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Unfortunately the problem has been back since I moved them to a bigger cage :( They now live in a cage 70cm/40cm/50cm and even though I have put many plants and several hiding places for them, they still sometimes jump at night. The only solution I came up with (reading some other forum about...

Thank you all again for the advice! I would probably struggle with the situation for much much longer if it wasn't for you guys. I'm soooo glad I found this forum in the first place because it's such a valuable source of information! And hopefully my quails are happier thanks to that too :)...

First night clear! :) When disinfecting the whole cage I rearranged it to create more hiding places. At night I covered them with a black cloth and they didn't jump at all. That way I don't really know what was the actual problem, but at least they calmed down. I hope it'll stay that way...

Thank you both for the advice. Yesterday I noticed that they jump like that ONLY (and I mean 100%) when it's 100% dark. I have them in my room and whenever I turned on just a very little light after a jump, they calmed down, sometimes even going at that very second to their bed where they...

Thank you for the suggestion. I would never think about mites. However, I'm pretty sure we keep the cage quite clean, to be honest. We use pet sheets (is that how you call them? the ones for little dogs that absorb water and odours) + there is always some sand from the sand baths. We change the...

Hello, I have two button quails at the age of around 2,5 months that I'm keeping as pets at home. We hatched them at home and I think they are two females because we had some eggs some time ago, plus none of them crows, but for the past two days one of them is going crazy at night. For about...

Pics as promised! Newborn black silkie :) Two button quails using a silkie as a cushion right after moving them to a tempoerary brooder ;) The whole family dried out and already making a mess the second day ;) We keep them at home now so they have a very pet-like brooder. Sorry...

I still don't have any pictures here, but we've got three black Silkies and two button quails!! :)) it's amazing! the quails are sooo small and cute! I'll try to post some pictures later one. Oh, and the one that started pipping upside down for around 12hours managed to get out on his own! I'm...

We're so happy!! The chick that's running around already managed to move the upsidedown-one. I took a picture and it seems it's been like this for around 12h. Is it ok? I hope it hasn't dried or anything..the humidity is 72% now, it had been around 63% before the first one got born. I post a...

We have one chick!!!!! I can't believe it! :) Although the one that started pipping upside down is still in the same position:( it moved the beak a bit a while ago but it's still in the same position, after around 15h. Should we move him just a bit maybe? The newborn chick bumped into him once...

Thank you! I can actually see the pip hole just a bit, a while ago I saw it peck strongly at the membrane but it didn't tear and the beak just bounced off the ground. The other two eggs have had cracks for the past two hours but nothing more has happened so far. I guess I just have to be...

Hello everyone, I have a Silkie (edit) PIPPIN upside down. It's only day 19th. Should I turn him so that the hole faces up or should I just leave him like that?? Please, any advice is welcome! Edit: Oh, and the eggs are places horizontally, co maybe it doesn't matter? because they will...

Hello everyone, After the unsuccessful hatch described in this thread, we're giving it another try with 4 silkies and 3 coturnix eggs at the moment. They're going into lockdown today, and my question is how do we keep the humidity high if we're not supposed to open the incubator during...

Hello everyone, I tried to hatch a few quail eggs a few weeks ago but unfortunately non of them hatched. (here is my thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/735388/coturnix-late-hatch-when-should-i-float-test-them/10) I'm using Brisnea Mini Advance and we want to give it another go with...

Thank you for the link! We opened the egg that was at day 25today. It floated, and when we opened it there was a fully-developed chick inside :( it must have died in the shell. What could have been the reason? We kept the humidity at very high level, mostly over 70% sometimes as high as 85%...

Actually we didn't let them rest much after they were delivered. I hadn't actually seen it anywhere at that point that you have to rest the eggs for at least 12hours, plus we were so excited about getting them that we put them into the incubator straight away. Maybe that was our mistake... I...

I opened the one that sank and it appears to have died around day 6 (?) because it was like the chicken embroy on day 7/8 in the picture on this site http://www.poultryhub.org/physiology/incubation/ Does that mean anything? wrong temperature maybe?

Thank you both for the advice. I tried sticking the eggs to my ear and listen but I couldn't hear anything. I'm also aware that the float tests do not always work, I was really hoping they would rock. With a certain percentage of eggs that are actually infertile, plus the ones that start...

I candled and float tested all three eggs. (we actually now have only three, started with four but one turned out to be infertile so we took it out). One sinker, two floated but there was no rocking. When I candled them I could only see that one of the floaters had the air sack but that's all...

Thank you for the suggestion. Will try candling later, although we couldn't see anything in the second half of the incubation because of the dark shells :\. We didn't have any problems with the temperature. The only thing I can think of is that we had the eggs shipped, maybe they were mishandles...