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    What is a good price for live quail?

    Lots of people raise them in their backyards here. They just don't advertise or sell them. At the start of Covid, I think I paid $10 each for hatching eggs and had them shipped interisland. I waited a long time in the queue to be sent any, and paid the postage too. It was probably because I...
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    Can I incubate and hatch eggs with 1 rooster and 10 hens?

    Depends if your roo is an equal-opportunity mounter. Sometimes you get a roo with the hots for just one hen and no matter what you do, your ratio is just 1:1. Sometimes you get one that makes his rounds several times a day and wonders where the rest of the hens are. I have one roo well past...
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    Incubator suggestions for beginner?

    I had a guy buy chicks from me because his hatch rates weren't great. He had a really fancy setup and expensive incubator. When he saw my 50+ year Styrofoam box of an incubator I bought second-hand, he just couldn't believe it. FWIW, it has a fan, circulates air and keeps the temperature...
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    Incubator suggestions for beginner?

    Totally right. Birds have been doing this for millennia and all they really need to do is be warm enough. Just make sure your incubator keeps a steady temperature: doesn't spike or drop. A separate inside thermometer/hygrometer is key and I like the Govee products for price and quality. You...
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    Do I spray eggs

    I don't know what the right answer is, but I spray mine with either hydrogen peroxide or diluted Listerine before incubation. I "think" I get better results, but there's no really good way to measure if that's true or not unless I test and compare vast numbers of batches both ways.
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    The ethics of assisted hatching

    I sometimes wonder though, whether the hard hatches are genetic defects or just darn bad luck. If I can hear them calling for help from inside the shell, seems to me they're fighters.
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    The ethics of assisted hatching

    I had a similar situation recently. I assisted and it took the chick about 3 days to get over the kinked neck, then I couldn't pick it out from the others. The hatch was already presold, so if it was deformed I would have culled it because it wouldn't be fair to charge the buyer. I had a hen...
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    Waste tray liner

    Probably should have also mentioned that I garden extensively and I collect the poop for compost. If you can't use it, chances are you know someone who can.
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    Waste tray liner

    I built my cage over a pull-out boot tray. Made of hard rubber, scrape off and occasionally hose off.
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    Brown vs white coturnix

    For me, the opposite. I no longer breed Texas A&M or whites. Just a matter of preference because I've found that if they grow up in a mixed batch, they tend to accept one another. If they grow up with an imbalance of either color, the majority color will gang up on the minority. It's just...
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    Quail Weight Classes

    Ten ounces for a jumbo seems small. I usually tell people my quail are at or near jumbo-sized, and they're about 12-14 oz. Since most of my birds are bigger, it almost seems weird to think there are 5 ounce standard-size birds still around.
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    ➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

    Guess who had quail this morning? Food coma time. (I fed it to him, he didn't help himself. Had to make a decision on a recent hatch.) )
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    ➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

    WOW!! so many. And what a setup.
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    Offering a quail hatching service?

    I just completed hatching for someone else. I probably should have taken a deposit, but the buyer has been following up regularly so I don't think I'll get ghosted. In this case, the eggs were mine, the incubator was mine, the time was mine. He'll take possession of the hatched chicks. I've...
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