➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Nabiki]

I didn't get a video of the hatch...

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

Guess who had quail this morning? Food coma time. (I fed it to him, he didn't help himself. Had to make a decision on a recent hatch.)

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[Patiocoturnix]

Guess who had quail this morning? Food coma time. (I fed it to him, he didn't help himself. Had to make a decision on a recent hatch.)
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My cats love when I harvest my meat birds they always get at least one to share and they go feral lol.

 

[scyllarus]

The deformed chick would not eat, so we culled it. I appreciate our bullsnake in times like these - he'll eat anything and so he gets to be our failed chick disposal.

 

[Nabiki]

Guess who had quail this morning? Food coma time. (I fed it to him, he didn't help himself. Had to make a decision on a recent hatch.)
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My cats get a lot of the innards when I process. They know when it's time to come running from the sound of the shears.

 

[Nabiki]

I had a moment of panic when I couldn't find the chick...

 

[Nabiki]

I'm having so much fun watching this single chick with the old hen. I opened the brooder to make sure the heat lamp was working (It's turned off a couple times), and the hen stood up, walked a bit, then shook her wings and the chick fell out.

 

[007Sean]

I'm having so much fun watching this single chick with the old hen. I opened the brooder to make sure the heat lamp was working (It's turned off a couple times), and the hen stood up, walked a bit, then shook her wings and the chick fell out.

Yep, it is kinda funny when that happens.

 

[Nabiki]

My fertility test is looking good! I set 102 eggs and pulled infertiles yesterday. There are 83 eggs left in there, but 10 of the eggs I pulled were from my retirement pen, which has all old birds, so not a surprise. My scarlets had the next worst fertility. Only two each pulled from my jumbos and calico fee.

This definitely tells me that the calico fee hatch I tried earlier was just too soon. 40 out of 41 of those were infertile.

 

[Nabiki]

The single calico fee chick seems to be doing fine.