About 9 years ago, I hauled 23,500 dozen hatching eggs down to Laredo, TX. They were going across the border to be hatched and raised for broilers. On the way there, I thought to myself, "If I get into a wreck, that's an omelet even I can't eat. lol! Can hardly wait to see what they look like. Never saw baby chukars before. Another great video, enjoying them a bunch. Ohio shuts down tonight at midnight, here in Indiana, we shut down tomorrow at midnight. 😣 Stay safe and stay healthy.
Hello Tina and Mark hope y'all are doing well. Thank you for sharing your talents and those chuckers are so pretty. Prayers 🙏 and God's blessings. Much love and big tx hugs from South Tx.
Your excitement makes me exited because when I was a kid my father and my older brother used to hatch eggs for our local farmers. They are so cute, us little girls used to watch them all day we were amazed and still am about new life.
I don’t have any kind of birds but that doesn’t stop me from getting excited along with you. Exciting to see how many hatches. It’s like an adult surprise doll.
😄😄😄Had to laugh there at the end, wondering what the Chuckers were talkin about! "Hey, where'd she take our eggs! Can we call somebody about this?" LOL
Hellow! Good afternoon. I'm a follower of your channel and I like it very much. I got very exited with your activity concerning raising quails and the more loving bird for me are chuckers. So I started with about 24 baby quails ordered by mail delivery. Wen I got them, placed them in a plastic container from H Depot and used a plastic jar with the red plate in the bottom for the water. Next day I found that the jar was defective and all the chics gort wet. I found 10 dead and dryed the rest with a hear blower. They survived. Later wen they started flying, moved them to a cage I made with the front and 2 sides wire mesh 1/2 x 1/2". The back and top 1/4" plywood and a small 10x 8" door in front. It has 1" x 1/2" mesh in the bottom and handles the droppings very well going through. Wen they started laying I did not closed the cage door well and wile I was out my wife called me and said: bad news!! The quails scaped and I cached one and put it in the cage with one that stayed inn. I went back home and managed to catch 3 more.that was very traumatic for us. But the lesson was learned. My friend gave me a damaged Chinese incubator and I repaired it and learned how to operate it. So I started to hatch eggs and today I had the surprise: One egg found on the cage. I have around 100 quails From 3 different hatches. About 68 are going to lay eggs starting today with one egg. Ggrrrrate!! I'm soooo exited. I sold yesterday 4 dozens to a dely market about 200 yards from my house from the 2 female and 1 male birds that survived from the first group I started with. But the best part is with the chucks. I got them in march and today they are almust 9 months old!!!. Is this normal? Oh my friend, some one told me they start laying at 6 month old. Please, let me know if it is true!! I'm confused with this situation. I have them (11) in a cage 3 1/2' x3'. And they get along very well. I noticed that they have the spurs growing like 1 1/2 millimeters long, so, I supose those are the mails. Beside, the mails have the beck longer and the females shorter. But I think I should separate them in 2 groups. I have 5 mails and 6 females, so, I think about putting one mail in one cage with 3 ladies and the same count in another cage. And save the 3 resting mails in a third cage for spare!! Please, tell me if this is a good balance to start!! I thank you in advance for your help in this matter. My cell phone is 407-301-6364 and my email address is: leorodriguezt@hotmail.com . If you prefer to text the answer, fill free to do what is more comfortable for you. Maby I should put all the chucks together in a 8' x4' x4' high cage I made for 8 Hains I had last year.?
Sounds like you are off to a great start... We all hit speed bumps at first, but it sounds like you are adapting and finding ways that work for you... Chukars, being game birds, and they will lay during laying season like wild birds, more so than like chickens (or even quail), nomatter their age... 6 months is reasonable, but so is 9 months... I think its more of a seasonal issue... Male chukars will fight (and kill) each other during mating... I like the 1 to 3 ratio... Or you can mix them "most" of the time, but separate them when you see signs of aggression (though we have had them fight right out of the blue)... Not sure you need 3 males as spares... With two groups of 1 to 3, if one male dies, the other can easily service the 6 hens... Thank you for sharing... I hope you will keep me up on your progress as time allows ! And Merry Christmas !!!
I love birds period...I love baby especially. I enjoyed helping my dad with his when I was a girl. I cannot wait to see yours because you have some types that I have never seen and this will be very interesting. I am glad that you are sharing. Stay safe my friends and God bless.
Yes... It was a little pricey, but it has lasted us for many years without a single problem... Some of those years we turned it on around March and it was literally on 24/7 till Sept or so....
I absolutely love baby anything! I'm excited for you, your happiness is infectious. I found myself smiling ear to ear watching you smile. I can't wait to see the new baby chuckers, and can't wait for the duck eggs to go in. Hopefully I'll be getting my baby chicks in 2 weeks I can't wait!
Thanks I had chickens in my 20's but got married and moved to an apt. Now I'm widowed own my own house and ready to have chick's again, any advice on feed bedding etc? It's been too long I can't remember what I did back then.
Saw the orchard was full of blooming pear trees. They should enjoy them when they get big enough to perch in them. I imagine it's easy getting to them later in the year when the leaves fall off the trees just in time for the holidays.
Staying home and enjoying RU-vid channels like yours. We have wild chukars and quail in our yard occasionally and they are so cute. Quail have both parents with them when they go exploring. Are chukars the same, a nesting pair with their brood?
They spend most of their time following the hen around when they are young... We may try a natural hatch later in the year once we know we have enough hatched otherwise...
question❓ we too have chukars and have been breeding them but problems while hatching their eggs in the incubator.. the embryo develops but mostly in the final days we find them dead in shell.. what could be the problem? some even peep the shell but than die before we could help them out.. and I would like to know what you feed your chukars during their breeding period? thanks a lot..
Sounds like either a temp problem (too high, maturing before their hatch date) or humidity too low, in which case the egg sack is shrinking to the chicks, locking them in...
We have several brooders to keep the different aged / breed chicks apart... Chukars grow fast, so maybe a month? As soon as they are fully feathered, they will go out...
Much easier with an incubator... You get a higher hatch rate, you can candle to avoid rotten eggs, you dont have to protect the chicks from the other adults, etc... The more control you have over the process, the better off you are in the end...
I suspect that you and Mark are possibly driven for your passionS BY some of the same issues that I NOW face. I learn so much from watching your channel. I am now struggling with challenges and changes with issues in, gardening and animal husbandry, , that you all HAVEo have met and now TEACH others. I appreciate it immensely. COULD YOU TELL ME WHAT IS THE HEAT SOURCE FOR YOUR INCUBATOR? aLSO, WHERE DID YOU PURCHASE YOUR INCUBATOR, I MAY BE INTEESTED OM CHECKING THEM OUT TO PURCHASE.
The heat coils are in with the fans and controlled by the control panel... We purchased ours directly from GQF because we wanted to get it and all the options from one source... So we ordered the incubator, the auto water system (option), the glass door (option), the rollers it sits on (option) and some of the consumables like the humidity sponges and paper liners for the hatching box...
HI,,Question for the two of you,,how come you guys don;t have any beehives,I have watch the channel for three years and was just wondering,love to you both.
LOL... We should do a lot better job explaining that... Tina and I have lived this lifestyle for almost 25 years... And through that, a person pursuit was to support the wild / native bee population in how we garden, and providing them with pesticide free flower gardens... That is why it is BUMBLEbee rather than HONEYbee... I know it has caused some confusion, but that is the long and short of why our name is what it is... I will try to do better showing the flower gardens and the bees that come to visit....
Yeah, Tina and I were talking about that earlier... Ours are a couple weeks out from laying too... If you hang around, I think Tina will film collecting bob white eggs for the incubator when we start....
In the wild, they break off from the group to do it, into pairs... It is difficult for them to do it in a captive situation... They are too distracted by the others and do a really poor job of it...
