➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[ShrekDawg]

Hatch'em!

True!!

 

[BReeder!]

In many things such as vegetables, much of the nutrition gets lost due to the methods of cooking. When it comes to being able to digest the proteins in eggs, they have proven that they are more digestible when cooked.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/protein-in-egg

Available nutrients and digestable nutrients are like a rectangle and a square. Any square is a rectangle but not any rectangle is a square. Specific parameters must be met for a rectangle to be a square. Likewise, not all the available nutrients can be digested. Poop is full of nutrients that get passed right through because the body cannot digest them. Cooking is THE evolutionary advantage that humans have. It's the reason we don't have to sit and eat all day like chimps. Cooking food actually makes a lot of nutrients available. In certain cases though, it does destroy nutrients: for example, proteins are denaturalized (bio lingo for mangled) by heat. However, that same heat breaks down cell walls and seperates (and creates) molecular bonds that lead to available nutrients that can by processed by our short digestive tracts - notice that gorillas, bears and cows all have large stomachs and we don't.

 

[BReeder!]

I have two incubators, i have one as a dedicated hatcher and a bigger one as the main incubator. I add eggs every wk and ill rotate the next ones due to hatch into the hatcher as i clean the hatcher after each hatch is clear

i did this All spring with my wyandottes

You don't clean the incubator then?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Available nutrients and digestable nutrients are like a rectangle and a square. Any square is a rectangle but not any rectangle is a square. Specific parameters must be met for a rectangle to be a square. Likewise, not all the available nutrients can be digested. Poop is full of nutrients that get passed right through because the body cannot digest them. Cooking is THE evolutionary advantage thar humans have. It's the reason we don't have to sit and eat all day like chimps. Cooking food actually makes a lot of nutrients available. In certain cases though, it does destroy nutrients: for example, proteins of denaturalized (bio lingo for mangled) by heat. However, that same heat breaks down cell walls and seperates as well as creates molecular bonds that lead to available nutrients that can by processed by our short digestive tracts - notice that gorillas, bears and cows all have large stomachs and we don't.

This is very interesting. Thanks.

 

[mixedUPturk]

You don't clean the incubator then?

The main one i dont need to clean very often but i have cleaned it twice this season. Part of the point of it is to minimize that work load because the bigger incubator is alot harder to clean. Like 20 screws have to come out of it to get to everything.

 

[mixedUPturk]

I just discovered another chick who has a super swollen eye. He also has growth that seem to be a heart and maybe liver outside the rib cage. The eye was a little big when i took him out of the brooder but it seems to be getting worse...
Also found an egg that had pipped and got rolled over by babies and was dead by the time I found him. Must've happened this morning or maybe last night. He had a pretty large umbilical hernia.
Annnnddd there was a really, really runty chick with another umbilical hernia I took out of the shell last night but left in the incubator to dry. And it died too. Couldn't lift its head or move other than somehow rolling.

Is it my incubation or the genetics???

Im sorry that your having such a hard time and that i dont have the answer.

 

[el dorado quail]

All the way in grass valley? I'm in Auburn off 80, if you pass the 193 exit I'm 5-10 minutes off that.. How much is cover crop and how fast does it grow?

Yeah they want 20 bucks shipping to just east of placerville on 50. So I'm just gonna go pick it up. I'll wave lol. I got a TON of different mixes of cool season stuff. Here was my cart. If you use that coupon you're supposed to get 15% off but it caps at 50 bucks and doesn't apply to bulk discounts

 

[ShrekDawg]

Im sorry that your having such a hard time and that i dont have the answer.

X2

 

[el dorado quail]

Thanks guys. I have a feeling the shipping really messes with them. And from going to 3300ft elevation after being brought into existence at 0 elevation? Might try myshire egg next purchased egg hatch.

@Texas Kiki I will call hatch tomorrow and post stars after I get home from 7 mile hike.

 

[BReeder!]

The main one i dont need to clean very often but i have cleaned it twice this season. Part of the point of it is to minimize that work load because the bigger incubator is alot harder to clean. Like 20 screws have to come out of it to get to everything.

I just have a foam incubator. I could possibly get another as a hatcher or DIY something.
DW would kill me though. I would always have a full incubator, which holds 120 quail eggs... I would need multiple brooders or a huge one too. I did see a stacked brooder system recently in another BYC thread that I could DIY...