The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

I am gonna be hatching coturnix quail, hopefully will get some silver ones this year
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Right now I am focusing on breeding my scarlet and wanna mix in some silver to get cream.

I picked up silvers and regulars, thinking if the silvers are weak (as I've read in places), some outcrossing vigor would help. Good luck on your project!


I'll be setting some cortunix quail for myself and another person here in Mid TN. My daughter has also requested that I hatch her some button quail. Since the other birds that I was wanting to hatch seem to be not available till Cinco de Mayo hatchalong I may be doing a pure quail hatch. If my Silver Penciled Bantam Wyandottes start laying by then I will hatch some of them.

I just loved the little bobwhites last year. Looking forward to more quail. I ordered me some egg scissors for easy opening/eating of the eggs. Should be a fun project. They're easier and quicker to process than chickens and you can make cute little stuffed quail and quail poppers and (someone needs to get off the quail cooking sites).

About to set 4 Rhodebar eggs as a test hatch. Maybe I can find some other egs to throw in. Lol

Woot!
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I'll be setting some cortunix quail for myself and another person here in Mid TN. My daughter has also requested that I hatch her some button quail. Since the other birds that I was wanting to hatch seem to be not available till Cinco de Mayo hatchalong I may be doing a pure quail hatch. If my Silver Penciled Bantam Wyandottes start laying by then I will hatch some of them.

Coolest thing bout Buttons is they can be encouraged to go broody fairly easily, unlike Coturnix.
 
Excuse the cobwebs. I don't clean that shelf because I'm terrified of breaking anything on it. Everything on this self belonged to my late grandmother. Note the shakers at the very top.
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I don't collect them, but I love those 2. As far as I know, everything on that shelf is older than I am and I'll be 26 on Wednesday!

awwww Raz your so sweet

Is there anyway to encourage a hen to go broody?
give her a clutch of eggs or bag of golf balls

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@Sally Sunshine
@campingshaws
@Wickedchicken6
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whut I do, you all huggy like tonight Jack?
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