WHAT YA GOT SWAP Chat Thread

[chick-among-us]

. Pictures!

 

[fisher101]

Pics please I would love to have some

 

[chiqita]

Here are the little buggers who hatched last night.

Here is one of the manchurians that mommas like to lay double youlkers.

 

[peachncrm37]

Here are the little buggers who hatched last night.

Here is one of the manchurians that mommas like to lay double youlkers.

Are these the "large" quail everyone's chatting about on this thread?

 

[chiqita]

Are these the "large" quail everyone's chatting about on this thread?

Yes. Well not large yet! They are only 7 hrs old.

 

[chiqita]

This is eggs. The little egg is a Serama egg. The bigger cream egg is a silkie egg. The other 2 are lf eggs.
The crumbs are breakfast...

 

[peachncrm37]

This is eggs. The little egg is a Serama egg. The bigger cream egg is a silkie egg. The other 2 are lf eggs.
The crumbs are breakfast...

Wow. Well I'll definitely be interested in swapping for some eggs when it warms up!

 

[chiqita]

Wow. Well I'll definitely be interested in swapping for some eggs when it warms up!

just remeber they are not all that big, but those are all ones too big to go in the incubator from my last collection. I find the smaller and medium eggs hatch better so I send those first when people are hatching.

 

[peachncrm37]

just remeber they are not all that big, but those are all  ones too big to go in the incubator from my last collection.   I find the smaller and medium eggs hatch better so I send those first when people are hatching.

Makes sense. How large are the full grown adults, say in reference to coturnix or bob white adults? Are they a good meat bird or are the eggs good eating? I apologize if these questions have been answered previously.

 

[chiqita]

Makes sense. How large are the full grown adults, say in reference to coturnix or bob white adults? Are they a good meat bird or are the eggs good eating? I apologize if these questions have been answered previously.

The are large jumbo coturnix. James Marie farms is a big breeder that until last year when he had a stroke and lost the vision in one eye used to play with color and size a lot. They seem to take 8-10 weeks to get to full size, and are on the large size (thus the problems with the heart and feet). I have texas a and m's, manchurians, and James Marie s from his lines. I had some snow manchurians but did not get any males from the hatching and he stopped carrying them. I'm waiting for someone else to have those eggs pop up, freaking GORGOUS birds.
I got them last year as a gift for DH, who wanted to work on the tatanka quail project, people recommended starting with his birds. Then his job got crazy and we did not do much selective breeding last year. Except for the quail appocolapse from the last month where 1/2 my birds died from unknown causes ( they do look like it could have been either heart attacks or a few foot problems, or I screwed up somehow, had to tell with quail) I have been extremely pleased with them. I have about 40 growing out now to restock from, and a few sales for the year, just started offering again.
We are in an urban area so quail are good for people around here as an apartment pet with eggs.
If people are actualy interested in eggs I can snag those carmels and put some up, I just thought id gotten 2 trades lately and my eggs are not flying off the shelf so I don't want to hold up the swap.