➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[BullChick]

Number two!

 

[RUNuts]

Are you incubating or scrambling?

 

[Kiki]

I GOT A QUAIL EGG!!!!!

woot!

 

[Kiki]

Duckling sang to it the whole way back to the house, and when I refused to incubate it right now, began telling it over and over that she can’t wait to see what it looks like when it hatches. I think she literally took 100 pictures with her tablet.
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[TheLaboratoryBF]

Sorry to disturb the eggs-in-bator contest
But
What's the most successful waterer for inside quail aviaries?

I have two of these (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01IO9A6RK/?tag=backy-20) hooked up to a gravity-fed system with a 2-gallon bucket and it's working very well so far. The height at which I mounted the line prevents the birds from kicking too much sand into the cups so I just use my index finger to sweep them out every few days and there's never more than a single layer of sand at the very bottom. The birds don't seem to have any problem getting as much water as they need and it will be nice to be able to add ice/frozen water bottles to the bucket during the hottest part of summer around here



I've been using these cups on vertical PVC tube waterers in my chicken coop and run for years and have had no problems with them whatsoever. Highly recommended!

 

[BullChick]

Are you incubating or scrambling?

I’m forbidden from eating them. She keeps talking to them, and only stopped kissing them when I mentioned poo.
I asked her to take a picture or two for me, and she took forty.

 

[TheLaboratoryBF]

I GOT A QUAIL EGG!!!!!

I know the feeling; congratulations!

 

[BullChick]

Got my very first (and second) egg today! 7 weeks old pretty much on the dot...and of course I had to take a glamour shot with my chicken eggs.

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If I’m ever not excited by the first egg from a new layer, I’ll know it’s time to find a new hobby.

I was jealous this morning. Then I got one, and then two too. I still feel cheated since mine were 11 weeks yesterday. I am so happy for us both though!!
Duckling wanted to check for a third literally five minutes after number two.

 

[TheLaboratoryBF]

I was jealous this morning. Then I got one, and then two too. I still feel cheated since mine were 11 weeks yesterday. I am so happy for us both though!!
Duckling wanted to check for a third literally five minutes after number two.

11 weeks! I don't know if I could stand myself. I have two 11-week-old pullets and the only thing that's keeping me sane while I wait for their eggs are these quail...and I was even getting impatient with 7 weeks! Their hutch is completely shaded by a large sycamore tree and I was worried they weren't getting enough daylight to produce.

 

[BullChick]

Mine have lots of light, and hatch mates were laying at six-weeks. I admit I couldn’t find above 24% feed.