➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[muddy75]

I meant to bother them a lot but I just couldn't find the time.

I think they will calm down soon.
If they really do stay nuts....I don't know what I'll do.

start feeding them mealworms treats and they will become your friends (flighty friends, but friends)

 

[muddy75]

Hope so. I'm pretty much done with quail. I still have to hatch Myshires though. I feel like a jerk for dropping it. I even had both hands around it and I was moving it into the brooder with the others. It had splayed legs so I had to give it cup therapy.

it happens....don’t beat yourself up....I threw my back out as a result of dropping a pheasant or chukar chick last summer that took almost 6 months to heal i’ve accidentally stepped on them, dropped them and “lost” them to escape and/or the fate of doggie jaws.......thinks happen......just learn from it and do the best you can as in the long-run it is very rewarding!!!

 

[Kessdayton]

So one of the new coturnix babies who’s just 2 days old has been scratching at his chin area like crazy, some times he’ll stop and just vibrate his head like a maniac but it’s not choking bc it’s been eating drinki by and pooping. Anyone know what’s going on? Is it some skin condition that’s bothering him now bc it’s been going on for several hours now but it just got worse

 

[Kessdayton]

So one of the new coturnix babies who’s just 2 days old has been scratching at his chin area like crazy, some times he’ll stop and just vibrate his head like a maniac but it’s not choking bc it’s been eating drinki by and pooping. Anyone know what’s going on? Is it some skin condition that’s bothering him now bc it’s been going on for several hours now but it just got worse

 

[Clearwater Chicken]

is there parasites, thats the only skin discomfort i can think of.

 

[Kessdayton]

is there parasites, thats the only skin discomfort i can think of.

I don’t think there are parasites no but is there some sort of rash that could have formed?

 

[GXSC]

This is my first post here...I have been reading this forum a lot lately.

I started hatching 12 shipped quail eggs 24 days ago...I had 3 chicks that came out on day 17, 18, and 19. I saw some movement afterwards...but till now nothing came out except those 3 chicks.

I am wondering if I somehow killed them. Well I did drop one of them while candling on day 7, so I know how that one went . Maybe I entered lockdown too early (14th day, counting from the starting day as 0)? Maybe it's because the humidity was too low (35%-45%) during incubation (many of the eggs had hairline cracks...so I guess they lose more moisture than normal)? Maybe the humidity was too high after the first chick came out (70% before, 99% after)? The temperature seems to have dropped from 37.5 C from 36-37 C after I lockdown (due to removal of the egg turning plate resulted in more space). The room has no wind and was kept at 24 C constantly with floor heating.

Though one thing I noticed is that, before the chick is dry in the incubator, each of them kicked all of the other eggs around quite brutally...maybe that is the problem?

As for the chicks that did come out...one of them has a wry neck...but it's eating, drinking, and sleeping fine. They are pretty active and already have some large feathers after 1 week! At first the first chick was really attached to me...but as it gained more friends, they all started running away from me. I got them to eat off of my hands when they are hungry in the morning.

...but they typically just scream and hide when they see me...I guess they just don't like me...I have limited equipment so it is difficult to approach them at eye level...

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update on the same day:
OK I gave up on the last 8 eggs (out of 12).
I cracked them open. It turns out that only 3 had some development. 1 of them was definitely going to make it if I hadn't dropped it on day 7. But the other 5 had no development at all! I also tossed out a stinky one that "exploded" (more like cracked) much earlier. So that is about 6 eggs out of 12 there weren't viable in the first place. So I guess I did OK...hatching 3 out of the 6 viable ones (could have be 4 if I was more careful - maybe that is why they don't like me?).

 

[ShrekDawg]

start feeding them mealworms treats and they will become your friends (flighty friends, but friends)

@Kiki doesn’t do treats. although she may now.

Do you feed the dried mealworms or real live wiggly mealworms??? Idk if quail and game birds are the same but I tried to feed my chickens the dried kind once and they turned their noses up at them but they love the live kind. It’s like they know they’re fake* haha



*Yes I know they’re not really “fake”, just dried/dead, but still. Basically an empty shell it seems.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

Guten Nacht,
Do you have any issues using the heating plate? Several of us have tried, but the quail get too cold. I went back to using lights to keep the little bumblebees warm enough. Interested in you experience.
I'd keep the largest. Are you keeping for meat or pets? The Wild type would be basis for everything.

I have no issues with the heating plates.
It's the fourth time I uses em and the quail chicks go under it and are developing well.
Got my heating light still as backup but didn't need it by now.

I keep quails for eggs and meat and also for exhibition and pet.
The standards for exhibitions are too small for meat (250 to 300g) ... so these are more pets

Btw... there are actual 82 hatched. 12 eggs still in the incubator. 82 of 110 is nice ... 74.5% hatch rate

 

[Nabiki]

This is my first post here...I have been reading this forum a lot lately.

I started hatching 12 shipped quail eggs 24 days ago...I had 3 chicks that came out on day 17, 18, and 19. I saw some movement afterwards...but till now nothing came out except those 3 chicks.

I am wondering if I somehow killed them. Well I did drop one of them while candling on day 7, so I know how that one went . Maybe I entered lockdown too early (14th day, counting from the starting day as 0)? Maybe it's because the humidity was too low (35%-45%) during incubation (many of the eggs had hairline cracks...so I guess they lose more moisture than normal)? Maybe the humidity was too high after the first chick came out (70% before, 99% after)? The temperature seems to have dropped from 37.5 C from 36-37 C after I lockdown (due to removal of the egg turning plate resulted in more space). The room has no wind and was kept at 24 C constantly with floor heating.

Though one thing I noticed is that, before the chick is dry in the incubator, each of them kicked all of the other eggs around quite brutally...maybe that is the problem?

As for the chicks that did come out...one of them has a wry neck...but it's eating, drinking, and sleeping fine. They are pretty active and already have some large feathers after 1 week! At first the first chick was really attached to me...but as it gained more friends, they all started running away from me. I got them to eat off of my hands when they are hungry in the morning.

...but they typically just scream and hide when they see me...I guess they just don't like me...I have limited equipment so it is difficult to approach them at eye level...

----
update on the same day:
OK I gave up on the last 8 eggs (out of 12).
I cracked them open. It turns out that only 3 had some development. 1 of them was definitely going to make it if I hadn't dropped it on day 7. But the other 5 had no development at all! I also tossed out a stinky one that "exploded" (more like cracked) much earlier. So that is about 6 eggs out of 12 there weren't viable in the first place. So I guess I did OK...hatching 3 out of the 6 viable ones (could have be 4 if I was more careful - maybe that is why they don't like me?).

One thing that stands out to me is that many of the eggs had hairline cracks. That is enough to kill a chick, and you should discard any that have cracks. If these are coturnix eggs, I get the best results at 30% humidity until pipping, when I raise it up to 40-50%.