Hello all, This past Sunday I took all the extra male quail to the local poultry auction from this hatch and the January hatch. Between the two hatches there were 43 extra boys! It is now much quieter without all the boys calling back and forth and the hens are a little more relaxed. I..
Category: Coturnix Quail
Hey All, The chicks are going to be 5 weeks old tomorrow 3/30/18. Many of the boys are calling frequently, talking with the older birds. I was able to identify three of the all brown quail as males after they crowed right in front of me. They each are now sporting a bracelet to identify..
Here are some links that I found helpful as I was getting started raising my Coturnix Quail. Producing Quail for Home Consumption by Fred D. Thornberry, Texas A&M University Coturnix Quail Farming: Tips for Smooth Quailing, Countryside Daily, June 22, 2017 The A B Cs of Coturnix by Alexandra Douglas, The Chicken Whisperer Magazine, January..
Wow, I didn’t realize it had been so long since my last post! The chicks are doing well and growing quickly. They will be one month old on 3/23/18 and most of them are completely feathered. Some just have a tiny bit of fluff remaining around their eyes. I finally counted them by color and..
Hello All, The chicks are doing great! As of today they are six days old and already starting to grow their pinfeathers on their wings and tails. They are starting that awkward teenager phase where they have both fluff and feathers. It will be interesting to watch as the feather colors emerge – I will..
Day 20 update. All of the chicks are out of the incubator and in the brooder; the incubator has been turned off. The last chick to hatch seems to be doing well – it had a bit of membrane still stuck to its back and seemed a bit smaller than the others, but after a..
Day 19 – almost all of the chicks are hatched and in the brooder. There are a few late hatchers still drying off and two chicks still in the shell. One of the chicks is an interesting color mutation: it has the traditional striping but in red and pale yellow instead of dark brown and..
Exciting news! The hatch started this afternoon while I was at work, and by the time I got home almost half of the chicks had hatched. The basket idea to separate the chicks by parent color didn’t work out quite like I had planned – I think I didn’t think out all the potential issues..
Hello all! Today is Day 15 of the February incubation. The eggs have gone into lock-down after being candled. Of the 80 eggs which started incubation, only 7 didn’t pass the candling and showed as infertile or early quitters. The eggs which did show development were separated into hatching boxes by their parent group so..
Happy Valentine’s Day! I candled some of the incubating eggs this evening and so far the incubation looks pretty good. Of the ten or so eggs I candled only one seemed like it might be infertile. I put all eggs back in the incubator for now and will candle every egg when they are placed..