We’re all good!so tired and frustrated from running a quail nicu! some that were perfectly healthy yesterday crashed on me overnight. brooder plate is out! replaced with heat pad on the floor and heat lamp. 35 total hatch of 49 viable at lockdown. i’ve lost 3 so far and 2-3 probable cull if they don’t give up on their own. everyone else ok so far today
so tired and frustrated from running a quail nicu! some that were perfectly healthy yesterday crashed on me overnight. brooder plate is out! replaced with heat pad on the floor and heat lamp. 35 total hatch of 49 viable at lockdown. i’ve lost 3 so far and 2-3 probable cull if they don’t give up on their own. everyone else ok so far today
Silly birds 
MummyWhy is one yelling now? They have food, water, and aren’t chilled (it’s standing on the food hill crying at the moment). I stuck my hand in, and a bunch jumped on.
Whuzzup?
Yes. Sometimes they just want love
I thought I had escaped special needs chicks this time around but I'm now 100% certain little albino is completely or almost completely blind. He's now in a plastic shoebox on his own inside the bigger brooder. He obviously had figured out where the waterer was because I saw him drinking but food is a concept we're still working on. He's got a little mash with some egg yolk in it that's hopefully tempting now. Hopefully the smaller space means he has an easier time finding everything. Have to mark where everything goes every time so he can find it again. I wish I could put another chick in there with him but they are officially 2-day-old teenagers and are SO over that tiny box.
I feel bad because I probably blinded him worse at birth looking at him before I knew he was different
All things considered, will he quality of life?
If he's not eating *and* drinking on his own by tomorrow I will cull, but if he can figure that out my smaller cages would probably work out fine for him at least until eatin' age. He's super healthy otherwise.
