- May 22, 2013
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Dear All,
Every batch of eggs I am going through this frustration and many times I feel like giving up. I have an 80% hatch rate with cots and painted but calis...0%.
In the same batch, I have 3 species all incubating together but only the calis pip and do not hatch. 2 days after the pip I shell the egg to see the chick is fully formed, alive, but too weak to hatch! This really p****s me off! Two batched ago I managed to hand hatch a chick that survived but was walking on its knees maybe due to a riboflavin deficiency. Now I am feeding vitamins every 2 days and as from the next batch I will be incubating presumably healthier eggs.
I feed all my quails a mix of seeds as the crumbs in my country are of a very low quality. The mix consists mainly of millet, hemp, rapeseed, canary grass, and various grains. They live in a bottomless aviary so they have access to fresh soil and insects at their pleasure. Quails look very healthy and feathers are perfect. Fertility is good also.
What do you Ladies and Gents think? What is it with cots and painted that is not good with calis?
Every batch of eggs I am going through this frustration and many times I feel like giving up. I have an 80% hatch rate with cots and painted but calis...0%.
In the same batch, I have 3 species all incubating together but only the calis pip and do not hatch. 2 days after the pip I shell the egg to see the chick is fully formed, alive, but too weak to hatch! This really p****s me off! Two batched ago I managed to hand hatch a chick that survived but was walking on its knees maybe due to a riboflavin deficiency. Now I am feeding vitamins every 2 days and as from the next batch I will be incubating presumably healthier eggs.
I feed all my quails a mix of seeds as the crumbs in my country are of a very low quality. The mix consists mainly of millet, hemp, rapeseed, canary grass, and various grains. They live in a bottomless aviary so they have access to fresh soil and insects at their pleasure. Quails look very healthy and feathers are perfect. Fertility is good also.
What do you Ladies and Gents think? What is it with cots and painted that is not good with calis?