Same here. I've seen them locally much cheaper than that, but I was in the process selling nearly all my birds. Still ended up keeping 5.
I wish my hens would go broody. In the 6 years I've had dual purpose breeds I've only ever had one hatchery quality hen go bloody and I sold my lovely buckeye hen that hatched for me last year. I've apparently made a lot of bad choices with them lately.
I'm sure someone will come along and answer this more thoroughly or refer you to another forum post. If you are ever in doubt I adore searching this forum for articles, posts, and pictures.
I'm pretty certain duck eggs need regularly misting but I'd have to search that here. I tried duck eggs twice from local person but I have a strong suspicion they were infertile. I only hatch chicken eggs and rarely need to add water here in southern AL but I also have a separate hatcher/brooder I keep a small bowl of water in for new chicks so humidity I barely need to adjust. For my incubators I have like a squirt bottle, or a "larger water dropper" that I add water through a small hole. Only open to candle, add or remove eggs. What type of duck and quail eggs?
And on a different note. I'm excited to set some chicken eggs as well for this hatch a long! And I've got one chick about to hatch as I type. Its a cream legbar, can't wait. Newness of the breed hasn't wore off yet, haha. But I've hatched a couple of their eggs already including some auto sexing olive egger pullets!
And, you have OE pullets? Ever sell those eggs? lol...This is Cynthia in Utah.
Hmm, would this be the gal that I got the little cochin eggs from..and am just finishing up with the hatch? Here in Utah! They were way late in the mail, thought they were lost..this you?
""Wonderful mother person who plans to do coturnix! What varieties/colors do you plan to do?"
I have a silver wild one and two brown wild ones, we have only done them last year and lost most of the flock to quails disease i believe
"We are in the middle of our first ever quail hatch after we were given chicks in December from a BYC friend. I did lots of research before hand but am always liking to double check all my info.
Any helpful pointers on raising or hatching coturnix?
they are so so so much tinier than we expected so make sure there isnt any places they can get stuck! Theyre like the size of bumblebees when they are born. Waterer had to be super shallow, we ended up using a rabbit waterer to keep them dry. I also highly highly recommend giving each male his own space and girls, they will fight to the bloody death over women. I was surprised how vicious and rapey they were to be honest they make the sweetest sound though <3 good luck![/quote]It looks like a bantam of some breed doesn't it? Cute.
Idk what your flock consists of but we have silkies with our large fowl flock also OEGB and a golden laced sebright hen. Granted most if them were raised with silkies but usually I think flocks can adjust well to silkies.
If you do decide to give them a go they're great birds especially if handled a lot as chicks. I would consider keeping two or three together especially for introducing them to the flock as they are different and could be picked on keep and eye out for that but silkies are great and some strains of them are pretty good layers. We had one silkie that we lost to a predator last year that except for being broody once that spring had layed us an egg a day all through the winter but maybe for a week or two. She was an amazing layer if course the eggs were smaller than the large fowl but they're not terribly little once they get going.
Our silkies also do well in the heat and cold despite most people saying they're delicate. They are also our only birds that winter 2015(-40* in southern Wisconsin) didn't get frost bite. Even our rose combed breeds like our SLW roo got a little frost bite that winter.
Hope this helps.
Yes! Any input is greatly appreciated! Right now I am thinking they will probably have to be "non free range" because of our hawk issues. I have also heard they are very difficult to sex until they're much older. Thoughts on this, since I'm a certified genius at hatching mostly cockerels!!
