➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[BantyChooks]

The other day when the hawk was here visiting...after he le

I'm just looking out for the cats. They need play time.


I could never just chunk a quail to my dog.
I'd die.

To be fair, it's a good way of recycling.

 

[Kiki]

To be fair, it's a good way of recycling.

I finished the unfinished bit above.

 

[BantyChooks]

I finished the unfinished bit above.

You didn't actually karate chop him? I would have.

 

[Kiki]

You didn't actually karate chop him? I would have.

Let him say it again and I'll chop him for you.

 

[BantyChooks]

Let him say it again and I'll chop him for you.

 

[Kiki]

@Kullas should be getting close to lockdown right?

 

[muddy75]

It’s about time to adjust it anyway. I made it warm in there because the dummies were piling on top of each other. And with over a hundred, I figured several would die pretty quickly getting squished.

that was going to be my question was if you had noticed them piling up a lot.....the runts/weaker ones always seem to get stuck on the bottom!! my late hatcher seemed to be doing ok and I removed the coop heater last night and found it in the area of probable pile up under the lamp this morning. i’m almost wondering if it would be of any benefit to separately brood the weaker ones or just smaller brooding groups in general.

 

[Kiki]

that was going to be my question was if you had noticed them piling up a lot.....the runts/weaker ones always seem to get stuck on the bottom!! my late hatcher seemed to be doing ok and I removed the coop heater last night and found it in the area of probable pile up under the lamp this morning. i’m almost wondering if it would be of any benefit to separately brood the weaker ones or just smaller brooding groups in general.

This is a great idea if you have at least two slow ones...I'd separate them.

 

[007Sean]

I suck at incubating, so take this with a grain of salt. When my humidity is too high I see a higher incidence of curled toes, splay legs, and yolk sac infections.

Yep, when the humidity is too high during incubation, you will see chicks hatching with 'mushy chick' syndrome. And too high humidity can cause 'stuck' chick syndrome...which is different from a shrink wrapped chick. There is too much fluid surrounding the chick and it can't 'turn' properly, it keeps 'sliding' back to the same point it began pipping and can't 'zip'. When the chick takes a long time in zipping, from my observations, they will have 'curled toes' or other leg deformities.
Some peeps tend to ignore the humidity and worry about temperature.(that's close enough) attitude toward humidity isn't conducive to a good hatch. Under incubator conditions (unnatural) humidity plays an important part in determining the outcome of the hatch and the viability of the chicks.
Sorry for the novel, I'm off my rant.

 

[CayugaJana]

that was going to be my question was if you had noticed them piling up a lot.....the runts/weaker ones always seem to get stuck on the bottom!! my late hatcher seemed to be doing ok and I removed the coop heater last night and found it in the area of probable pile up under the lamp this morning. i’m almost wondering if it would be of any benefit to separately brood the weaker ones or just smaller brooding groups in general.

Yes I know that’s exactly what happened to a few of them.

I tried separating weaklings last batch and slowly but surely they all still died. It put a bad taste in my mouth because I spent a lot of time trying to nurse them. So I told myself no this time. I think I will eventually be able to tell pretty quickly what the signs look like for the ones who will never make it. Then I can put them out of their misery sooner.

The ones that don’t make it get fed to one of my dogs. He waits at my side patiently while I tend to them. He looks at me like how many treats am I going to get today Mom? It bothers me a little but at the same time I know they would just end up in the trash going to waste.