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  1. Susan Skylark

    Cute blonde baby pictures!

    Half of these little buggers are shipped jumbo ginger coturnix the rest are home grown eggs (italian/pansy/roux lines) but they are all a bunch of little blondies! I had to mark them at hatch (had separate incubators) with a little blue marker to tell them apart until they can keep a band on...
  2. Susan Skylark

    Golden pheasants and power tools?!

    We’ve been working on a larger run for our golden pheasant pair, our workspace and bird space is the garage. They’ve gotten fairly chill with the idea of people, assuming they can see you and you don’t do anything unexpected (like come through a different door!). But as we were working on the...
  3. Susan Skylark

    Yes, coturnix quail are domesticated!

    I’ve seen a few old posts here and there asking if coturnix quail (not new world quail!) are domesticated/tame/friendly and being a relative newbie I wondered the same, our local 4-H poultry expert was so uncomfortable with the idea she didn’t want to test them for the fair. After owning and...
  4. Susan Skylark

    Amateur deer hunters anonymous!

    I couldn’t tell a rifle from a shot gun two years ago, but my kid took hunter safety and decided he wanted to go hunting. I got volunteered to take him because I’m good at taking dead stuff apart. He’s gotten doe tags the last 3 seasons and will get a buck next year. Tonight we sat in the...
  5. Susan Skylark

    Disaster Themed Hatchalong and guess the hatch rate on scrambled shipped eggs

    Finally got my bakers dozen of jumbo ginger coturnix quail eggs. They spent a week in the mail, temps have been hovering around freezing (potential cold exposure), and we have saddled and mobile air cells in multiple eggs (sign of severe shipping trauma), this might be a dumpster fire hatch...
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    Selling your eggs before they are layed? Presaling eggs, tips and tricks?

    Not sure where to put this, wasn’t sure anyone would see it in the pheasant board, and we discuss shipped eggs here all the time, just not the shipper part! My question is does anyone pre-sale their eggs from their unique breed/species? If so, any tips and tricks, how do you set prices, what...
  7. Susan Skylark

    Who got murdered? Novel pheasant sounds

    So somebody just got murdered in my garage or at least that is what it sounded like! I got home from work, parked the car, said hello to the birds, and went in the house, only to have a sort of screaming/toddler tantrum sound erupt 30 seconds after I shut the door. I hurried back outside but...
  8. Susan Skylark

    Red golden pheasants, when do they start laying?

    I now have a pair of these lovely birds, I’m still not sure they aren’t AI generated! The guy I got the hen from said they start laying at 2, the internet says 1 year old. Which one is it? I’m actually leaning towards the interwebs on this one, the hen has tripled in size in the two months...
  9. Susan Skylark

    A quail tale

    Just another Saturday morning, just another quail alarm call from the garage. Went out to check, everybody seemed fine, then it happened again and then again, but still nothing. Finally popped out to put some calcium in the feeder and found my problem. I had a rogue quail who wanted back in...
  10. Susan Skylark

    Ginger vs roux

    I just ordered some ginger coturnix eggs, it is a sex linked recessive like roux, has anybody had any experience with the color? Can a hen carry both or just one (same locus on the chromosome?), any idea how it interacts with a gray gene like silver/Blau/Andalusian? It has been interesting...
  11. Susan Skylark

    AI and bird watching

    I’m an amateur bird watcher, and love finding new species when in novel surroundings, we just got back from a trip to the SW US and I was googling some potential sightings, only to have google inform me that certain song birds were common in the area this time of year, including a species of...
  12. Susan Skylark

    Peach quail, so much for awesome theories!

    This is a lousy pic, but easier than camera/download/edit/upload! These birds are driving me crazy! In my first hatch ever I got a peach/beige colored hen. A year later I sold her but I collected 2 eggs and both hatched, one was also a peach colored male, which is the only same colored chick...
  13. Susan Skylark

    Mugged

    I was viciously attacked by a trio of hens today when I was innocently checking their water, they just walked up and started pecking my hand, and considering their size this unprovoked attack was quite unpainful. But they aren’t to blame, I believe my son has incited this violent behavior by...
  14. Susan Skylark

    An Actual Purple(ish) Quail (Just click for Cute Chick Pictures)

    The Blue-Laced Red Wyandotte (or whichever order the colors go!) looks purple to me, there are Lavender Orpingtons (a shade of gray), now it is time for the purple coturnix (sort of): Behold the Scarlet Blau or 'purple' quail! This guy is out of a hatch of nine, all out of a Blau italian...
  15. Susan Skylark

    Purple er lavender quail (a tongue in cheek color diagnosis)?

    So my mystery beige quail that I’ve been trying to discover his (and his mother before him) color since I got quail, finally solved the mystery: purple, but since poultry don’t come in purple, we’ll settle for lavender even if he is orange, I’ll get there, just wait, and yes this is written in...
  16. Susan Skylark

    Light exposure and golden pheasant breeding season?

    I run some Christmas lights in my garage for my quail (light sensitive layers) during the darker months of the year, will this screw up golden pheasant breeding/laying or not be an issue? Thanks!
  17. Susan Skylark

    Any hints on taming down a red golden pheasant, 1 yo male?

    We just acquired a yearling male red golden pheasant who is rather high strung and nervous, obviously he’s a pheasant and hasn’t been around people much. We have coturnix quail, which by comparison are super chill (but the species has been domesticated for centuries and ours are all home...
  18. Susan Skylark

    Are chickens really evil or just misunderstood, at least concerning biosecurity?

    So I’ve been haunting byc for about a year and raising coturnix quail for a few months longer than that, during that time I’ve run across several posts regarding ‘keep chickens away from quail/gamebirds because they carry lethal diseases for gamebirds.’ Does anybody have a list or even an...
  19. Susan Skylark

    Looking for a female red golden pheasant in ND/SD/MN/MT

    Anybody have a healthy female red golden pheasant in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, or Eastern Montana they'd be interested in selling?
  20. Susan Skylark

    Spa day!

    It has been hot here, and the quail just go nuts when I refill their water jugs, not that they are short on water but apparently they are intrigued by the pouring water, almost like cats! I have a little solar powered bird bath fountain thing that doesn’t work all that well outside with our...
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