Recent content by calichickies

Yay! So happy you've made it to lock down with evidence of life in all of your eggs. Isn't it amazing how much that air cell can grow at the very end. I guess they are 'bigger' then and consume more of their egg and so the air cell is able to expand (for lack of a scientific reason-- I'm no...

Oh Gosh! A power outage on day 20... I'd probably just die. Acck! But quick thinking on using your broody-- what a sweet Mama. I'm sorry they didn't all make it... but at least you have the 7. Mother Nature -- she is all powerful isn't she!

Good Luck to you!! I'm hoping for the best for you.

Hi There - just wondering if you have any personal experience with sexing by leg feathers. What I mean is: If you have a clean legged roo and a feather legged hen would their chicks be sex-able with regards to the leg feathers? Would all the clean legged chicks be roos and all the feather...

Did you get this chick a new home yet? Where are you exactly? I'm in the bay area. Thanks for helping this little baby.

Well-- I'm no expert -- we all learn as we go, but I'd say everything sounds great. You'll want to have your hatching conditions just right for the majority of your eggs. What I'm saying is you don't want to alter the whole bator just because one egg is coming along slower than the rest. You...

I hope you had a nice hatch... way back when. I just wanted to ask about the 28 non-viable eggs you mentioned-- "several fully dark eggs" were these rotten or were these eggs ready to hatch? If they were fully dark how could you tell that they were rotten and not full of a chick? I've got...

Thank you very much-- extremely helpful and informative and 'professionally' written.

Just saw this page -- Comes with Very high ratings by others on BYC. https://www.vailsquail.com/ Check out their 2014 Deal -- 2014 Special 30 Eggs (10 A&M, 10 Jumbo Brown and Golden Speckled) shipped anywhere in The USA $20.00 Includes shipping from what I can tell. Sounds like an...

Thank you so much for the info. I will PM you now. Cheers!

http://www.strombergschickens.com/prod_detail_list/Quail-Button-and-Japanese Hope this helps. And you can always try Craigslist in your area too...

This has been a great thread!! dc3085 - do you sell any eggs or mature quail? Where are you at? I'm in the Santa Cruz, CA area. Thanks for your contribution to this very informative thread.

Just FYI ... http://www.strombergschickens.com/product/Bobwhite-Quail-Eggs/Quail-Eggs-Fertile Looking for some myself...

Ooooo Love the UK.... awww... England....

We still don't quite understand what it is you are saying. Are you saying the fertile eggs that you have received have been incubated to the 3rd day and then shipped to you? This is what we are researching. Also... are you stating that you like to let your own fertile eggs sit out on the...