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44+tennessee red bobwhite quail hatching egg*ready now
44+ Fresh Tennessee Red Bobwhite Quail Hatching Eggs
My tennessee red bobwhites are laying well and fertility has been checked. I have about 200 birds in a colony cage with a ratio of 2 hens / 1 rooster. All birds are from 2009 hatch with several different bloodlines.
(Beautifull quail). The eggs are from first year layers and are raised in a colony cage with 4 different bloodlines. Incubation time is about 23 days. Please see incubation chart below for futher information as well as a link for incubation troubleshooting. We hatch some eggs of all breeds every week just to keep a check on the fertility of the eggs.
Hens are solid mahoghany with dark peppering on their backs with little white bibs on their chest.The males usually have black masks.
All birds are raised on wire and eggs are gathered at least twice daily.
When eggs are received it helps to let eggs set at room temperature overnight before placing into incubator.
Circulated Air incubators: 99 3/4 degrees F; 84 to 86 degrees F wet bulb, reduce during last week of incubation.
Pale buff to white with moderate pink/brown spots
Lower humidity than two above species, wet bulb of 83 F; hens will lay several clutches in captivity, reports of 50 eggs per hen are not uncommon.
Pale Buff to cream, light spotting.
Humidity: 82 to 84 degrees F wet bulb.
Humidity as in Scaled; chicks may not start eating on their own. Also known as Benson or Douglas Quail.
Keep wet bulb at 82 degrees F; chicks will need help to learn to eat.
Pale buff to cream, no spotting
Wet Bulb of 82 to 84 degrees F.
Very tiny chicks, can slip through 1/2 inch hardware cloth; better known as the Button Quail.
Also known as the Pharaoh Quail and Migratory Quail; commercially raised for meat and eggs.
Incubation troubleshooting link
http://www.msstate.edu/dept/poultry/trouble.htm#EH
