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Male, version 2.21; 19 days 166 grams
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My first post--but I've been reading a lot and studying the threads here. I'm the new steward in the east that Millebantam spoke of, and I just received six dozen eggs on Wednesday from him. They ALL arrived safe and sound, not one even cracked--an amazing job!!! They were set in the incubator on Thursday (yesterday), and we're eagerly awaiting the end of the month, when they should hatch.
I'm working with a school group, and they are being hatched in a Brinsea incubator. Unfortunately two of the eggs were broken when the kids (high school animal science group) were setting them, but we're lucky that Mille sent a whole extra dozen more than we'd asked for, so we're still good.
Once they hatch, we'll be using a spreadsheet I'll make up so the students can weigh them every week to monitor growth. I'm planning to get some leg bands that I hope we'll be able to use after a week or so, so that we can be more sure of individual weight gain. I think that if we can get 6 or 7 colors, we can band one leg and then two legs with one color, then two legs of different colors in differing combos so that we'll be able to get every bird banded and identified. My question here is, where can I get bands small enough for quail chicks?
After they reach 4 or 5 weeks of age, they'll come here to the farm for the finishing of this part of the project, continued weighing, culling extra males and those that don't reach the weight we want, and choosing breeders to continue the next phase of the project with.
Just wanted to say thank you for allowing me to join the project team!
My first post--but I've been reading a lot and studying the threads here. I'm the new steward in the east that Millebantam spoke of, and I just received six dozen eggs on Wednesday from him. They ALL arrived safe and sound, not one even cracked--an amazing job!!! They were set in the incubator on Thursday (yesterday), and we're eagerly awaiting the end of the month, when they should hatch.
I'm working with a school group, and they are being hatched in a Brinsea incubator. Unfortunately two of the eggs were broken when the kids (high school animal science group) were setting them, but we're lucky that Mille sent a whole extra dozen more than we'd asked for, so we're still good.
Once they hatch, we'll be using a spreadsheet I'll make up so the students can weigh them every week to monitor growth. I'm planning to get some leg bands that I hope we'll be able to use after a week or so, so that we can be more sure of individual weight gain. I think that if we can get 6 or 7 colors, we can band one leg and then two legs with one color, then two legs of different colors in differing combos so that we'll be able to get every bird banded and identified. My question here is, where can I get bands small enough for quail chicks?
After they reach 4 or 5 weeks of age, they'll come here to the farm for the finishing of this part of the project, continued weighing, culling extra males and those that don't reach the weight we want, and choosing breeders to continue the next phase of the project with.
Just wanted to say thank you for allowing me to join the project team!