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  1. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    Going into lockdown and unfortunately the results are pretty bad, I had some issues with humidity early on in the process and it lead to many of the eggs quitting. Of the 14 eggs set only 1 developed, it was from Chucky and Owlet so we'll see what color this little one ends up being. Honestly as...
  2. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    After many setbacks my pens are officially set up with birds in them! No pictures since it's super rainy and overcast today and the light in there is terrible but the first two pairings are set up. In pen 1 we have Terran and Derby and in pen 2 we have Chucky and Owlet. I'll give it a few weeks...
  3. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    Mother nature decided to keep throwing curveballs at me so I didn't end up getting my pens set up until today but I'll be putting birds in them tonight and will finally get to start collecting eggs in a few weeks for this season!
  4. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    Looking back it's interesting how much my plans changed. I'm going to be setting up breeding pens today and tomorrow and the pairings I've ended up coming up with and even the birds I planned to keep are so different from what I said before. My focus this year is on increasing the number of...
  5. CastielH

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    After seeing how my hens choice babies matured I'm tweaking my breeding plans for the season, originally I was going to cross Derby with one of my white males to correct her bad feet and increase body width but after seeing that she's already passing her feet on I think I'm going to keep her as...
  6. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    I have no experience sexing quail but they look adorable!
  7. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    My hens choice eggs didn't disappoint and I had 9/10 make it to lockdown and 7/9 hatch, including one that has been under Pipsqueak! I ended up with 6 white chicks and 1 black. I did give Pipsqueak a second chick and she's been an amazing mother so far and both chicks are lively and happy. I'm...
  8. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    Aquaman is actually DC comics :plbb but you could do Pyro if you want to stick with the X-Men theme.
  9. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    The world's angriest cotton ball has figured out she should go back to her nest after eating breakfast so I gave her back an egg I collected a few days ago so we'll see if she manages to hatch it or not. She is quite a fierce little thing given that she weighs less then a large soda can.
  10. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    I've got 8 hens choice eggs in the future for my first fertility check hatch, here's hoping I get more than one to hatch.
  11. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    She's been sitting on at least one egg all day and is still there after everyone else has roosted for the night so it looks like she's finally figured it out! She growled something fierce when I opened the box to check for eggs thinking she was roosted with everyone else.
  12. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    I found her roosting with everyone else at bed time so it looks like it didn't quite stick, I brought the eggs in and put one of the ceramic training eggs in their place, if she decides to go full out broody she can have the eggs back but I'd rather not have any freeze so unless she proves she's...
  13. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    I will! I want broodiness in my birds (for now at least lol) so it's a trait I want to encourage, and they've been laying in the little box my mom made me build for cold nights to lock them all in so they won't freeze which has a door so I can keep her separated from the others if needed. Just...
  14. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    She certainly thinks so, and I'm not going to be the one to tell her otherwise!
  15. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    Pipsqueak has decided I'm taking too long and she's going to hatch these eggs herself and lord help any human or cockerel who tries to take them from her because they will be screamed at by the worlds angriest little broody.
  16. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    I'm so sorry for your loss! Hopefully you'll get some beautiful babies from those eggs to carry on his legacy.
  17. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    I officially have a second pullet laying! I think the dark days and lack of light are what took her so long but Pipsqueak has been keeping us in eggs with an average of 5-6 a week, and with Derby laying now we're averaging 7-9 (Derby just started a few weeks ago so her body is still figuring...
  18. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    Looking back they're 100% normal quail I'm not sure why I thought they might be blue, I'm blaming it on finals being next week 😅
  19. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    Welcome to the thread! The Facebook group has been a bit quiet lately but with such a small group it tends to come and go a bit. Those birds are adorable, are they Quail or Blue Quail?
  20. CastielH

    Belgian Watermaal

    That's true! I need to do a final go over of everyone individually and weigh everyone for my records anyway so I'll probably find somebody to enter.
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