Quail died unexpectedly

[muans]

Unfortunately this is the fate sometimes happens. My first hatch I had 15 chicks out of 20 eggs. It turned out, that 10 were roos und additional 2 hens were very bully

As my goal were these days to have 5-6 hens, I wanted to get 2 adult hens for the 3 I got left.
And fate again stroke.

The breeder tried to scam me with a roo. I relized it, but this poor thing was so heavily raped by other roos, that I decided in a split second to save him.
Today it turned out, that my Charlie is a gold nugget. Such a great roo, ... crows only little, keeps the flock together, cares for his hens (always let the females eating first, before he eats and he feeds the hens with mealworms, when I offer them) and is, with 2 years, still very fertile. Never had any problem with adding hens into the flock with him as alpha.

Who knows what would have happen, if I had my 5-6 hens from the beginning. I may wouldn't had started breeding myself.

Sometimes fate is difficult to judge in the beginning

I wish you good luck for adding more birds for lonley Speedy ... crossing fingers

check the tip of the eggs before setting them up..the eggs with female chicks will be very firm to touch at the tip and they look more round which means they are not pointy..not the base the tip..i had a succesful 100% female quail hatch here

 

[muans]

so sorry for your lost..get her some 2-3 weeks chick not a laying hen..not all hen get along with each other

 

[Nabiki]

check the tip of the eggs before setting them up..the eggs with female chicks will be very firm to touch at the tip and they look more round which means they are not pointy..not the base the tip..i had a succesful 100% female quail hatch here

I'm sorry, but that is simply not true. There has been a lot of scientific research, and if big hatcheries could consistently hatch all hens, they would. It would be common knowledge.

 

[ChickenFriends234]

Oh, sorry about the death

 

[FloorCandy]

I'm sorry, but that is simply not true. There has been a lot of scientific research, and if big hatcheries could consistently hatch all hens, they would. It would be common knowledge.

I had watched a video of this “technique” and my children wanted to try it. At 3 weeks I can already tell my 2 feather sexables are male.