Recent content by optio100

Hi! If you still have them my dh and I could pick them up and give them a good home.

Just a quick update because you all were so nice to help. It passed away this morning. There were 2 others in the incubator. One that hatched on it's own and the other one that I helped. BTW, the two that I helped were trying for so long, and I didn't take them out for fear of damaging them...

Lord, it's going to have to wait til morning. I can't do this in the middle of the night. Why does this stuff always happen at night? It's so much more upsetting at night. I read in another thread that there's a lot of enjoyment from this, eventually, and I'm trying to picture it. So far...

This is a difficult topic, but I never see people discuss it. My last hatched quail chick is twisted in a way that it's not going to get up and survive. What should I do with it? Of course it's already being picked on. How do you put it down? I don't want it to suffer needlessly. I also...

Well, I eventually separated them by putting the quail in a small box in the bigger tote box. The chicks seem so big and developed already at one day old, believe it or not, and they were definitely pecking at the quail. The temps now read 92/93, but neither the chicks or cots are lumping up...

First of all - you guys are the bomb! Answering questions in the middle of the night! I moved them in with the chicken chicks, even thought they are only about 1/5 as big as them. They get different food, though so both feeds are in there. Perked the chickens right up though. One of the...

I just hatched a few chickens and quail. I've got the lamp on the chickens, but I quick put together a Mama Heating Pad the best I could for the quail chicks. I know it's supposed to be all the way down, but the quail are so tiny that it's almost impossible to squish it low enough. I think...

Hi all! Just introducing myself, per admin request. I am incubating my first chicken and quail eggs right now, fingers crossed. Definitely want to do the quail, but the chicken eggs were more spur of the moment when I purchased a second-hand incubator. I'd really like to do ducks, too, but...