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Fuly matured Bobwhite. I'm calling it female?? Not seen a gold head and white patch. What say you?

Thanks for your help!

Great idea.

Darn. I thought I attached a video, but it wouldn't work. Thank you for your help.

We raise bobwhites. We've had several rainy days. My daughter came in from collecting eggs and said they were covered in tiny worms. She showed me that the floor is covered in these tiny, almost microscopic worms. They could have been there forever and I've never noticed them. Are they a threat...

Our KC is laying her 1st round of eggs. However, she's laying them right outside our quail pen (high traffic area). We are hoping she continues to lay and sit. But I'm afraid that once she starts sitting, we will disturb her while we tend to the quail. I don't want her to abandon the eggs. Do we...

We had a low of 57. It's just peculiar to me. It's been so interesting to track.

10 eggs from that day...67 total, all from same pen

We are in the fun days of incubation and we've had chick's hatching since the 15th and still more pipping! This is the first time that we have dated our eggs from collection date. We have been collecting so much "data" this go around. We collected for 10 days and have had them hatch for every...

Those of you who are un-opposed to helping a fully zipped egg... -do you help it and then leave it in the incubator to dry or take it straight to the brooder?

On day 21, I removed my eggs from the turner, only to see an egg on the last row completely pipped all the way around. I was assuming that by this time, he was a goner. Here we are on day 23 and he is still rolling and cheeping. We also had a mishap of the lid not being completely in place (not...