➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[ShrekDawg]

So much catching up for you! I almost feel like Im following you


I gotcha

Do you mean the pretty buttons are more violent?

yesss! I stayed up so late last night trying to before I gave up

At least this is helping my reaction score though

 

[RUNuts]

@RoosterML if you look at my gallery, you can see one of my coops.
Quail Coop 8'x2'x2' | BackYard Chickens - Learn How to Raise Chickens
see if this link works to the gallery.

Select gallery above. Search posted by me.

 

[RoosterML]

@RoosterML if you look at my gallery, you can see one of my coops.
Quail Coop 8'x2'x2' | BackYard Chickens - Learn How to Raise Chickens
see if this link works to the gallery.

Select gallery above. Search posted by me.

I really like the pantry shelving idea!

 

[RUNuts]

I really like the pantry shelving idea!

Old refrigerator shelves, but yea, recycled, upcycled and cheap from the dump. Working good as doors.

 

[BethReed]

Hatching has begun:

 

[Pyxis]

A new, very yell-y Celadon chick hatched today. It appears to be a tux.

Now if the other eggs could hatch so it would stop yelling, that would be great.

 

[FloorCandy]

She’s been very dedicated... she would starve to death/die of thirst before leaving the nest if I didn’t take her off daily to eat, drink, and poo! I don’t anticipate problems from her but will have a brooder set up just in case - I have 43 in the incubator set the same day. I’m hoping she’ll let me foster some of the others on her after hatching.

I’ve heard quail can get caught and injured/strangled by the silky feathers, the quail are too small and delicate, plus quail are hard for chickens to brood because they wander off and it’s the fathers duty to round them up. They will lay down and die of cold if the hen is too far away, instead of going back to her.

 

[FloorCandy]

A new, very yell-y Celadon chick hatched today. It appears to be a tux.

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Now if the other eggs could hatch so it would stop yelling, that would be great.

He’s getting the others hyped! My solo chick never calls, not even when he was fresh hatched, I guess he could sense he was the only one who made it.

 

[Pyxis]

Ahh, sweet silence.

 

[BethReed]

I’ve heard quail can get caught and

injured/strangled by the silky feathers, the quail are too small and delicate, plus quail are hard for chickens to brood because they wander off and it’s the fathers duty to round them up. They will lay down and die of cold if the hen is too far away, instead of going back to her.

They’re doing great. I’ve heard that about chicks of all types with silkie mamas but I’ve yet to see it happen in over two decades of hatching under silkies... perhaps there are bloodlines out there with fluff that long, but I’ve never seen it personally. It is definitely true that they don’t speak the same language at first, but they learn to communicate quickly. I keep Mama and babies confined to the nest for the first 24-48 hours. By the time they leave the nest the chicks have learned that she’s the safe and warm spot to snuggle up.

They’re in the brooder together now, with a ceramic heat emitter over one end just in case a chick gets confused and wanders off. In a day or two I’ll remove the supplemental heat and trust Mama to take care of their heat regulation.