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[Stellar]

There will be some lethals even if you have the Jumbo Browns in there. Jumbo Brown is also a dominant color.

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Ok, I get that. But for some unknown reason I was thinking the Browns (I better say Jumbo Browns or quaillady is going to get after me). I was thinking the J Browns would be carrying the gold as a recessive and it would pop up occasionally.
My chicks this time around have even more gold in them than their parents.

Ok here is the count so far.

So far the Grand Total including Vanilla is:
1 little, 2 little, 3 little quailies,
4 little, 5 little, 6 little quailies,

These are the shipped eggs. I got curious and opened one of those eggs that had not hatched. Dud no development. I opened each one, one by one. Not one of the 9 eggs left had started to develope. I do think they got baked coming through the mail. When the eggs came in temps were high with Heat Index over 100. So next time I know not to get eggs when it is so hot.

My eggs, I have 26 hatched, 1 dud for sure. Eight more in the bator, that probably are duds. Well maybe 2 will do something, find out tomorrow. In the morning, I'll snap a few pics when DH gets up and can help me. Cause I can't hold the little wiggle worms and take a picture too. That little Range is soooo cute.

 

[Stellar]

The Jumbo Brown is Autosomal Incomplete dominant whereas the Manchurian Golden is Autosomal dominant therefore Buttercup can have more gold on the the Browns and still 25% lethal genes.

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Well, I just had another hatch. These guys are not pipping where I can see. All of a sudden I see wiggle wiggle and zip zip and out they come. All through the hatch. Anyway.

This one as above, but inside top of egg is a bit bloody, chick is fine egg sack obsorbed, but I am thinking it wanted out a little soon. Well, I may have another later. There were 2 that had some heft to them, other 6 seemed light weight when I cleared out egg shells and moved out extra racks.

Yes I know, I just could not keep my hands out of that bator. But their still hatching. It might be another gold. Some of the Jumbo Browns are so light that its hard to tell untill they start drying.

edited to add: 25% across the board then, that's not as good as I was thinking. I was thinking 25% on gold and 12.5% on J Brown matings. I'll decide soon, maybe, on the light faced M. Gold if I want to keep him as a breeder to Gold, he's really a handsome boy, there's actually 2 of them.
So by separating the J Browns from the M. Golds I should be able to dilute the M. Gold - pull it out of the gene pool so to speak. Say after 8-9 generations the gold should not pop up very often?

 

[shelleyd2008]

I always wait 3 days after the last one hatches before tossing the rest, sometimes they don't 'pop' like they're supposed to

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Shelleyd you must have the patience of a saint. Trust me that is not me.

I opened up the shipped eggs tonight, cause I couldn't wait to see. Of coarse if I had found one possibility I would have stopped, but 3 days. And this is only day 18 - still on schedule. And I am pretty sure I only have 1 more possible. So we'll see.

3 days past last hatched? I'd be lucky if I made it one day past hatch.

Yup, its another M. Gold and its a male, just what I needed 9 male M. Golds with what I already have.

And that is not counting the other 3 that are not big enough to tell yet. But this one is a definate male. Stands tall and tells it all.

 

[shelleyd2008]

No, usually I just forget about them until the next set is due to hatch, though I rarely have any that don't hatch with the group. Most times it's like a few hatch on the first day, the majority hatches on the second day, and a few on the third. Then nothing. But I still usually forget the eggs in the incubator until the next set is due to move over

 

[Stellar]

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Ok, I still have 7 eggs in bator that I am sure 6 are duds one might do something but probably no. Interesting though is they are sets. Now I have my Golds separated so I know what their eggs look like 3 of these eggs and the 1 that was for sure a dud are M. Gold Eggs. The other 3 are Brown eggs from 2 different hens.

Last of the pictures cause my batteries need charging. I tried to show you how I know the gold is so heavy in my Jumbo Browns. But I don't take the best pictures in the world. To say the very least.

A picture of a group of babies.

My Range baby-Groucho?

Groucho behind Vanilla in front of thermometer (she is darker than pic shows and not so bright a red

These are browns with the big gold eye brows. Hard to tell at hatch what color they are till they are about half dry. They also look mostly like females (big heads) I am thinking. Could be wrong about that. But I have noticed at hatch the females heads are bigger, in the Jumbo Browns anyway.

Now this is my very special quail with a tail. What do ya think? Cute ha, just had to have 1.

Hatch is over. 8 total did not hatch - all were fertile. 3 would have been Jumbo Browns, 5 started to develope and stopped soon thereafter. So 6 chicks from the shipped eggs and 27 chicks from my eggs.

 

[Stellar]

CUTE! I love quail babies. They are stinky and cute...Stinkin cute! I love the Range Baby...It's going to be the lighter range (also known as Rosetta). To breed a Rosetta, you can breed together a Dark British Range (Tibetan) and an English white together for several generations.