➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

Is anyone else incubating Button quail eggs? I got roughly a dozen and a half today. They are way tinier than I expected, and oh my, the colour! They're like olives. How does one remove the chicks from the incubator without squishing them? Even the coturnix are incredibly fragile, and these eggs are half their size, easy.

Fake quailies!
Oh my.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Is anyone else incubating Button quail eggs? I got roughly a dozen and a half today. They are way tinier than I expected, and oh my, the colour! They're like olives. How does one remove the chicks from the incubator without squishing them? Even the coturnix are incredibly fragile, and these eggs are half their size, easy.

I am incubating my first set of buttons due next wend or thurs(?) Mr Seans the only other person ive seen with them who i would trust for info on them. Youve got about 18 eggs now or 18 quailies?! Im dying to see thimble sized hatchlings! These eggs are 1/3 the size of cots, ive weighed them

 

[Ebony Rose]

Quail never cease to amaze me! My neighbor asked me to give her some of my young, Japanese coturnix quail, as the last batch I gave her turned out to have four females and one male, great for eggs, not so great for meat... So she's hoping to build her breeding flock, and I'm happy to help her do it.
After giving her the requested amount of 2 week old quail, I only have four left from that hatch, and soon thereafter my hatch of 23 occurred.
Here's the amazing part. I put the four 2-week olds in with my 23 day-olds and observed closely for signs of bullying, there was none. That night, I discovered two of the four 2-week olds doing their best to stuff babies under them to keep them comforted... couldn't have been a need for heat, as the brooder does have a heat source. The broody instinct may be eliminated from their genetics, but the desire to comfort the young is apparently alive and well! I found this totally heartwarming, and felt the need to share the experience

 

[BantyChooks]

I am incubating my first set of buttons due next wend or thurs(?) Mr Seans the only other person ive seen with them who i would trust for info on them. Youve got about 18 eggs now or 18 quailies?! Im dying to see thimble sized hatchlings! These eggs are 1/3 the size of cots, ive weighed them

18 eggs. I really hope they develop—I just set them.
How have these things not gone extinct?? They sound too small to live. They're definitely going to have to stay indoors in winter.
I'll have to pick your brain, then, Sean: I don't trust Google much, especially with gamebird info. I've heard a lot of nonsense.

 

[ShrekDawg]

18 eggs. I really hope they develop—I just set them.
How have these things not gone extinct?? They sound too small to live. They're definitely going to have to stay indoors in winter.
I'll have to pick your brain, then, Sean: I don't trust Google much, especially with gamebird info. I've heard a lot of nonsense.

I think most people or at least a lot of people keep them inside permanently as pets and/or in fish tanks.

 

[mixedUPturk]

18 eggs. I really hope they develop—I just set them.
How have these things not gone extinct?? They sound too small to live. They're definitely going to have to stay indoors in winter.
I'll have to pick your brain, then, Sean: I don't trust Google much, especially with gamebird info. I've heard a lot of nonsense.

Mine had a real high fertility rate jus so ur prepared if u end up with 15 babies dont say i didnt warn you

 

[Kiki]

Mine had a real high fertility rate jus so ur prepared if u end up with 15 babies dont say i didnt warn you

I want her to hatch out 19.

 

[mixedUPturk]

I want her to hatch out 19.

 

[BantyChooks]

Mine had a real high fertility rate jus so ur prepared if u end up with 15 babies dont say i didnt warn you

Oy. Well, they had a rough ride here, so I'm banking on far less than half hatching.

 

[Kiki]

Oy. Well, they had a rough ride here, so I'm banking on far less than half hatching.

Think positive.
19.