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Proper feeding, and husbandry as well as genetic selection for the specific traits that make a domestically created bird what it was intended to be in the beginning or what you want to become for a specific project. In this case (A&Ms) a healthy, large bird that will achieve its maximum size in...

If you are getting tuxedo offspring then you have a rosetta/tibetan/italian in there. Pharaohs do not make tuxedos in any combination. A&Ms will all have a genetic marker spot, it will be on the head or on the back, they were selected for this trait to identify them as market (meat) birds...

Keep in mind that eggs with no shell (rubber eggs, softshell eggs, whatever people want to call them) are not at all related to calcium intake. They are function of stress due to environmental factors. They come from the hen deciding to clear her vent for various purposes. Hens that are...

Everywhere that sells hatching eggs will ship them to your residence.

Turkey starter will be the most commonly available high protein feed and is usually in the 27% range. Bobs will go cannibal for a lot of things but feed quality isn't one. I know a large shooting preserve producer who feeds their bobs 22% chick starter until 8 weeks then switches to 16% chicken...

Call your state wildlife agency they will be the organization that manages whatever regulations your state has. Every state is different.

Don't candle before day 8 if youre new at hatching. When you do candle don't waste time looking for red dots and veins yet. Either the egg will light up like the second one pictured earlier in this thread or the light wont pass all the way through the egg. Some coturnix eggs are too dark to ever...

Pharaohs are incomplete dominant not dominant. White is a recessive gene, meaning that each parent needs one copy of the gene for a bird to be born white. Brown is incomplete dominant, not dominant. Meaning that if you breed a pharoah to a white bird or recessive white (A&M) you will get...

Different colors of coturnix don't act differently. Your previous birds were more vocal because something was bothering them or they wanted something. It's the only thing coturnix make noise for. Any bird with yellow feathering is going be in the neighborhood of 4-5 weeks but after those...

It has been proven through time and trial that releasing birds doesn't do much for local populations. Some parts of the US have been releasing bobwhites for over 100 years, if it was going to work with any regular frequency, it would have. There are several reasons why it doesn't work in most...

By the end of the 4th week they will be fully feathered and usually ready to come off the heat lamp. Don't rush it though or their metabolism will sap energy used to grow the body in order to grow feathers faster. At any rate until they are fully feathered they cannot retain body heat, and until...

Not to be rude, and it will sound like I am, youre trying to reinvent a wheel that many hundreds if not thousands of people have failed to. Coturnix will not go broody with any reliable frequency. Some will just because of the sheer mathematical possibility but its not something any keeper can...

Yep sometimes theyre even purple or neon blue/green. Seen some pretty wacky colors from stress eggs. On the other end of the spectrum soft eggs are also produced because of stress. Inaccurately most people assume that eggs with no hard shell are due to calcium. They actually come from hens under...

No less than 4 sq feet per bird

Its a stress repaint. Hen didnt feel like laying retained the egg and the ovaduct painted it again. i know youve been looking for blue eggers but you can only get them from james marie farm or from someone who has. The schofield collection Robby imported are the only birds in the entire country...