My new quail babies!

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

7 little ones hatched lastnight. I just happened to be out when the first one hatched and got a text from dbf with a pic. Got home in time to see 3, 4, 5 and 6 hatch They're soo cute! I went from chickens, to many many chickens, then a few ducks, and now quail!

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#7 off on his own passed out!

 

[trailchick]

Awwwwww!!!! So cute! love that #7!

 

[nurse_turtle]

#7 made me giggle out loud! They will be that cute for exactly a DAY before they're all grown up and sophisticated.

 

[mz.candiz]

Awe cute cute!!! I love when they fall asleep like that!!!! Thanks for sharing the pics

 

[keckels]

#7's the winner, glad for the caption, I thought something was wrong with it.

 

[bfrancis]

nice!

 

[Stellar]

#7 is a keeper!

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

I woke up to 2 more babies! One has splay leg though. I put a little bandaid on his legs and he's doing really well. Tried a shot glass at first but he's too little! I have paper towels on the bottom of the incubator and after the first group hatched it became less textured I guess.. Will not use paper towels in the incuabator again!

Little splay legged in the front. Doing pretty good with the leg braces!

 

[mochicken]

I used to use paper towels but after I had several chicken chicks over the few hatches have splay leg I switched to cheese cloth, it has more of a "grip" on their little claws.

I most recently started using cheapo "rubberized shelf liner" its $1.50 for a roll so I use a piece and throw it out after the hatch to use a fresh piece on every hatch. I dont remember how long the roll is but I have cut 4 pieces of it for hatching and still have more than half the roll so I figure I could get 8+ hatches out of a $1.50 roll of it.

 

[bfrancis]

Yea, more fuzzy butts

! Congrats! How many more are you expecting?

I use equine pine pellets for bedding in the brooders and they seem to do really well on that. I believe that it easier to clean too....it breaks down very nicely and go into the compost pile.