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So let me know if my reasoning is off here: roux is a sex-linked recessive, for males to express it they need two copies but a female only needs one (like color blindness in people, just with sex reversed). So with my random chick assortment, anything expressing the roux trait is most likely...

When can I safely remove the heat lamp from baby quail? I can’t move it further away or higher up, they still like the heat but don’t utilize half their floor space because it is too warm for long exposure. They are 10 days old, well feathered, and there are 19 of them in 3 square feeet. The...

Just for fun: describe what you thought the first time you heard a quail crow, extra points if it was an adolescent too! How would you describe the sound to a newbie? I thought somebody had stepped on a frog! What was that, oh! Then another time I thought my son might have throttled his...

This is a horrible picture! Woke up this morning to find our first chick and most beloved bird (of course!) sitting off by itself in the corner, feathers ruffled and rather listless. No respiratory, digestive or neurological signs noted. Cage mates and a bunch of ten day old chicks are all...

This is going to be a really weird question but important for future hatches. I’ve hatched two clutches of quail eggs in a borrowed incubator before recently buying an Amazon el cheapo one. We won’t be incubating again until late summer (once our quail are laying and our schedule permits) but...

I have three chicks that look like this and two pearls. I was thinking the three darker ones like this that were coming in with beige feathers along with the black and white were heterozygous fee while the lighter, plain black and white ones were homozygous fee? Or is this some sort of...

I’ll try and get a better picture on this guy (now 8 days old) but he’s a puzzle. He’s all yellow but has a reddish tinge along the top line/back. I figured he was homozygous English white but his feathers are coming in with a very slight beige tinge (thought they were just dirty at first)...

I have a pen of 5 week old birds and a brooder of 1 week old birds, in 3 weeks we are going on a trip and I’d like to leave 2 pens of birds to simplify things for my bird sitter (this sounds like a math problem!). So the two age groups will be 4 and 8 weeks old. I have at least 4 males in the...

Pop quiz: you have 9 random fertile chicken eggs that have been in the fridge for a week what percentage will develop if incubated? Answer: if they are something you are really excited about it would be 1/9, if, like this particular batch that we are trying ‘just because’ and to practice...

I was leaning towards some sort of Italian fee thing (plus or minus one of the marking enhancing genes: calico, pansy, sparkly) but this is sort of a grayish lavender color or light charcoal. The chick is 6 days old, and I’m impatient! Chick is a light yellow with thick charcoal stripes and...

I bought a cheaper incubator on Amazon l had recently used a borrowed nurture right 360 for two batches of quail eggs. I really liked the 360 but didn’t plan on spending quite that much (plus a quail rail) at the moment. I did a little looking and picked something that looked decent and we’ll...

4 week old heterozygous pied wing white, I’m still trying to figure out this whole quail thing, including boy/girl. I’m leaning male but is there too much white on the breast to feather sex it? Also have a clutch mate that appears to be crowing (homozygous pied, can’t feather sex) is that a...

My first hatch (now 4 weeks old) I lost one chick out of six on day 3, he was a little small and wasn’t growing like the others and was depressed for half a day before I found him dead. The others were fine, no blood or diarrhea, etc, just dead. I figured it was a congenital defect or failure...

I’ve been on a quest to find feed for my quail, I live in a rural area 90 miles from the nearest Walmart, we have plenty of feed stores and local coops and elevators around but most only sell chicken feed, though I can get gamebird/turkey feed if I order 2 tons for my 20 quail! I found purina...

Since over half my current batch is composed of fee influenced quail, that is probably a good place to start on color genetics in these rascals. According to the all knowing interwebs it is a dilution gene (like black in horses) basically washing out whatever your other colors might be (a bay...

I tried this a few weeks ago with store bought chicken thighs and it was so good I’ve been eyeing up our month old quail but happily for them chicken thighs were on sale today😉. I have a ninja foodi so you may have to adapt it to your particular brand. I also like thighs for flavor, price, and...

I’ll admit right off the batch I’m a little weird, I love the process, the mystery, the why, and learning what you can from mistakes and failures, which is why I over candle my eggs and open up anything that isn’t ‘normal.’ Which means my non-hatching eggs from this recent batch get opened up...

Thought this was pretty cool, this is an egg that pipped but didn’t hatch, I cut into the air cell and you can see both the internal pip and where his egg tooth hit the shell cracking it externally. Not sure why he got this far and expired but that’s life and hatching. The next picture is him...

I read the faq on assisted hatching and decided it wasn’t something I was interested in trying, between the issues with the resulting chicks and the time/complexity involved, but my 12 year old quail associate had other ideas! We had a batch of 27 eggs in lockdown and all the hatchable eggs had...

My second batch hatched, it is a mixed color assortment of shipped eggs. I can now identify a pharaoh/wild and a tuxedo chick (thanks to my vast experience with batch number one) but I need an expert opinion on most of these! I love this picture, the only solid black in a lot of 24. Is it a...