My first Valley Egg! They Hatched!!! 5/18

[chickenwhisperer]

Got it!
My very first valley quail egg.
They look like a cross between a turkey egg and a coturnix egg.
Quail-sized but with the speckling similar to a wild turkey egg.

Hopefully this is a good start of whats to come!
Ill try to see if I can squeeze one last picture out of my camera.

 

[chickenwhisperer]

 

[kingmt]

Congrats

 

[SamG347]

 

[holachicka]

Yay!!

Hey, how did your eggs from Andrew turn out?

 

[chickenwhisperer]

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The coturnix from Andrew are done, I got 32 to hatch(out of 56), but when I cleaned out the rest, I cracked them open and almost all of them had fully developed chicks that looked like they died right before pipping.
They hatched on the correct day, May 1.

There were >10 that were clear and prolly infertile.

I attribute the lower hatch rate to a few things . . .
1- my 1st time hatching quail
2- a huge temp spike in the beginning
3- a day b4 lockdown I "remodeled my incubator to include a hatching area

I am getting a bunch more prolly tomoro or thursday, and will hopefully be more successful.

The chicks that hatched are doing great, very strong and eating and drinking from feeders/rodent bottles.
I got 3 white chicks.

I still stand by my opinion that Andrews eggs are good!

 

[chickenwhisperer]

And for anybody that cares, my Valley eggs are due to hatch this next Monday.
I have a total of 12 set and all are showing good strong developement.

 

[crash0330]

I care man hopefully those make it out ok! Good luck! I have 9 gamble eggs in lockdown right now hopefully they make it out!

 

[chickenwhisperer]

Lol, thanks and good luck too you as well!

Btw, I am now officially a lisenced Ca Gamebird Breeder!
I got my paperwork back from the FnG last week, I got the class2 so I have the option of producing large numbers.
I can legally raise/breed/buy/sell any Ca native gamebird.

Unfortunately, I tried to put my Valleys up on raised screen and I think I spooked them, I havent gotten an egg since I did that.
Today, they went back into new ground cages, I tried a pair, a group of 1 male/3 females, and a colony of 2.8(m.f).

I hope I didnt put my quail off laying with all my fussing.
The guy I got them from kept them in HUGE pens, so big as to be barely considered captivity I would say.
I put them in much much smaller cages, then tried the raised wire, now a 3rd move into the new ground cages.

Either way, Im going to raise a generation of hatched valleys, even if I gotta go buy eggs from the guy.
I figure if I can get a hatch, by starting them out in cages and on wire, thats all they would know and as such, be more accustomed to real captivity/cages.

Valley quail eggs are so much prettier than, say, a coturnix egg.

 

[holachicka]

I care! Didn't mean to be rude!