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  1. birdymama

    WARNING- AVOCADO

    Thank you everyone for your condolences. Really need to get the warning out there, for all those who don't know and might easily make this mistake with good intentions in mind. @Grandmabird, I've since learned that avocado is toxic to all birds, not just baby quail, it is also toxic to dogs...
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    WARNING- AVOCADO

    Just thought I would impart some advice following a very sad day, so that hopefully nobody has to go through the pain and loss of what i just went through. Avocado is toxic to Quails. I had about 5 baby quails a couple of weeks apart that i was raising, about my tenth time rearing babies in my...
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    Body hatching with Coturnix

    My new babies... Healthy and kicking. (hint, feed banana in the first week to get them enough vitamins, heard that they can die from vitamin deficiency in the first week.poke at whatever you want them to eat, and keep in mind, one on it's own will bond more readily with you than two or more even...
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    Body hatching with Coturnix

    I stuff them in my bra in a tissue during the day and put them in a small wooden box i clutch to my chest under covers at night. Human body temp is 36 degrees Celsius. Warm enough to hatch eggs, and better control than an incubator, no electricity, no humidity needed, in fact i would warn...
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    Body hatching with Coturnix

    Mum gave me another 5 eggs not sure what day they were on, it is winter and the chicks never survive in good temperatures, so here i am again. Of those 5 two were viable. One had a break in it, i put a bandaid with silver in the bandage part and a bit of betadine and crossed my fingers. Seems to...
  6. birdymama

    Hatching Help! 1st attempt at incubating

    I would leave them for another 3-4 days. Cold temperatures can delay the hatch date. Have you been disturbing them much? Can you post a pic of your candling results?
  7. birdymama

    finally starting to hatch! i think....

    Probably internal pipping or attempts at external pipping. Whatever you do don't try to give them an air hole or help them pip. They need the carbon dioxide buildup to complete the zip action. It is normal for it to take 24-48 hours after first pip.
  8. birdymama

    Cold Eggs

    It might delay the hatch, or they might have quit. Just wait and see.
  9. birdymama

    Pip oozing white and red like substance, intervene?

    The temperature or humidity may be too high. This sounds like what happened when my friend decided to turn up the temp on my homemade bator without telling me and all my babies cooked while desperately trying to hatch early. Really horrible experience. Did not realize till after.
  10. birdymama

    Body hatching with Coturnix

    Had six of them hatch over the past month, had two quit in incubation due to going cold while i was asleep and had a third that hatched but fell from a height while i was preparing a lamp for it and died from internal injuries a day later. Here are some pics of my surviving babies.
  11. birdymama

    Body hatching with Coturnix

    Could be anything, strong vibrations of public transport, cold, or sweat, possibly deoderant or soaps? If you feel you are sweating too much place a single tissue between your skin and the egg. I use bi-carb as a deoderant because i don't feel safe using the brand types. And use coffee scrub and...
  12. birdymama

    when to help chick

    The chick needs carbon dioxide build up to activate the pipping action. Has it pipped the entire way round or is there just a single hole. If it is just a hole has been more than a day and the membrane has dried out carefully remove shell help the chicks head out and let it do the rest.
  13. birdymama

    Need help???? Please :)

    Be careful. If humidity is too high, eggs will become more fragile or spoil.
  14. birdymama

    HELP!! Day 9 temp fell to 70F

    Should be fine. They might take longer to hatch but that is all.
  15. birdymama

    Foaming at the pip hole???

    Bacteria got into the egg somehow and the egg went off from the sounds of it. The chick would have died. The bubbling gas would have made the pip in my experience.
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    Body hatching with Coturnix

    Ok so. My mother had one of her coturnix go broody and allowed her to sit on 4 eggs. She seperated her from the others after one of the babies hatched and was pecked to death. The mother squashed the other and stopped sitting on her eggs. So she asked me to hatch them. It's been over a year...
  17. birdymama

    Body Hatching

    When the weather gets a bit warmer i will have another go. The bonding with the chick sent me into a very happy/domestic mood. It was kind of fun and i think i miss it. The chick is doing well still. But the quails in my mothers aivery are not laying yet. They tend to stop when the temperature...
  18. birdymama

    Body Hatching

    Quailsong, I used to dream about hatching a baby bird in my hands like that when i was younger. I used to steal chicken eggs from my mothers coop, draw a smiley face on them and carry them round like a baby. Make a little bed for them next to mine. We never had a rooster so i doubt they were...
  19. birdymama

    Body Hatching

    Maybe, I had my suspicions when working in a high rise on temp that the elevator ruined one of my hatches.
  20. birdymama

    Body Hatching

    Yes, I think because your clothes can breathe you don't really need to worry about it. I did however wrap the eggs in a very thin tissue to keep my sweat from affecting. I had a similar problem the first few attempts to pontanna, where they would make it to the end but die before hatching. But...
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