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    Broody Mama Hatched Chicks Within Unfriendlies

    This is regarding bobwhites, but figured the concept is similar. I've got a pretty large covy (40ish birds). Recently I've had two females turn broody for the 1st time. They both have a fairly large clutch of eggs (16 and 28). We woke this morning to a newly hatched chick, barely alive, a good...
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    Mama hatched chick amongst the covy

    I've got a pretty large covy (40ish birds). Recently I've had two females turn broody for the 1st time. They both have a fairly large clutch of eggs (16 and 28). We woke this morning to a newly hatched chick, barely alive, a good distance from either nest. We grabbed him and placed him in a...
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    Bird Flu in bobwhites?

    I've got a covey of 16 bobwhites that were born April 2022. In the last few months, I've lost 3 or 4...when I haven't lost that in total for the last 2 years. I feel like that's pretty young for them to start dying off. I also have a batch of about 30 young ones that I've raised for butchering...
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    Pipped at the bottom

    Two fold question... Day 25 in the incubator for my bobwhites. The majority are hatched and in the brooder, but I still have several cheeping and pipping. I have several that have pipped on the wrong side of the egg. It's more of in the middle or towards the point of the egg. 1. What causes...
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    Female? Male?

    Fuly matured Bobwhite. I'm calling it female?? Not seen a gold head and white patch. What say you?
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    Worms in Coop

    We raise bobwhites. We've had several rainy days. My daughter came in from collecting eggs and said they were covered in tiny worms. She showed me that the floor is covered in these tiny, almost microscopic worms. They could have been there forever and I've never noticed them. Are they a threat...
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    Khaki Campbell nest

    Our KC is laying her 1st round of eggs. However, she's laying them right outside our quail pen (high traffic area). We are hoping she continues to lay and sit. But I'm afraid that once she starts sitting, we will disturb her while we tend to the quail. I don't want her to abandon the eggs. Do we...
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    Not hatching from certain day

    We are in the fun days of incubation and we've had chick's hatching since the 15th and still more pipping! This is the first time that we have dated our eggs from collection date. We have been collecting so much "data" this go around. We collected for 10 days and have had them hatch for every...
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    Zipped Egg

    Those of you who are un-opposed to helping a fully zipped egg... -do you help it and then leave it in the incubator to dry or take it straight to the brooder?
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    Bobwhite Cracked too early

    On day 21, I removed my eggs from the turner, only to see an egg on the last row completely pipped all the way around. I was assuming that by this time, he was a goner. Here we are on day 23 and he is still rolling and cheeping. We also had a mishap of the lid not being completely in place (not...
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