➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[littlechick2000]

Finally got a very rushed photo shoot in, if you could even call it that. I grouped the twelve of them by patterning and color so if anyone has an idea about what they might grow up to look like I'd be very interested

 

[Kiki]

View attachment 1566467 View attachment 1566468 View attachment 1566469 View attachment 1566470 Finally got a very rushed photo shoot in, if you could even call it that. I grouped the twelve of them by patterning and color so if anyone has an idea about what they might grow up to look like I'd be very interested

I love all the colors...I have no clue what they will grow up to look like though.
Hopefully you can keep track of them as the flow for us.

The are too cute!

 

[Kiki]

I just collected and cracked today's 1st egg laid.
It is NOT fertile.
I am now beginning to think I just set a whole bunch on non fertile eggs.
This is going to be great!


I have all eggs labeled so I know which ones were laid on which date.
I am wondering if the 3 males I butchered (two had big boy parts) where the males that did the fertilizing of the very first two eggs I cracked open that were fertile.

I still haven't seen any mating going on.

 

[Derrin]

I jsut collected and cracked today's 1st egg laid.
It is NOT fertile.
I am now beginning to think I just set a whole bunch on non fertile eggs.
This is going to be great!


I have all eggs labeled so I know which ones were laid on which date.
I am wondering if the 3 males I butchered (two had big boy parts) where the makes that did the fertilizing of the ver first two eggs I cracked open that were fertile.

I still haven't seen any mating going on.

Is any of them crowing?

 

[Kiki]

Is any of them crowing?

I am pretty sure I only have one male left and I have only heard him crow once. They are all very quiet and don't really make any noise...ever.
I did crack open the second egg that was laid this evening and it was fertile.
So hopefully some of the ones in the bator are fertile.

 

[Kiki]

My quail lay right at dusk.
I haven't gotten an egg in the morning yet...just the evenings.

 

[KikiLeigh02]

Any chance the infertile was a new layer? Does it work with quail like it does chickens? Usually the first few eggs from a new layer are infertile. Our rooster is quite the gentleman though.

 

[Kiki]

Any chance the infertile was a new layer? Does it work with quail like it does chickens? Usually the first few eggs from a new layer are infertile. Our rooster is quite the gentleman though.

They are all new layers.
The first 4 eggs I got the first two days...2 of the 4 were fertile.
I am still getting just two eggs a day except for two days when I got 3 eggs those two days.

 

[vixie-daisy]

Wish me luck, guys, I expected today would be hatch day for my buttons but it has been a disaster so far
The power went out here for a bit over an hour. It is cold where I'm at and the temps in my bator rapidly dropped. In my desperate attempts to keep the eggs from freezing, they rolled around in the bator some because I had no choice but to move it, and then I had to open the lid when the temp went way too high on rebound. There was definitely at least one pipped egg with a chick audibly chirping and pecking at the shell, and I'm really fearing shrinkwrapping right now for that one and any others that may have pipped... as well as consequences from the major temperature fluctuations.

 

[Kiki]

Wish me luck, guys, I expected today would be hatch day for my buttons but it has been a disaster so far
The power went out here for a bit over an hour. It is cold where I'm at and the temps in my bator rapidly dropped. In my desperate attempts to keep the eggs from freezing, they rolled around in the bator some because I had no choice but to move it, and then I had to open the lid when the temp went way too high on rebound. There was definitely at least one pipped egg with a chick audibly chirping and pecking at the shell, and I'm really fearing shrinkwrapping right now for that one and any others that may have pipped... as well as consequences from the major temperature fluctuations.

. Good luck!