I seen a snake near the coop. I went to go get a shovel to “take care” of it, but by time I returned it was gone. It looked like it was a rat snake but I’m not certain. When closing up the coop for the night, I noticed one of my hens had a snake bite on her wing. You could see the two fang...
This evening will be day 21. Not sure what went wrong. The one chick that did hatch is perfectly health and was right on time. The eggs came from Craigslist, so maybe they weren’t the best. Idk.
I have 43 quail eggs incubating. I did dry incubation with temp at 99.5 and humidity stayed around 30-35%. I am using a nurture right 360. There where no incubator issuers or drop in temp. The temperature was double checked with a back up thermometer. They went into to lock down and the humidity...