So, I started out with 21 button quail chicks out of 50 eggs. One died early, then another died while we were on vacation, putting me down to 19. Then, I sold/traded 2 pair last Saturday and another pair on Tuesday. Now, I finally worked out a deal with the feed/petstore here. I was selling males for $3 and females for $5. They're willing to give $3 per bird. I'm actually thrilled with this price. Anyways, a 50lb bag of gamebird layer feed is $15.15 after taxes, so I decided to round up at least five birds to take in. After stressing over genetics, I finally have it narrowed down.
Keepers:
Red breasted roo (project roo)
Golden red breasted roo
two golden red breasted hens (one is a project hen)
cinnamon hen
ivory hen (project hen)
white (unknown gender)
slate (I'm 95% positive that this is a hen)
My trade-ins:
wild hen
cinnamon red breast roo
blueface roo
2 cinnamon hens
My project birds are just a weird experiment. The roo had long white down as a chick, the ivory hen had white down and the GRB hen had the long down. So, I want to see if breeding them together brings up anything funky. Probably not, but hey, no harm in trying, right?
Keepers:
Red breasted roo (project roo)
Golden red breasted roo
two golden red breasted hens (one is a project hen)
cinnamon hen
ivory hen (project hen)
white (unknown gender)
slate (I'm 95% positive that this is a hen)
My trade-ins:
wild hen
cinnamon red breast roo
blueface roo
2 cinnamon hens
My project birds are just a weird experiment. The roo had long white down as a chick, the ivory hen had white down and the GRB hen had the long down. So, I want to see if breeding them together brings up anything funky. Probably not, but hey, no harm in trying, right?