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Production and Business => Poultry Production => Topic started by: CharlieHorse on May 01, 2007, 10:35:18 AM

Title: First Bob egg
Post by: CharlieHorse on May 01, 2007, 10:35:18 AM

Got my first Northern Bobwhite egg of the year on the 28th of April in southeastern Ohio.

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: sp2207 on May 02, 2007, 11:27:41 AM

thats great news, now just a few weeks and you will have some eggs to incubate

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: Reeves on May 02, 2007, 03:48:47 PM

Don't eat it all in one sitting  :angel:

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: CharlieHorse on May 03, 2007, 10:13:32 PM

Thanks, but no worries about me eating it. It looked like antiqued cracked white paint. This also would be her first egg ever. I should have took a picture and posted it before I tossed it, it was quite odd looking. It's amazing how far you can throw one of those babies!  I mean eggs!

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: jk on May 04, 2007, 10:25:09 PM

Don't you hate the mushy ones? I have also been pretty impressed about how far eggs can travel behind a stiff throw. Also been impressed by how easily they break in your hand when you're rearing back to chunk them!  :laugh:

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: CharlieHorse on March 21, 2008, 09:06:22 AM

Found one in the pen yesterday (3/20) in Southern Ohio.  Almost 5 weeks earlier than last year....... ???   .........according to this post.

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: Pheasant Hollow Farm on March 21, 2008, 09:42:44 AM

I found a couple pheasant eggs impacted in mud yesterday. They are definitely late laying this years.

Steve
Pheasant Hollow Farm

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: Reeves on March 21, 2008, 09:50:50 PM

The wife tells me the Amherst have started a couple days ago.
Reeves likely are as well. She don't go in there, plus the hens hide them well. I'll have to check when I get home Sunday (?).

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: finnegan on March 24, 2008, 09:15:47 PM

.we got our first mearns egg on the 3/21/08 they are inside heated and plenty of light so they are early we also have our first masked bobwhite fertile eggs in the incubator they have been laying for a coule of weeks but the first 12 or so were not fertile we now have 5 masked females laying  and all are feetile  soit looks like the males figured out what to do jim
www.emeraldisleaviary.com 

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: jbird on April 12, 2008, 10:33:03 PM

Have they hatched yet, got to be getting close.

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: finnegan on April 13, 2008, 05:14:25 PM

Our first massked bobwhite have hatched out  first fertile mearns are in the hatcher now  our bobwhite that are outside have just laid there first eggs yesterday jim

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: jbird on April 27, 2008, 10:25:55 PM

Jim,  I was just on your web site to see what all you have going on.  I noticed your shipping boxes, They sure look great for shipping live birds in and hopefully are (USPS) will get them to there destination safely.

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: finnegan on April 27, 2008, 10:54:06 PM

We use the wooden ones mostly for shipping parrots and finches  on airlines they tend to be too heavy for USPS shippingJim

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: CharlieHorse on April 15, 2009, 08:42:41 AM

Found first 4 BW eggs in pen yesterday (4/14) here in Southern Ohio. 


 mkey1

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: jgalo on April 16, 2009, 08:44:18 PM

I don't have any breeders but I saw that some gambels that I released last year have paired up.  Maybe I will have some wild gambels running around soon if it ever rains.  3rd driest season in 100 yrs. here in South Texas.

Title: Re: First Bob egg
Post by: GSP4 on April 17, 2009, 08:21:17 AM

we got our 1st. Bob eggs 4/14 too.   :?:  looking forward to raising chicks this year again, already have orders for most of what we will raise.