Sapphire Coast Quail

26/03/2024

My Curly chick. I believe it may just be a hen, too. It's also awfully light for wildtype, but that's probably just the lighting. Parents are homo curly, het Oz Snowy, and homo curly, homoOz Snowy.

It's difficult to see in the photos, but the tips of the feathers are curled upwards. This should be more apparent in another week.

20/03/2024

Location: Australia.

This is my breeding pair of curly Japanese quail, and my first intentional curly hatch. I'll be taking progress photos of this one every day or so to document the plumage as it grows out. I NEEED this one to be a hen!

20/03/2024

I've had Oz Snowy for a while now, and more recently I discovered the curly gene in my flock.

Here's a look at some of my birds. I've included pics of a homo Oz Snowy/homo curly hen, a het Oz Snowy/homo curly rooster, as well as a het Oz Snowy/homo curly chick. Next year, I hope to have curly eggs and chicks available.

Oz Snowy fawn are, in my opinion, the prettiest, but I've noticed significant chick mortality in the first few days post hatching. I don't know yet if I'll be breeding them for sale.

Also, as of today, Oz Snowy is officially in public hands in the US.

06/09/2023

Our araucanas have finally started laying! We'll collect eggs for a week and then incubate them.

These will all be lavender and barred lavender.

06/09/2023

03/03/2023

One of our recent chicken hatches, a frizzle naked neck. Barnyard mix.

22/02/2023

Angel hatched five, we sold one. Sometimes she has four, Sometimes she has none.
White Head hatched eight. Sometimes she has ten. Sometimes she has one.
The black pied hatched 17. We sold one. Sometimes she has five. Sometimes she has 25.

That should mean we have 28 duckies (we do). But NO ONE knows which duckies belong to which mumma.

07/02/2023

I've got two cages of quail that I've basically been getting no eggs from for the last month or so because they've been eating the eggs.

Last week I switched them to regular layer pellets for chooks. Previously, I was getting about 18 eggs a day. Since I switched feed, I've been getting more eggs each day. Today I got 30 eggs.

02/02/2023

A chicken egg at day nine of incubation. Both mother and father are heterozygous naked necks.

19/01/2023

Oh nooo!

This morning I found half a dozen old chook eggs in the laundry room. When I opened the carton, one exploded. I chucked the whole thing out the back door, just wanting to get them out of the house.

I was working on a step ladder a little while ago. I heard what sounded like a gunshot. I thought, "Oh. Those eggs!"

Luna came BARRELING around the side of the house. She shot up the step ladder and into my lap. We both tumbled backward off the ladder...

And that's when I smelled it. After we both went through a gagging fit while trying to untangle ourselves from each other (I swear she grew 100 extra legs just then 😂), we went inside and Luna got her teeth brushed. Oddly, she did not complain! 😂

It is never a dull day with a kelpie.

14/01/2023

I'm fairly certain that these muscovy ducklings are ripple.

12/01/2023

Our smallest quail egg yet.

08/01/2023

It doesn't take long to add up when you're getting more than 15 eggs a day. There's more than seven dozen eggs here and I've already sold four dozen in the last few days.

07/01/2023

Last week I set 78 quail eggs. I've just candled them and discarded ⅓ of them. I didn't count but about ½ of what I discarded weren't fertilised and the rest had started and stopped in the first few days. I expect about half of these to hatch.

Some of these eggs were from quail that had only been laying for a week or two, too.

29/12/2022

78 quail eggs in the incubator, we'll have chicks hatching in 17 days.

21/12/2022

Yay!! This is our very FIRST chocolate muscovy duck, and we are EXCITED.