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I am letting them be, hoping that they just need recovery time... but, the majority of my flock is old, and seems to be egged out, so, Having more than 2-3 eggs a day would be nice.

Hatched out last fall, so, 8 months or so?

Haha, true. I bought mine from a breeder, but from the "assorted" cage... so, a mix 9f everything.

It is definitely interesting as each batch is different, and each breeding gives different combos.

Thanks for the IDs. I knew some of them, the M/F I'm still learning, though #6 I was pretty sure was male due to the darker head. Definitely getting lots of the gold and red tones mixed into them.

Thanks, me too! Every hatch I do, I get better and better mixes. The joys of not worrying about your breeding pairs :D

Got a bunch of unique and New (to me) colours in my most recent hatch. They're growing into their colours quite nicely. I have mostly no idea whether they're Male or Female... one or two I have ideas. These are just a sampling from the 26 in the last clutch.

I did a search but wasn't really finding my question: All my ladies, and roos, seem to be molting.... they have lots of clean feathers, but there are a ton littered around their pens. Most of my hens aren't currently laying, and haven't for several weeks.... they also keep shoving all their...

I had less issue eating it... more with the killing... For first taste: definitely a different meat, tougher than chicken. Would be nice slow roasted.

So, I just butchered my first quail. I was planning on it eventually, but tonight it became necessary. As my newest hatch was getting older, I moved the hens into a pen with a solo older rooster... Discovered this evening when I got home that the rooster (named Duck) had quite savagely...

Coturnix Quail, yes.

No.... if it's a hen, I'll keep it. If not, it goes to freezer camp. About 4 weeks old here.

That's what I thought I did.... all I did for this post was paste the BB code. Edit**** I copied the wrong code, that's my fault. Should be fixed now.

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Rarest color mix I have from my newest clutch

They are rather nasty to each other. I've had males be overly aggressive with hens, and I have had female peck the eyes, and scalp males. I am changing my arrangement. Males will be living by themselves, and will only be Introduced to hens for breeding purposes.

I think this is going to be my plan going forward. Other than the ladies being.plucked bald, my issue has generally been the other way... the ladies get tired of the males and beat the crap out of them.

Yyeah, I'm working on that. They definitely have more space than 4-5/sqf. For a while though, there were only 2-3 hens per roo, which I know is low. I'm switching it up. This is my first year with birds, so I am learning lots still.

I lost 5 females under a year old, and just lost a rooster. But I'm pretty sure it has to do with my ratios, which I know are low. What I THINK is happening is that the hens are being too stressed by over breeding etc. And overly aggressive roosters. The rooster I just lost had been beaten...

I ordered my first hatching eggs from BreezyBird. Got about 80%hatch rate on shipped eggs (in late winter/early spring). I didn't buy jumbo, but they DO offer them.