLY LIFE AND BEING FULL OF TESTOSTERONE AT THE SAME JUNCTURE I QUESTIONED THIS...ONCE

I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING REPLY " BOY EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD IS INFLUENCED BY THE MOON. ANYTHING FROM PLANTING SEEDS, HATCHING EGGS, BREEDING ANIMALS, PAINTING BARNS, BALING HAY TO THE TIDES IN THE SEAS... NOW IF THAT MOON CAN CHANGE THE TIDE IN THE GREAT OCEANS OF THIS WORLD YOU TELL ME EXACTLY HOW IT IS THAT YOU THINK IT CANT SUCK THE DIRT OUT OF A POST HOLE?!" I JUST SHOOK MY HEAD AND WENT BACK TO DIGGING

 

[TwoCrows]

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Thanks TD.

I had my suspicions that day, (since then I have gotten 2 more) as when I came home from town that day, all the girls were making a loud fuss. When I went up to the chicken yard and headed toward the coop, 2 of the girls ran inside. So I KNEW something was up. Sure enough there was a beautiful brown egg and it was laid RIGHT next to the fake brown egg in the nest box. They must have wanted to show me this treasure the left for me by running into the coop.

This morning the hubby and I made fried eggs for breakfast, and boy were they good! I am a proud momma!

 

[_Randall_]

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HAD A GRANDFATHER THAT DID EVERYTHING BY THE MOON.... EVEN DIG FENCE POSTS... BEING ANNOYED AT THIS AT LEAST 1 POINT IN TIME IN MY EARLY LIFE AND BEING FULL OF TESTOSTERONE AT THE SAME JUNCTURE I QUESTIONED THIS...ONCE

I RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING REPLY " BOY EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD IS INFLUENCED BY THE MOON. ANYTHING FROM PLANTING SEEDS, HATCHING EGGS, BREEDING ANIMALS, PAINTING BARNS, BALING HAY TO THE TIDES IN THE SEAS... NOW IF THAT MOON CAN CHANGE THE TIDE IN THE GREAT OCEANS OF THIS WORLD YOU TELL ME EXACTLY HOW IT IS THAT YOU THINK IT CANT SUCK THE DIRT OUT OF A POST HOLE?!" I JUST SHOOK MY HEAD AND WENT BACK TO DIGGING

...... and Grandpa was a very wise man. I'll tell ya this, if it's the middle of the day, and you can look up and see the moon...if you love to hunt & fish as much as I do, you're missin' some peak activity if'n you can't convince the boss man you don't feel too good....

 

[JJMR794]

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JJ it aint no wonder your kind of a cantankerous A hole at times. All your favorite birds would sooner bite ya, stick ya, or stab ya, than eat... Must be the farm with the most attitude in the county.....

Bill

IT AINT THAT BAD BILL... I GAVE UP ON CHUKARS