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dheltzel said:
Yes, just bought some foam shippers the right size. 30 holes in a 7x7 foam block. In my experience, quail eggs ship pretty well compared to larger eggs.
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I learned that. Quail eggs are the only eggs that have arrived hatchable. I had some cracked, but I don’t know when that happened. Considering the foam, I think it was pre-shipping. No chicken eggs have made it to me. They were mostly scrambled. I don’t mean bad air cells, I mean broken yolk and all. I know my P.O. is partially to blame.
Anyway... quail eggs are more forgiving and the foam helps a lot too.
 
Loving the warm weather also! Was working in yard yesterday installing running boards on our truck. Laying on our backs under the edge of the truck to tighten bolts for the running board mounts with a bunch of snoopervisors! Just as info, chickens will steal bright and shiny nuts and bolts!
But we prevailed and I can now climb into the 3/4 ton truck without feeling like Tarzan on a bad day!
 
I have the broody cage in the storage side of the coop. The cage door stays open, and I let them free range since I know they aren’t straying too far. Yesterday I was in the garden, and a stench suddenly hit my nostrils. Without turning around, I knew that the girls were outside. :lau They were a good distance away, but broody poo is strong smelling!
They enjoy their dust baths when no one else is out.
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BullChick said:
I have the broody cage in the storage side of the coop. The cage door stays open, and I let them free range since I know they aren’t straying too far. Yesterday I was in the garden, and a stench suddenly hit my nostrils. Without turning around, I knew that the girls were outside. :lau They were a good distance away, but broody poo is strong smelling!
They enjoy their dust baths when no one else is out.
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My nose must not work! I can never tell broody poo from the others. Of course, Sunny is tiny and her poo is small too. She stay in broody jail for 4 days and finally broke her broodiness. She usually lays for 2 month and broody again. I may try to give her the 3 week old chicks if she is broody again that time.
 
fisherlady said:
@dheltzel
What breed are the blue egg laying quail and will the eggs ship ok across state?
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They are called "Celedon", because that is what someone called the gene in Coturnix quail that makes the eggs blue. Someone started selecting for blue eggs. It is a recessive trait in quail (unlike chickens, where blue is dominant), which should make it easy to fix the trait, but since males rarely lay eggs, you can't tell if he has 0, 1 or 2 copies of the gene without test breeding to blue egg laying females. This line has been tested and lays all blue eggs across many generations. As long as we keep them pure, we will continue to get all blue eggs. It is certainly possible to breed the gene into other lines, like the jumbo's or texas A&M, but takes some work and record keeping.
Quail eggs ship much better than larger eggs. PM me when you are ready to hatch some. I am not setting any more eggs for a while, so have plenty to mail out.
 
I know nothing about Quail except for 20 years ago someone gave me feathers that I used to make Christmas orniments. I assume you can't mix them with chickens?
Dennis--THANK YOU again for my three pretty girls who are laying blue eggs EVERY DAY! They already have names and the lavender color puts any Orpington I have owned to shame!
 
dheltzel said:
They are called "Celedon", because that is what someone called the gene in Coturnix quail that makes the eggs blue. Someone started selecting for blue eggs. It is a recessive trait in quail (unlike chickens, where blue is dominant), which should make it easy to fix the trait, but since males rarely lay eggs, you can't tell if he has 0, 1 or 2 copies of the gene without test breeding to blue egg laying females. This line has been tested and lays all blue eggs across many generations. As long as we keep them pure, we will continue to get all blue eggs. It is certainly possible to breed the gene into other lines, like the jumbo's or texas A&M, but takes some work and record keeping.
Quail eggs ship much better than larger eggs. PM me when you are ready to hatch some. I am not setting any more eggs for a while, so have plenty to mail out.
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Dennis, I sent a message but it was as a 'conversation', not a PM.... if needed I can restart it. I don't know if conversation new messages send notifications.
 
Lelanae said:
I know nothing about Quail except for 20 years ago someone gave me feathers that I used to make Christmas orniments. I assume you can't mix them with chickens?
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I’ve had quail in the chicken pen for a month or so. It’s about space and personality. The chickens don’t care about the quail running around.
 

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