Today’s anomalies.

[Whiskybear]

This post is just for gits and shiggles. If ya have quail, maybe you can appreciate it.

With 23 jumbo coturnix hens I collected 22 eggs today. I’ve learned that while there is an average, there is no normal for their eggs. Every day yields a few freaks. For today it was these three.

For those who don’t know what they’re looking at, the white one (premature) is about average size; the two big ones are usual coloration.

From experience eating them, I recognize that the two giants have a 50/50 chance of being double yolk. They are not elongated in shape, those are pretty much always double. I hope to hatch a few goliaths like these this spring

 

[FloorCandy]

This post is just for gits and shiggles. If ya have quail, maybe you can appreciate it.

With 23 jumbo coturnix hens I collected 22 eggs today. I’ve learned that while there is an average, there is no normal for their eggs. Every day yields a few freaks. For today it was these three.

For those who don’t know what they’re looking at, the white one (premature) is about average size; the two big ones are usual coloration.

From experience eating them, I recognize that the two giants have a 50/50 chance of being double yolk. They are not elongated in shape, those are pretty much always double. I hope to hatch a few goliaths like these this spring

I try to hatch all the doubles, I had one hatch last hatch but I didn’t see who came out, and I didn’t count the shells and had already thrown some out. I think it was one chick and a bunch of goop, which I’ve had from the doubles before. 99% don’t hatch tho, they look good until lockdown, and then They quit.

 

[Whiskybear]

I try to hatch all the doubles, I had one hatch last hatch but I didn’t see who came out, and I didn’t count the shells and had already thrown some out. I think it was one chick and a bunch of goop, which I’ve had from the doubles before. 99% don’t hatch tho, they look good until lockdown, and then They quit.

I don’t expect doubles to hatch. But I’ve seen so many of these monstrous eggs of normal shape have only one yolk, I’m hoping they will be viable. I don’t have any good basis for thinking doubles won’t, it’s just an assumption on my part. Are you saying doubles can hatch? I’m curious.

 

[FloorCandy]

I don’t expect doubles to hatch. But I’ve seen so many of these monstrous eggs of normal shape have only one yolk, I’m hoping they will be viable. I don’t have any good basis for thinking doubles won’t, it’s just an assumption on my part. Are you saying doubles can hatch? I’m curious.

Doubles can hatch but it’s rare. I’ve read stories about classroom hatches where they arrived at school and the chicks had hatched and they had more chicks than eggs, but I think most doubles would need assistance hatching if there are 2 live chicks inside.

 

[Whiskybear]

Update: my son talked me into starting early this year to try them; a handful of quail can be kept inside as long as needed. So I set those aside, got another the next day, put them in with half a dozen largish regular eggs. Fingers crossed... if I get a goliath quail out of this, I’ll get a small incubator to make it easier to set them as they come. I’m already dreaming of a freak selective breeding program.

 

[FloorCandy]

Update: my son talked me into starting early this year to try them; a handful of quail can be kept inside as long as needed. So I set those aside, got another the next day, put them in with half a dozen largish regular eggs. Fingers crossed... if I get a goliath quail out of this, I’ll get a small incubator to make it easier to set them as they come. I’m already dreaming of a freak selective breeding program.

I have a freak called Big Bertha, she gives almost all of my double yolkers, and her eggs are always huge and often odd. She also had droopy eyes from hatch, and one eye has kind of sunken in and is barely visible and she can’t see out of that side. Her daughter is normal sized and lays normal sized eggs. I’ve had a couple others of hers hatch, but no one was huge or laid huge eggs. Perhaps if you hatch any, you should cross them back to the mom for bigger size and you might get freak eggs more regularly in that next generation.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I had set a triple yolk-er once. 2 of the yolks were fertile. it made it to day 17 then died. In my triple were one chick about day 17, one under developed chick, day 10? and they absorbed the 3rd yolk, although you could see it when first candled.

I currently have a double, from a near by farm. Only one yolk looks fertile. It is still day 1.