May Online Hatching Egg Swap-Eggs should be sent

[ki4got]

If their not sexable till they lay an egg or crow they'll go to freezer camp then. I don't want to have to keep something around very long. I'm mainly wanting JB roos to separte my girls out with anyway. All left overs will go to the freezer.

coturnix mature at 6 weeks old... and reach freezer size by 10 weeks.

 

[wolftracks]

Most of my Cors don''t lay early. I don't know why but it's usually around 12 weeks for most. You can however sex them by vent. If you rub the vent and a foam comes out, they are roos. That is if they are fertile. I can usually tell the roos right efter hatching. The stand tall and squeek. Roo.

 

[JHorn91180]

Mine began laying at 5 weeks to 51/2 weeks. I started with 7 day old chicks and lucked out as all were hens but 2. I now have 20 adults I use as breeders and plan to set another group of eggs soon as I only have one red Tux hen. Altho she was in with a group of 4 other hens and one male, they all attacked her and picked her head and face bloody the other day. Now she is by herself again. That pen has 2 1/2 square feet per bird so dont know why they like to pick on her. They did this once before to her about 2 months ago and I had to take her out and let her heel up. U couldnt even tell anything had happened when I reintroduced her and she had been back in for month or longer when it just happened again. Yes she is def female and continued to lay while she was by herself. Anyways they attacked my jumbo brown hen once too and picked her vent bloody but she is fine now. I can understand this with males but does anyone know why hens do this? I have them on game bird starter thats 28% protien (I think.) They get a lil parakeet seed as a treat once in a while and everyday each pen gets half a boiled chicken egg, 1 leaf of romaine lettuce and a handfull of dried mealworms to help supplement thier diet and give them more protien. They also have grit and oyster shell 24/7. They never fight at all until they all the sudden gang one. All pens have way more space and some triple the 1 square foot per bird rule. Also each pen only contains one male.

Maybe I am doing somthing wrong. If anyone has any advice on how to prevent this please let me know. They have thier main diet 24/7 and all my birds r very fat and plump and water is changed daily. If any one says eat them Im not doing it! These r my breeders and pets. I have some additional young groups I am raiseing up for that.

Coturnix quail if ayone is confused.

 

[ki4got]

Mine began laying at 5 weeks to 51/2 weeks. I started with 7 day old chicks and lucked out as all were hens but 2. I now have 20 adults I use as breeders and plan to set another group of eggs soon as I only have one red Tux hen. Altho she was in with a group of 4 other hens and one male, they all attacked her and picked her head and face bloody the other day. Now she is by herself again. That pen has 2 1/2 square feet per bird so dont know why they like to pick on her. They did this once before to her about 2 months ago and I had to take her out and let her heel up. U couldnt even tell anything had happened when I reintroduced her and she had been back in for month or longer when it just happened again. Yes she is def female and continued to lay while she was by herself. Anyways they attacked my jumbo brown hen once too and picked her vent bloody but she is fine now. I can understand this with males but does anyone know why hens do this? I have them on game bird starter thats 28% protien (I think.) They get a lil parakeet seed as a treat once in a while and everyday each pen gets half a boiled chicken egg, 1 leaf of romaine lettuce and a handfull of dried mealworms to help supplement thier diet and give them more protien. They also have grit and oyster shell 24/7. They never fight at all until they all the sudden gang one. All pens have way more space and some triple the 1 square foot per bird rule. Also each pen only contains one male.

Maybe I am doing somthing wrong. If anyone has any advice on how to prevent this please let me know. They have thier main diet 24/7 and all my birds r very fat and plump and water is changed daily. If any one says eat them Im not doing it! These r my breeders and pets. I have some additional young groups I am raiseing up for that.

Coturnix quail if ayone is confused.

i finally figured out mine... every now and then one will bounce off the ceiling and ding their head. THEN it's a free for all until the bloody one is removed (i'd say or dead but haven't lost one that way yet...) then once they're healed they're all fine again until someone spazzes and busts their head on the ceiling again. solid ceilings seem to encourage more bouncing than wire, but otherwise no clue why it happens. tho i was told don't put red leg bands on them or they'll pick it bloody too. so maybe it's like the fighting bulls, they go nuts when they see red. LOL

 

[JHorn91180]

i finally figured out mine... every now and then one will bounce off the ceiling and ding their head. THEN it's a free for all until the bloody one is removed (i'd say or dead but haven't lost one that way yet...) then once they're healed they're all fine again until someone spazzes and busts their head on the ceiling again. solid ceilings seem to encourage more bouncing than wire, but otherwise no clue why it happens. tho i was told don't put red leg bands on them or they'll pick it bloody too. so maybe it's like the fighting bulls, they go nuts when they see red. LOL

Hmmm that sounds plausible except that pen is 5 feet tall and have seen them fly up the sides of the pen but have never seen one reach the top. The top is what I call rat wire(1/2X1/2 inch squares) with a 4 foot strip florescent light on top the wire that's for an aquarium and bulb is only warm to the touch. Maybe one gets a peck or scratch, they see the red blood and go ape on each other. Well thank u and glad to hear I'm not the only one that has this problem from time to time.

 

[Breshcandra]

Look what hatched.... my first serama came from pen 13

 

[gabrielle1976]

Oh very tiny

 

[mustangsaguaro]

Well, everything that I got from the swap hatched. Out of 27 chicken eggs, 7 made it to lockdown and 5 hatched. I got 2 BO, 1 RIR, 1 OE banty, 1 looks to be blue Ameraucana. I also got some surprise eggs from the person that sent the OE which were 4 quail eggs and 2 of the 4 hatched.

I now have in my 2nd incubator 14 silkie eggs due to hatch at the end of this week.

 

[Noncentzter]

I just put 7/10 eggs from Lionkitty71 into lockdown!

 

[RusticDreamer]

Has anyone candled the eggs I sent to them? Remember, they take 28 days...