The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[Teila]

Good morning folks

N F C I am pleased to hear you had a good time. Welcome Back!

DMC Congratulations to your son .. wonderful news!

Good luck with the hatch Dawn.

Congrats on the quail bubs J.

I not nuff’n. Oh, it can stop raining any time it likes. The lawn is nice and green but do not stand on it or you sink up to your knees

FIL sent a few pictures of the build and I liked this one in particular as it gives you an idea of the area:



This is Jessie, sitting in the water, waiting for hubby to retrieve the stick he threw too far and which she refused to go and get lol:



Fetch! LOL

 

[N F C]

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.

Keeping my fingers crossed you have a good hatch!

Keep us posted (and pictures are good too).

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.

Adorable babies J!

 

[N F C]

I not nuff’n. Oh, it can stop raining any time it likes. The lawn is nice and green but do not stand on it or you sink up to your knees

FIL sent a few pictures of the build and I liked this one in particular as it gives you an idea of the area:



This is Jessie, sitting in the water, waiting for hubby to retrieve the stick he threw too far and which she refused to go and get lol:



Fetch! LOL

Loved the pictures Teila! Although, although the palm trees did make me a bit nostalgic for south Florida (don't worry, all I have to do to get over that is remember the humidity).

Jessie looks like a smart dog, waiting for the human to retrieve, lol!

 

[DigMyChicks]

Good morning DMC & all 

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 

Thanks Debby! You will have a good season especially with you and hubby running the place...word will get out that its the place to be!

 

[DigMyChicks]

Good morning folks N F C I am pleased to hear you had a good time. Welcome Back! DMC Congratulations to your son .. wonderful news! Good luck with the hatch Dawn. Congrats on the quail bubs J. I not nuff’n. Oh, it can stop raining any time it likes. The lawn is nice and green but do not stand on it or you sink up to your knees FIL sent a few pictures of the build and I liked this one in particular as it gives you an idea of the area: This is Jessie, sitting in the water, waiting for hubby to retrieve the stick he threw too far and which she refused to go and get lol: Fetch! LOL

Thanks Teila, nice pictures

 

[DigMyChicks]

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.

Is that over the road trucking? My oldest son wants to do that. He has his CDL but wont be 21 until next month so can't leave MN.

 

[DigMyChicks]

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.

So cute!

 

[drumstick diva]

Great news on your son

 

[drumstick diva]

The Javas are adorable, I can see slight clues of their eventual coloring.

 

[N F C]

Good morning

Yay, all the hiring is done! I'll have 8 employees to juggle this summer, that ought to be interesting. DH has a crew of 9 guys. The people we have seem more mature and experienced than what we had last year. Hopefully they know more about working and spend less time playing with their cell phones.

DH goes in for his hernia surgery this morning. Gotta get that guy all patched up so he can work hard all summer.

Back in a bit...