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And here they are in all their nearly-two-week-old glory! All 15 of them are happy and healthy, so I feel like this has been quite a successful first try so far. Also, I may just be going crazy, but now that their feathers are coming in it looks like all 15 of them might be female!? Is that...

And here she is about 5 days later after the shoes came off - success! No more clubfoot or spraddle leg.

Here's a photo of one of my little guys wearing her shoes...

Oh, I also meant to say I had two with really severe splay leg/spraddle leg, so I put each of them in a small drinking glass lined with tissues for about 5 hours overnight, and they're totally cured... you can't even tell which ones they were. So that's a relief.

Thanks, laughing dog! You must be right, because despite my 100% certainty that none of the eggs would hatch at all because I'd killed them all accidentally when the temperature spiked, we have a happy outcome! I put 2 dozen eggs to incubate - 5 were infertile when I candled, so that left 19...

First one just hatched!!! The kids have named him/her Schnell. Cos she/he was the quickest. Sooooo cuuute!! Can't get decent pics yet cos of the incubator. We're all glued to the spot watchibg the others for signs of action.

I dont know yet what colours we'll get... the breeder that I bought the eggs off has a wide range of colours (and breeds super-large quail, apparently) so we'll see. It's nice to have the surprise to look forward to. I woke up this morning and lots of them are pipping, and I've heard a few...

Well, they're in lockdown! fingers crossed...

I will definitely be boring everybody with lots of photos of new chicks... hopefully!

It's behaving itself now! We've just had some really hot days and I think it couldn't cope with the room temperature oscillating between really hot and air-conditioned. I ended up putting it inside an esky to try and protect it from shifts in temperature, adn that seemed to work. And candled a...

Hi all! I'm a bit excited/terrified - I bought a Janoel12 incubator and ordered some fertile quail eggs, and set it all up and started incubation of 16 eggs 10 days ago. Turns out the incubator is rubbish - I think the thermostat broke about 6 days in, and it overheated horribly - I thought I...