➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[FloorCandy]

The beauty of many things is there are a lot of right ways to do things.

Some people don’t reuse, or they hand wash, or take the shelf liners to the laundromat, so it is not a concern, but my husband will kill me if I break a new washer in under 2 years haha.

 

[FloorCandy]

My strategy for spring sales was to hatch a group of sex links in January, keep all the females and grow them until they start laying and sell them as laying celadon adults. It worked great (I profited about $150 on about 20 hens), and last hatch I kept 17 sex link hens with the intent to sell them at going outside age (3-4 weeks weather dependent). They are just over 2 weeks old, I have someone wanting 8. Then, about 4 days ago, I had someone reply to a very old ad. I didn’t see it until last night because when I have active ads I just search my mail each morning for “craigslist” and answer any I get, but I haven’t put up an ad in months.

I replied to this guy today, he lives about 45 minutes away, but was working a job in my town, and had downtime, and was like can I pick them up in 12 minutes? I was shocked, stuffed some flip flops on my kids and headed to the meet up. $75 for 9 female chicks 2 weeks old! So much easier than raising to laying age, less than half the time spent raising them, and I got like 2/3 of the amount of $. I took down my sex link setup because I built a new pen, and I’m moving everyone’s pens under my deck. I wish I had set more before I did that. This won’t make me rich, but it will feed my project birds most of the summer haha.

 

[TeePants]

This dummy is zipping completely the wrong part of the egg

 

[FloorCandy]

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This dummy is zipping completely the wrong part of the egg

It looks like luckily that egg is not that narrow on the pipped end, it might get out fine, but keep an eye on it.

 

[kurby22]

Okay the babies are almost fully feathered (feather balls with fluff heads hehe). I’m guessing their colors are mixed...but wanted thoughts now that they’re a bit older

I love the coloring, I thought B was the pharaoh type but the color seems to be closer to blacks and grays mixed with brown...and A is a very uniform pattern that seems black and white with some lighter browns? So pretty!

 

[TeePants]

It looks like luckily that egg is not that narrow on the pipped end, it might get out fine, but keep an eye on it.

Hmm, how long should I wait before I do anything? He’s not really made any progress. I don’t want to disturb the rest- this dummy was the first one to make any major progress.

 

[Kiki]

I had a couple like that from shipped eggs, I think they hatched anyway. I’m not certain tho, I remember wondering if they were gonna do ok, but I didn’t mark them so I’m not sure.

I've had some like this before and they didn't have any problems hatching.
Don't you go and be jinxing me now.

 

[Kiki]

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This dummy is zipping completely the wrong part of the egg

Walk away.
Just wait.

 

[Kiki]

Hmm, how long should I wait before I do anything? He’s not really made any progress. I don’t want to disturb the rest- this dummy was the first one to make any major progress.

24 hours.

 

[Kiki]

Tee...every single time, 99.9% percent of the time, that I have helped an egg it has either died or I've had to kill it.