➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Pennys Mama]

can anyone answer my genetics question? I feel insignifigant

I'm no help when it comes to quail genetics....

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I'm no help when it comes to quail genetics....

Ditto.

 

[BullChick]

I just pulled four more, and thought I heard another. I checked the first pipper, and it is emerging slowly.

 

[RUNuts]

I just pulled four more, and thought I heard another. I checked the first pipper, and it is emerging slowly.

Mission accomplished and more coming! What a glorious day! Callooh-callay!

Did you get the grass mowed? I'm waiting until the morrow.

 

[Nabiki]

I have a couple more pips this morning. I'm keeping busy here on the computer and I'm making a batch of chili today. I've never made quail chili before, so we'll see how it turns out.

 

[007Sean]

I see my first pip! You'd think I'd be over the excitement by now, but it never gets old.

Edit: I just set 12 button eggs in my little incubator. I really want to see if higher humidity makes a difference in the hatch rate. I wouldn't have set these except that I'm pretty sure I have a buyer for the extras.

I've been hatching all kinds of birds for 50+ years, I still have that 'first time' wonderment with every hatch!

 

[RUNuts]

QB#14 - day 8
Set1 has 30 homegrown eggs - all developing.
Set3 had 4 see if they are fertile eggs - all clears and pulled.

How long does everyone keep the quail? Set 1 is coming up on a year old, but showing great fertility and all the hens are laying. Getting crowded around here though.

 

[Pennys Mama]

Look what I found this morning!!!! How do you water these little buggers without setting it up as a drowning pool? The clear lid beside the HUGE Button is to a little water bottle.

 

[Clearwater Chicken]

This makes me want quail sooo badly

 

[BantyChooks]

Look what I found this morning!!!! How do you water these little buggers without setting it up as a drowning pool? The clear lid beside the HUGE Button is to a little water bottle.
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Put small rocks in it. I use a parakeet waterer for button quail now. Also, make sure you have feed piles in multiple locations across the brooder; I've found it helps keep their caloric intake up during this fragile stage.