bad influences

Just want to say I think you lot are a terrible bad influence on me.

I have my little gang of chicks and am I satisfied now? NO!!!
Now really really want some jumbos or some different colours-or prefrebly both!

trouble is I already being moaned at over electric bill (I hatch a lot of chicken chicks too) and am ending up quietly plotting how I could set a brooder up out of sight! ... that and peering at various ebay listings!

just fancy setting another 24 or 36.... that'd be enough then I'm sure

WHAT - Us a terrible influence - never. Quite frankly I'm shocked that you could think such a thing

there really is so many different types & strains to collect, I'm trying to develope a beautiful strain of Blue/Silver japanese quail, I'm hoping to have spare eggs available in the s................, oh and have you seen the.................., and oh oh CPQ are just.............!!!! hehe only teasing

Seriously though, I haven't let my OH see the electric bill the last 2 quarters, I'm just so glad its paid by monthly standing orders

ooo blue silver sound rather nice:) I just LOVE blue silver birds.
cpq I must admit I do not find tempting-had the little horrors before and couldn't cope with the manic speed of them ! might have just been the strain I hatched but they were total loonies! very beautiful colours though when they stayed still long enough to get a glimpse.
its the jumbos and multicoloured japs that I'm drawn to. my finger keeps hovering on the BIN button on various ebay listings!
I love the ease of hatching with the quail and speed of maturity-my other love-serama bantams are total swines to hatch so it is just wonderful watching the quail break out like the gremlins-up running and ready to go.
anyhow I've figured I shall HAVE to hatch another set as I do think my market japs are very inbred so could do with hatching another batch so my favourite little gold cock has some unrelated hens and the hens from this group an unrelated cock. good reason erhh?

Sounds good to me

I've banned myself from eBay, every time I'm on it leads to more eggs - I really don't have much willpower when it comes to quail.

Go for it Sunnyside. Life's too short not to do the things you love! I just think of all the dosh I save as I'm just happy to stay at home with my birds for entertainment instead of shopping all weekend.

Harrie

eggs ordered

will have to try and hide!!!!!!!!!!!!

What type of eggs did you get?

2 dozen golden giants from Game For Anything
they sound exactly what I'm after. apparently likely to get odd white one pop up so a little colour variety but mainly I'm after size increase as my market jobbies -adoreble though they are-are for most part a rather scrawny undersized crew.

is game for anything a shop type thing or a seller also am the same only had 5 quails till i joined here now av 37 and 36 eggs coming next month lol

http://www.gameforanything.co.uk/

thats the website
will let you know how I get on with my set. they sounded nice on the phone-the women and her quail descriptions!

Ooh i've got offspring off ther eggs, there really nice quail

Suz, do you have offspring from their Golden Giants?

Martin

I have Martin!

Harrie

PS - not laying yet tho

Here's a piccy

I'm putting an order in now.

Martin

How much are the Golden Giant eggs? I couldn't understand him.

Martin

cant be bother with all the phoning stuff lol

Hi Martin - I think all his eggs are £2.75 per doz plus postage. We popped in on the way back from a holiday and he is a really lovely man.

ok Thanks

You need to get hold of the women-I couldn't understand the bloke either!
she told me 2 dozen were £12.50 delivered via special delivery.
charges £3 per dozen plus post.

Very reassuring to see some of my eggs relatives-they all look beautiful big chunky quail.

Oh they're big - I'll post a better pic if I can the blumming thing to load!

The chap is hard to understand but I could have spent all day chatting to him.

Here's another pic

Harrie, what was your hatch rate (%)?

yeah, his jumbo's are quite big. my eggs didn't come from him directly - Dean's (forum) stock all came from him, and I got eggs from Dean - golden & white Jumbo's - fertility wasn't to hot as they had only started laying, but I got a couple of lovely girlfriends for spike

eggs arrived.
24 very well packed and none broken/cracked.
be exciting seeing what colours get too. lady said majority gold but they get odd normal pop up and a few whites.