PG 32 to 39 Cindy & Tori's AWESOME! hatch! Plus PICS!!

[Mrs MIA]

I think we have a pip this morning...

13 coturnix in the hatcher, fuzzing out this morning.

2 goldens!

 

[BirdBoy88]

Congrats Tori! i bet they are to cute!

 

[monarc23]

yay Tori!!!! Goldens are my fav (well if it's between brown and golden) hehe!!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

They are very cute.

I took some photos before the power went out due to a transformer blowing. Big wind today.

It went out at 11:30am, and by 11:35am I had the generator warming up and extension cords running to the incubator/brooder room and the TV.

Came back on about 3:15pm. So... I'll have to download some photos now that the computer is back up.

I'm happy to say that they're all PERFECT. No curled toes, not a single fuzz out of place. I'm ecstatic. There are 5 eggs left in the hatcher, no sign of life, but experience has taught me that if one does hatch (late) it will be a "special" chick.
Niki, I was reading what you wrote about the golden genes, and how they're sometimes fatal. My oldest asked me why I only got two goldens, and I was able to answer intelligently, and in a manner that he understood.

He's 12, but he understands the Punnet squares and a little bit about the color genetics, so I was able to draw it out for him. It was

!

I want more Goldens, so hopefully I can segregate some of my hens and put a jumbo brown over them to get more.

 

[monarc23]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

They are very cute.

I took some photos before the power went out due to a transformer blowing. Big wind today.

It went out at 11:30am, and by 11:35am I had the generator warming up and extension cords running to the incubator/brooder room and the TV.

Came back on about 3:15pm. So... I'll have to download some photos now that the computer is back up.

I'm happy to say that they're all PERFECT. No curled toes, not a single fuzz out of place. I'm ecstatic. There are 5 eggs left in the hatcher, no sign of life, but experience has taught me that if one does hatch (late) it will be a "special" chick.
Niki, I was reading what you wrote about the golden genes, and how they're sometimes fatal. My oldest asked me why I only got two goldens, and I was able to answer intelligently, and in a manner that he understood.

He's 12, but he understands the Punnet squares and a little bit about the color genetics, so I was able to draw it out for him. It was

!

I want more Goldens, so hopefully I can segregate some of my hens and put a jumbo brown over them to get more.

That's really cool Tori

I'm going to work with goldens two ways to see what comes of it. Im going to have a flock of PURE goldens over a golden male. Then a flock of browns, over a Brown male and a Golden male. If i have enough brown hens though fo rbtoh males I'll separate the golden male with a flock of his own brown hens to see if the golden to golden, golden to brown has any differences in fertility/hatchability.

I can't wait to see. I don't mind trying.


icannot wait to see the babies!!!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

Here you go...

There's 14, but they all pretty much look the same...

 

[Mrs MIA]

Please let me know how that goes? I was thinking about doing that very test, to see if it affected the hatch or not. I'm really curious to prove/disprove if the genes are fatal or not.

 

[BirdBoy88]

What cuteness babies!!

i will never get tired of hatching eggs.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

Here you go...
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k270/vyancey/Quail/coturnix/Goldencoturnix1-16-200912-21-18PM.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k...urnix/Browncoturnixbaby1-16-200912-21-47P.jpg

There's 14, but they all pretty much look the same...

Hey, those look like quail???

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Hey, those look like quail???

Ay-yup!

Jumbos, too!

One little pip in the bugton eggs at 6am... by 6pm there were 13 pips. 8:30pm the first bugton hatched... it is now 10:15pm, and there are 22 bugtons in the hatcher, with about 5 more eggs zipping.

I thought we were going to get lucky with maybe 6 chicks...

What am I going to do with them all??? I took more photos, but that will have to wait.