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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: little blue on July 16, 2011, 08:58:15 pm

Title: Quail photos (shearling!)
Post by: little blue on July 16, 2011, 08:58:15 pm

Female Jap (foreground) and Tuxedo
(http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/RuthP/SAM_1276.jpg)

A Range, with male Jap in the background
(http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/RuthP/SAM_1299-1.jpg)

And "Snowy" is a Tuxedo cross, she has some brown bits on the back of her head & wings
(http://i614.photobucket.com/albums/tt228/RuthP/SAM_1303-1.jpg)

Title: Re: Quail photos (shearling!)
Post by: faith0504 on July 16, 2011, 09:43:13 pm

they are lovely  :wave:

Title: Re: Quail photos (shearling!)
Post by: shearling on July 17, 2011, 09:19:22 am

Great photos little blue. Yup can see it really is different, still steady stream of eggs :yum: :yum: and we don't taste the feathers  ;D.

Title: Re: Quail photos (shearling!)
Post by: little blue on July 17, 2011, 02:19:59 pm

Quote from: shearling on July 17, 2011, 09:19:22 am

still steady stream of eggs and we don't taste the feathers

True ..
as you can see, we have  a variety of different feather colours in our little flock .. and it never ceases to impress me that every single egg is different too!  Some more blue, green, beige, chocolate, glossy, dusty-looking, big, small, round, long & pointy....

Title: Re: Quail photos (shearling!)
Post by: Hatty on July 17, 2011, 02:24:21 pm

oooo they are nice are hatching any Ruth?