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Thank you Sour and Blooie!! I hope he likes it. I doubt he will start out driving the big equipment like he wants...he knows he has to prove himself but the foots in the door
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Thank you Sour and Blooie!! I hope he likes it. I doubt he will start out driving the big equipment like he wants...he knows he has to prove himself but the foots in the door
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Good on him for passing! I hope he enjoys his new job, despite having to work his way up to the big beasts.
 
Good morning DMC & all
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DMC, congrats to your son...sounds like he's on his way!

Busy day today. We have 5 more interviews to do and our 1st meeting with the golf course advisory board. Seems like every day we're picking up steam toward opening. So very much hoping we have a good season
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Good Morning!
I know your son will do well! Even I got my CDL with zero experience and 2 instructors in a class of 12. I do wish in hindsight that I'd have gone into the heavy equipment rather than OTR. I'd likely be retired at this point. Now my body is too unhappy to handle the life. Turns out I'm meant to be a desk jockey and homebody.
 
Oh yes, my plan for an Easter Hatch went down the drain yesterday. I ordered quail eggs on Saturday with an expected arrival of Mar 23-27. They arrived YESTERDAY! Guess I should have mentioned my intent to the seller. Very nice person that I'm sure would have been more than helpful in getting me the next batch. Rather than risk viability by holding off another week, I just put them in the bator. I guess that just means I'll be eating fresh eggs a week earlier this year.
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Oh yes, my plan for an Easter Hatch went down the drain yesterday. I ordered quail eggs on Saturday with an expected arrival of Mar 23-27. They arrived YESTERDAY! Guess I should have mentioned my intent to the seller. Very nice person that I'm sure would have been more than helpful in getting me the next batch. Rather than risk viability by holding off another week, I just put them in the bator. I guess that just means I'll be eating fresh eggs a week earlier this year.
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We just hatched some quail. They are the cutest things ever. I'm very pleased to have hatched a few rosetta babies. One looks like a rosetta tuxedo. Ours hatched a little earlier than expected. Good luck for your hatch.
 
I was a bit busy yesterday trying to keep track of my quail babies hatching. I was trying to keep the three lots of eggs from our three groups separate, plus trying to mark them in some way so I know who came from who. But I'm not sure I have got it all straight. I'll have to sort through them today with my DD's help. I've got two that look like their legs are splayed - everyone else is absolutely fine, so they may need their legs taped.

This is Dolly who was the first to hatch, so spent quite awhile cheeping sadly, calling for friends. So he/she was carried around in my pocket with a heat pack. Pretty sure she's (here's hoping) a rosetta, maybe a rosetta tuxedo.

And this is Treasure who is definitely a tuxedo, and I'm pretty sure rosetta again. We got one rosetta chick in a batch of eggs we bought (which turned out to be 9 roosters out of 11 chicks!) but these rosettas are are coming from my gold based white boy and a dark tibetan girl.


I don't believe the online genetic calculator I found online for Japanese quail as I have a wild coloured chick from one group that, no matter how I put it into the calculator, never comes up as even a tiny percentage of the results. Plus it promised me italian tuxedos. None of my babies look like they are going to be that. I've also only got one white chick so far (still a few more eggs to hatch) and that's from my third generation gold italians and whites. According to the calculator I should have a reasonable proportion of whites. They are all cute though and we have quite a few that look like tibetan tuxedos.

And here are my little Javas. Their feathers are just starting to fan out. I got up at 3.30am as I could hear cheeping from the incubator. My Java babies decided they should get a meal and started yelling too! Eventually they shut up (just as I'd caved and was mixing them up some food). They are 19 days old today so they are definitely behind in the feather department.

 

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