➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[BReeder!]

As of yesterday, I'm up to 40 eggs in the incubator.
I'm done adding eggs though. We will have a staggered hatch up to 4 days apart now. I think that many of the initial batch will not develop because they were up to 9 days old when I set them, which is not impossible but I know the odds of developing drop off quickly after 7 days. Hopefully we get at least 20 quail out of this hatch. 30 would be awesome.

As for our recent hatch, they are coming along very well. We had 27 living quail chicks last time I posted about them. We lost 1 though the other day. They have already grown some wing feathers and started flying/fluttering straight up. Two got out of the brooder so I decided to cover it. I grabbed an old large window pane that I had in the garage and placed it over the brooder. This was a dumb idea. One of them flew up at some point and hit the window pane, breaking it's neck. i removed the window pane and now need to fashion a new brooder cover. I have some heavy vinyl window screen scraps. I think I'm just going to put together a wood frame and staple the screen to it with some slack in case they fly into it.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Yes. One is even needed for ornamental pheasants also. If the person only uses them for self use (can't even give away an egg) the permit is free. If selling or giving away anything, eggs, meat, or live birds, the permit costs $50.

Id buy it and make the buggers pay it back.

Heat is over rated guys.

I much prefer this to the Feet of snow they get up north.

As of yesterday, I'm up to 40 eggs in the incubator.
I'm done adding eggs though. We will have a staggered hatch up to 4 days apart now. I think that many of the initial batch will not develop because they were up to 9 days old when I set them, which is not impossible but I know the odds of developing drop off quickly after 7 days. Hopefully we get at least 20 quail out of this hatch. 30 would be awesome.

As for our recent hatch, they are coming along very well. We had 27 living quail chicks last time I posted about them. We lost 1 though the other day. They have already grown some wing feathers and started flying/fluttering straight up. Two got out of the brooder so I decided to cover it. I grabbed an old large window pane that I had in the garage and placed it over the brooder. This was a dumb idea. One of them flew up at some point and hit the window pane, breaking it's neck. i removed the window pane and now need to fashion a new brooder cover. I have some heavy vinyl window screen scraps. I think I'm just going to put together a wood frame and staple the screen to it with some slack in case they fly into it.

Sorry about the losses for over 30 hatchlings!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Id buy it and make the buggers pay it back.



I much prefer this to the Feet of snow they get up north.



Sorry about the losses for over 30 hatchlings!

And I prefer the snow.





Remind me I said that when it’s February and there’s snow everywhere and it’s below freezing

 

[Kiki]

And I prefer the snow.





Remind me I said that when it’s February and there’s snow everywhere and it’s below freezing

I gotcha.

 

[mixedUPturk]

And I prefer the snow.


Remind me I said that when it’s February and there’s snow everywhere and it’s below freezing

I will!

I gotcha.
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We* will!

Also my hens are finally picking back up got 8 eggs insteada 4 yesterday.

I think im gonna alter up my hatch schedule though and do chicken eggs today so theyll hatch about a wk after the quail i have set and then a wk from today add more quail. Ive got abuncha sex link eggs and BLRW and people are really still looking for chicks this late in the season. Plus hatch day would line up w the next big swap. Then a wk later would make quail hatchlings line up for just after the swap.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I gotcha.
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I will!



We* will!

Also my hens are finally picking back up got 8 eggs insteada 4 yesterday.

I think im gonna alter up my hatch schedule though and do chicken eggs today so theyll hatch about a wk after the quail i have set and then a wk from today add more quail. Ive got abuncha sex link eggs and BLRW and people are really still looking for chicks this late in the season. Plus hatch day would line up w the next big swap. Then a wk later would make quail hatchlings line up for just after the swap.

Lmao thank you both!!

And that sounds like a perfect plan!!

 

[R2elk]

Id buy it and make the buggers pay it back.

Because you can't sell live birds or hatching eggs to anyone who does not already have a permit there is virtually no market.

Wyoming ranks 10th in area and 50th in population.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Because you can't sell live birds or hatching eggs to anyone who does not already have a permit there is virtually no market.

Wyoming ranks 10th in area and 50th in population.

Well im sorry sir. I still love them so much i would have to do it for the meat and eggs. Im glad im able to make them pay for themselves without all those hoops to jump through. Would you also need to have permits for selling eggs and or meat?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Because you can't sell live birds or hatching eggs to anyone who does not already have a permit there is virtually no market.

Wyoming ranks 10th in area and 50th in population.

Oh wow that’s crazy haha

So few people.

Well im sorry sir. I still love them so much i would have to do it for the meat and eggs. Im glad im able to make them pay for themselves without all those hoops to jump through. Would you also need to have permits for selling eggs and or meat?

X2

 

[ShrekDawg]

Because you can't sell live birds or hatching eggs to anyone who does not already have a permit there is virtually no market.

Wyoming ranks 10th in area and 50th in population.

Funny, Massachusetts is almost the exact opposite according to that. 44th in area and 15th in population.