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I stick oversized zucchinis from garden in freezer, cut them in half and feed on very hot days. Like this week very hot here so put a few in freeze last night and they will get some midday today as heat peaks. All my birds love them including Turkeys/Ducks/Quail. Winter, I like to drill hole...

What type of Quail are you hatching? I hatch coturnix and they do best at the lower humidity of 30 to 40% and about 50% for lockdown works best for me.

:welcome And welcome to Ohio thread, about as far northwest as you can get in Fulton county.

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Even though you are not giving them anything besides their chick crumble. They may eat the bedding in brooder or anything else they may get their little beaks on and get impacted, that's why most give grit right away. Always better to be safe than sorry. Thought I seen you post another thread...

Navel looks ok. Hopefully it's just really week from hatching and needs some time. But with having to assist hatch there may be reasons it didn't hatch on its own, time will tell. Good luck :thumbsup

Can't really tell from pic but there looks to be more exposed than just yolk sac. Doesn't look promising at all sorry to see your hatchling looking like that.

Just before internal pip the air cell recedes/gets larger fast.

Just looks like hatching waste shouldn't be a problem.

It takes 5 or 6 days for incubation of cocci so if they are only about 4 or 5 days old it's not cocci. Looks heat related to me. Also, some brooder plates are only recommended for ambient temps above 50 degrees.

Brooder plates work like a hen by touching the warm plate. The chicks need to be able to come in contact with plate with their backs. Best to put plates on an angle low in back higher in front so they can find a comfortable heat range for themselves. Sounds like a heat problem as they can't get...

Congrats glad to hear you have had a good first hatch. Only time I would hatch upright and not laying on its side, is if it had a bad/dethatched air cell. And I wouldn't leave turner like that in incubator during hatch, as it's too easy for hatchlings to get hurt. Gaps holes too many things for...

When you candled was it internally pipped? Or could you tell if air cell has receded?

Actually, you will probably lose more sleep than they will. :)

Looks like outer membrane also not just shell. If it is that close to hatching, I would leave it alone and hope for the best.

With your hen trying to cover that many eggs it usually doesn't turn out well. You should only ever let them sit on as many eggs as your hen can cover easily. With too many the eggs on outside are not getting incubated. As hen moves turns eggs those unincubated eggs get moved under her and those...

They will be fine. :thumbsup

First night in new brooder? if so, it's just scary unfamiliar they will get over it. I would have them in their coop so I wouldn't have to hear it.

What are your nighttime temps at 7 weeks old they could be outside already. Is their coop ready I would have them in that already. No such thing as too big only too small. :D

I usually have good luck with all different aged poults in brooder together most of the time with my large barn brooder with plenty of room. As long as the youngest is a week old and getting around good. And as @R2elk stated have had many try to mother younger, but sometimes you will get a very...