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My girls have a bad infestation of northern mites. I had been having good luck reducing the numbers by using oil of oregano. I would put a drop on their backs about once a week. I also cleaned the coop really well and sprayed it down with a solution of the oil and water with vinegar. I...

Ahhhh! So darn adorable!

It's hatch day for me! One egg had a pip when I left for work this morning so now just a few more antsy hours at the office before I get to head home to an incubator full of fluffy little silkies (hopefully)! Now let's see what I can do to not go crazy with excitement till then lol!

Thanks for echoing my excitement lol! In my first incubator I've got 14 silkie eggs, a mix of red and splash and in my second incubator (due to hatch the following week) I've got a dozen Coturnix quail eggs. I am going to be over run with babies soon!

Eek sounds dreadful! Keep warm! If the storm lets up you better get out there and snap some pictures for all of us!

My silkie eggs go into lock down tomorrow and I am so excited!!! Anyone else have some babies about to hatch?

Whoa!!! That's a lot of quail! And here I was all proud to be in the midst of my second hatch of 12.

Hey everyone! Love to see other silkie lovers! This is my first all silkie hatch! I set 14 splash and red silkie eggs on Feb 19th. All the eggs were shipped from My Pet Chicken and since ordering I've read some really bad reviews of their hatching eggs so I'm not expecting a great hatch. I...

Quail eggs are just like chicken eggs to me. I even bake with them! It takes quite a few to equal a normal chicken egg though lol!

Yeah I'm with everyone else. Totally normal, happy, relaxed, and dust bathing type behavior. If they're doing it all the time and have their mouths open and it's hot out overheating could be a possibility too.

It's pretty normal to see a slight spike in humidity when you first put eggs in but it usually goes back to the lower test range after a bit. If it doesn't do this on it's own you might have a cracked egg. That's just my experience though.

It sounds to me like your quail are just starting to mate. Male quail will grab onto feathers on the backs of the females while they mate and pull out some feathers sometimes. it's normal for them to be missing feathers but watch out if they are bleeding at all. Males who do that need more...

Hey everyone just wondering what to do... I have a Coturnix hen that seems to only laying double yoke eggs. I'm just about to start my second quail hatch as I'm just getting started with them and would really like to hatch her eggs to help with the genetic diversity of my flock. Can twins...

Woot! So glad this story had a happy ending! Assisted hatching is so tricky, good job!

Assisted hatching is very tricky and most people advise against it entirely. When a chick pips it has access to air and should be left alone to figure its own way out in almost all cases. Breathing air helps the chick to absorb the blood vessels that are in the membrane of the egg and so when...

Thanks for all the response everyone! You've all given me some great resources. I can't believe that chick made it through the night! One of her legs has already returned to normal and functional position so let's just hope we can get that other leg to fall in line today. I'm not going to...

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this but this morning I found all my chicks trapped under the towel I was using for bedding and now one that was perfectly fine yesterday has legs splayed so badly they're just stuck out behind it. I tried making a brace but I'm not so sure how to do...

I have 5 that hatched on day 19 and I have two more that look a lot like they may hatch. I'm pretty happy since I only set 11 eggs and this is my first try at a homemade incubator.

I just have to thank you all for encouraging me not to give up. Came home today to find three little quail in the incubator and two more look like they have pips!