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[meganhundley]

ment to say hey AmyL good to c u again! And im glad to read all of your posts!

hiya everyone!
I got the resta ur posts after i sent mine lol sorry to ask the questions everyone else already had!

That's ok. Typing is distracting me from thinking about all these eggs quitting on me. They all looked so good and healthy Friday when I candled them.

 

[Cockatrice6420]

I did a little catch up, probably not enough. But, I'm glad to see Amy Lynn back

, great catch on the incubator Ruby, and I'm pleased to see the info on the air sack. I'm on day 7 of my try again experiment run, I'll candle in a bit, we'll the one light colored egg anyhow.

 

[Cockatrice6420]

Oh, Megan, I'm sorry.

 

[kwhites634]

hiya Kwhites!

u know i have quail too, but i havent even had one lay yet. Texas A & M, and theyre at about 14 wks now

its been difficult for me to keep them in a location where theyre not stressed. I dislike the flighty carateristics, prefering calmer birds, and i dont like keeping anything on wire, so that in itself aggravates me about the species... If i am to continue with quail, its going to be in a new caging system, mostly blocked on the sides so theyll stop freaking out so much...

! So sorry its a bad one for you

i had a pot belly and he did pretty well against the neighbors dog so i assume the poor guys alrite?

I had northern bobwhites because they were good fliers; that helps when you're training young dogs that aren't steady to wing yet. I usually had 6-12 hens & 1-2 cocks together, and had eggs coming out my ears! No idea how old the birds were, though; I got them as grownups. I kept them either in portable recall pens I could carry to the field, or Johnny houses (like outhouses), or small runs, maybe 2' wide x 4' long x 18" high with a shelter on one end. They all had wire bottoms, but they sat on the ground, so the wire was not a problem.

 

[chicapee]

Thanks, hon... no beardless ones this batch either... kinda makes me wonder if my old roos "stuff" hung around a lot longer than normal... I think in spring my Lavs will be much better...

You ever want more just let me know... you'll always be welcome to whatever I can send to you...

Thank ravyn. I will have another look at them today and try and get pics and see what you think. They are getting big.

 

[meganhundley]

Oh, Megan, I'm sorry.

Thank you, it's ok, atleast I'll get replacements for most of them. I'm still going to try to convince the other woman to send atlest a few pelacements. All the eggs were dirty but some were just rediculously nasty.

 

[chicapee]

I had northern bobwhites because they were good fliers; that helps when you're training young dogs that aren't steady to wing yet. I usually had 6-12 hens & 1-2 cocks together, and had eggs coming out my ears! No idea how old the birds were, though; I got them as grownups. I kept them either in portable recall pens I could carry to the field, or Johnny houses (like outhouses), or small runs, maybe 2' wide x 4' long x 18" high with a shelter on one end. They all had wire bottoms, but they sat on the ground, so the wire was not a problem.

I have never seen wild quail down here. They are quite rare now apparently. I wonder what the rules are to hatch and release into my woods. It would be nice to see them and heat them doing their thing. I believe that the Bob whites were native to this area.

 

[meganhundley]

I don't even know how many have quit yet. Some are in the process of quitting right now. The veins are receding and blood rings are starting to form. Some still look really good. But after I saw 4 or 5 that had quit I just got overwhelmed and forgot to keep track of which 1's were still good and which weren't.

 

[meganhundley]

I have never seen wild quail down here. They are quite rare now apparently. I wonder what the rules are to hatch and release into my woods. It would be nice to see them and heat them doing their thing. I believe that the Bob whites were native to this area.

We used to have them here, I used to hear them all the time in the spring, I haven't paid attention in a while so I don't know if they're still around or not. I've never actually seen them, I just always heard them.

 

[kwhites634]

Thank you, it's ok, atleast I'll get replacements for most of them. I'm still going to try to convince the other woman to send atlest a few pelacements. All the eggs were dirty but some were just rediculously nasty.

Next time that happens, you might try checking somewhere on how to clean them up w/o actually washing them. I've seen it somewhere on here, but don't recall offhand just where it was.