➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[WVduckchick]

We are at 16 chicks out of their eggs. There's a few more actively breaking out. The incubator is action packed. Chicks lounging, walking, climbing over eggs, eggs rocking, chicks pipping and cracking through eggs, chirping... wow! It's popcorn alright!

Excellent! Conditions must have been very stable, so kudos to you. The chicks also look very perky and robust! Good stock.
Were they eggs from your stock or what?

 

[Kiki]

Hey @Texas Kiki , just found this, maybe your quail need this help?
Everyone's favorite frisky quail are back with an update on how much money they blew: goo.gl/cGonMN

 

[BReeder!]

Excellent! Conditions must have been very stable, so kudos to you. The chicks also look very perky and robust! Good stock.
Were they eggs from your stock or what?

The eggs were shipped from Orchard Hill Poultry in Georgia. Very well packed, great customer service and just shy of 70% made it to lockdown.

 

[BReeder!]

Took our dog, Rudy, to the vet. She has tapeworms. Ugh! We have only had her for a month. She likely had the worms from before we adopted her, but they didn't get far enough in their life cycle to show in poop until now.

 

[BReeder!]

Now that I am back, there's 30 chicks out of their eggs. I don't think one of them is going to make it though. It looked stuck behind the membrane which was rather rubbery in this one egg. I gave it just a bit of help. Then it muscled its way out of the egg and I think tore a blood vessel near the yolk sack. It bled a bit. I lightly pressed paper towel to it near the bleed, avoiding pressing on the yolk sack. It stopped so I left the chick alone. Now it's just laying in the fetal position in the incubator. There were a few others I helped just because the shell sort of caught them as they were trying to get out. They looked like chicks caught in a bear trap made from egg shell. I just lifted the "lid" of the shell and they were on their way.

 

[BReeder!]

Overall the chicks are doing very well. I'll be moving the ones who are dry and moving around to the brooder in a bit. I ended up working from home once I decided Rudy had to go to the vet.

 

[Kiki]

Took our dog, Rudy, to the vet. She has tapeworms. Ugh! We have only had her for a month. She likely had the worms from before we adopted her, but they didn't get far enough in their life cycle to show in poop until now. View attachment 1643612

Did they give her a pill?

 

[BReeder!]

Did they give her a pill?

She got two different pills. I will be giving her the same dose in 10 days. They also sent a stool sample to the lab to be safe and make sure it's the only parasite she has.

 

[BReeder!]

Options for feeding trays anybody? I think they are too small for chick feeders I have from raising chickens. .

 

[BReeder!]

The brooder is rustic for sure. The first 24 chicks are in the brooder now. There are more in the incubator still and yet more eggs waiting to hatch in the incubator as well.