➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

View attachment 1919800 View attachment 1919801 30 hours after first pip w/ 30 eggs at lockdown.
25 healthy looking chicks in brooder
1 zipping
1 pipped
3 sitting

22 wild color
2 yellow (???)
1 something else.

1 yellow is from known white set#3.
1 yellow from the i didn’t mark origin group, call it set#3.
1 something could be anything.

They crawled over my dividers.

Two more dot heads!

 

[Kiki]

Can you check to see if she's blind in that eye? It appears to me that it may be filled with blood....possibly an injury you're not aware of...

I tried checking for blindness and I don't think she is blind. It's a little hard to tell though.

Zero fighting but a peck to the eye could have happened.
I'll check more today.

 

[Kiki]

I thought you are not supposed to open the incubator after lockdown?

I might have let a few hatch in my hand.

 

[R2elk]

I might have left a few hatch in my hand.

Just a few?

 

[Kiki]

Just a few?

I think the total number is 5-6 from different batches.


*Let them hatch in my hand.

 

[muddy75]

DH said he had to put some of the babies out to “genpop” today.....said 1 was really aggressive and had bloodied one of my already scalped adults in there. He also said that once released he attacked just about about every bird in the aviary!! not quite 3 weeks old yet!!! way too early to be such a meanie!

 

[Kiki]

DH said he had to put some of the babies out to “genpop” today.....said 1 was really aggressive and had bloodied one of my already scalped adults in there. He also said that once released he attacked just about about every bird in the aviary!! not quite 3 weeks old yet!!! way too early to be such a meanie!

Cut his head off!

 

[muddy75]

Cut his head off!

we’re processing a batch tomorrow.....just don’t think he’s big enough to take out.....hopefully he will chill out for a couple more weeks! going to move rest from shed to grow-out tomorrow and try to keep them in there for a week or so before release. then i can get all my brooders and incubators cleaned and stored until i decide to hatch again!

 

[Kiki]

All three of my Pansy babies are male.

 

[ShrekDawg]

All three of my Pansy babies are male.
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Is that good or bad?