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We paired two Italian quail and a single hatch produced chicks in three different colours. It was neither chance nor a mistake in our breeding. The result could have been calculated before the eggs ever went into the incubator.
Give quail extra light in winter, or let them rest? Every keeper has an opinion on it, but few have actually run the numbers.
When quail stop laying in winter, most keepers blame the frost. But the frost is not the culprit. In our flock, the quail lay all winter long, and without any heating.
In the wild, a quail is not a vegetarian, it gets most of its protein by hunting insects. Insects are worth feeding in a cage too. But which kind brings bigger eggs and which a darker yolk?
You may have seen an ad like this: "For sale: Japanese quail Jumbo Pharaoh meat-and-egg type, about a third are yellow." At first glance an ordinary offer. To an experienced keeper, though, something about it does not add up.
A quail in space? Sounds like a joke, but in 1990 Japanese quails became the first vertebrates to hatch outside Earth. The road there, however, was anything but smooth.
You open the incubator and among the healthy chicks sits one with its legs splayed outward, another with its neck twisted backward, staring at the ceiling. Is it just bad luck, or could it have been prevented?
Breed or line? Dominant or recessive gene? What is the difference between a colour variety and a mutation? A glossary of the terms that the other articles in the Japanese quail genetics series refer to.
Have you selected and properly stored your hatching eggs? The next 17 to 18 days will decide how many healthy chicks hatch. Here you will find exact temperature and humidity values backed by research, a turning schedule and a day-by-day guide.
Pyramids, pharaohs, hieroglyphs. Quail probably wouldn't come to mind when thinking about Egypt. But the Egyptians made it one of the 24 letters of their alphabet. The quail chick hieroglyph represented the sound W and was used continuously for nearly 3,500 years.
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