Today is day 16 - patiently waiting for my quail to hatch.

[chuck12]

In that video of the buttons at 3 weeks they look like they are fully feathered and pecking just like coturnix.
Pretty cool.

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

Lol! they are so cute. I cant wat to see there "popcorn" stage. I opened all my eggs and saw that most where half developed. I am still trying to figure out what did it.

 

[Akane]

Their heads weren't feathered much at all at the time of that vid and they had a strip down their breasts. Now they are just missing some feathers down the sides of their heads. They grow mohawks for a few days.

A strip of head feathers comes in first.

 

[chuck12]

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That's awesome,.. I am very happy to have the 2 that hatched but am ordering more eggs so I can breed them

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

Hopefully my next hatch goes well. I want to start my own breeding stock. The coop we where planning to build has not been built yet so I am going to use the wood and build a huge quail pen.

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

So far I've had 4 hatch and I think they are all going to be silver!! I'm surprised because I thought the brown one was laying but it must be the silver and the male is a blue breasted. Ought to be gorgeous chicks!! I also had a wonderful surprise today - came home to 6 newly-layed eggs instead of the usual 3!

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

Congrats. I just put my porcelain d'uccle eggs in the bator. Next week my button quail eggs come in so we will see what happens from there.

 

[Shared Acres]

Holy moly!

What in the heck would they eat normally can they eat regular chicken food?

Can they be put in a hen house when full grown? How big do they get?

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

I read that they can eat turkey or gamebird food and they get to be about 4" full grown. I am building there brooder but I am missing some materials.

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I feed mine chicken starter (24% protein), parakeet/canary seed, plus veggie and green treats. They are so fun! They don't get very big; maybe the size of a parakeet if not smaller. And beware - they are very addictive!! Here's a pic of just some of mine:

My camera takes crappy pics - they actually have beautiful colors. Once they lay eggs you just want to hatch more MORE MORE!!!