Got our first pixie egg today it's just what that call these lil bitty ones they pop out sometimes pretty neat


And nex to a regular and like jumbo one we got a few days ago

Coturnix will sometimes lay an egg smaller around than your finger nail. Those most tiny fairy eggs usually don't contain a yolk.

Occasionally a hen, that just started laying, if she didn't lay any pullet eggs, will prolapse. It's usually fatal if they do. Point of lay is the next main time of death after the first 72 hours.

The pullet eggs usually hatch well, but the chicks are smaller.

The biggest eggs some coturnix hens lay don't look physically possible for the hen to pass. Some will have as many as 5 yolks.

Keith

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Adorable!!

I had a Little Golden Book of Jack and the Beanstalk when I was a child and it showed the giant eating a huge plate of like a hundred dippy eggs. Normal eggs for us but they were small to him. I always wanted a bunch of wee tiny dippy eggs

You should see button quail, Coturnix chinensis. Button quail chicks are bumble bee size. House sparrows are about 2 inches longer than a button quail. The coturnix quail, Coturnix coturnix, can be over 16 times larger than button quail. They are related species.








Back in the nineties, I used to be one of the top two largest shippers of button quail eggs in the US. I sold around 65,000 button quail eggs a year. I still hatch out a few thousand a year.

Keith

Keith, have you considered writing books along the " Foxfire" line ?

I've never heard of it. What is it?

Keith

The depth of knowledge and the variety of eperiences exhibited here on T'man is really remarkable.

What are their names?

Pretty neat, but what do you do with button quail?

gcs beat me to it

I sell most of the button quail for reptile food and lots of them to people as pets. I sell small numbers to people who train and hunt with kestrels. Many people that keep finches, or other small non aggressive birds, keep button quail in their aviaries, to add variety, clean up spilled feed and to brood chicks that leave their nests to early.

Most of the coturnix go for pet food too. I sell huge numbers numbers to people wanting meat and eggs too. Smaller numbers of coturnix go for dog training and falconry.

I've probably sold well over a million and a half birds. I've only ever named two. I named the first homing pigeon I ever flew, a recessive red, tiger grizzle, Ugly Bird. He was going through a molt when I got him and looked rough. He lived to 23. I had a white homing pigeon live to 26, that I started calling Methuselah at around age 24. Methuselah reared babies up to about a month and a half before he died. I don't know for sure that he was the sire.

Keith