➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[dpenning]

Yes they are alive and thriving! Energetic little boogers! Lol. See this is why I shouldn't Google! Lol I read they can stay in the incubator for up to 48 hours.. while the others are hatching! If I had known to get them out sooner I would have.. ugh. Well now I know. This is all new to me! So grateful for this place!! So once they are dry and fluffy I'm safe to get them out quickly?

Chickens you can leave up to 48 hours, but I don't. I remove quail as soon as they are dry and fluffy. They are so tiny they need food and water before 48 hours IMO. Actually I remove my chicks as soon as they are fluffy too. Just make sure you have the water channels full so the humidity goes back up.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Boys or girls? (Sorry for the terrible pics!)View attachment 1669715 View attachment 1669716

That looks like a female (top) and male (bottom) to me but it might take a few more days to be certain.

They have to stay with momma till 6 weeks, then will be weaned. I'm not sure they are going to get big, momma Pepper doesn't look big but I honestly haven't weighed her. I'm due to weigh the little buns, going to try to do so weekly.

They'll probably be even smaller than momma, but that's okay, they are adorable and I love those chinchilla coats. Keep giving us pics!!

I am on the wait list for a registered giant chinchilla from a local breeder, but am also looking at a real nice black new Zealand for nearby that just had kits. I love the looks of the Flemish but they are inefficient buggers by comparison to both. I think your cross is perfect, hopefully you get a better meat:bone ratio than purebreds. Are you keeping a son to breed back to her?

I think I'm arranging a stud service with another different local breeder when I get a doe. No spraying boys for me

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Chickens you can leave up to 48 hours, but I don't. I remove quail as soon as they are dry and fluffy. They are so tiny they need food and water before 48 hours IMO. Actually I remove my chicks as soon as they are fluffy too. Just make sure you have the water channels full so the humidity goes back up.

I have read even up to 72 hours! I have never had the patience and they do seem to want to eat real quick when they pop out.

 

[Kiki]

I'm dead.
Look at this BLACK baby.
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[CoturnixComplex]

I'm dead.
Look at this BLACK baby.
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I'm almost 100% positive he's a Tibetan, they look black as babies and then turn red later. CUTIE though. I've also had black-looking chicks turn out blue and charcoal.

 

[cosmosue]

I'm dead.
Look at this BLACK baby.
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I felt my ears tingling haha!! So glad he’s a star! I love them! I love them ALL!

Earlier I said to my husband “I’m going to go sit with my people”

I gotta admit I’m a bit weird - I’ve sung to them and I’ve read Stephen King to them... I think they enjoyed passages from “IT” but that was a different bunch... I sang to one of the little panda ones earlier some soft song and he fell asleep in my hand

 

[cosmosue]

I'm almost 100% positive he's a Tibetan, they look black as babies and then turn red later. CUTIE though. I've also had black-looking chicks turn out blue and charcoal.

I think so! Can’t wait to watch them grow BUT I will sure miss this stage - they are hilarious when hopping around in there stepping on each other’s heads... “oh you were sleepin’!? Now you are not! Let me eat your toe!”

They fall asleep in the food bowl as if to say... “when I wake up... I’m gonna be right here to pig out...ahhh” then someone steps on their head again

I could spend so much time staring and watching the antics... lol then I go out to see the adults and tell them how pretty they are lol I still refer to my breeding stock as “my babies” lolololol

I think my 3 crabby hens think I’ve lost my mind - but I lost that ages ago.

 

[cosmosue]

Chickens you can leave up to 48 hours, but I don't. I remove quail as soon as they are dry and fluffy. They are so tiny they need food and water before 48 hours IMO. Actually I remove my chicks as soon as they are fluffy too. Just make sure you have the water channels full so the humidity goes back up.

I do the same thing. When there is a break in hatching and the kids are fluffed a bit, I go in quick like ninja grab them and put them in the warm brooder and they do the squat waddle while checking things out and searching for specs to eat lol! I don’t hatch chickens because I can’t have any roosters here and I’m afraid I won’t be able to find them homes or something so I only hatch quails cause I can keep the roos, they don’t annoy neighbors lol.

I wish there was a way to get only female eggs for chickens - I suppose that is wishful thinking eh? Lol. Have we come that far yet? Lol!

 

[WVduckchick]

I do the same thing. When there is a break in hatching and the kids are fluffed a bit, I go in quick like ninja grab them and put them in the warm brooder and they do the squat waddle while checking things out and searching for specs to eat lol! I don’t hatch chickens because I can’t have any roosters here and I’m afraid I won’t be able to find them homes or something so I only hatch quails cause I can keep the roos, they don’t annoy neighbors lol.

I wish there was a way to get only female eggs for chickens - I suppose that is wishful thinking eh? Lol. Have we come that far yet? Lol!

I was browsing YouTube and watched a video of a gal doing the string and needle old wives tale to guess the gender of eggs. She admitted that it was a tale, but she was certainly hopeful it would work. I think I’ll try it with my next batch of cream legbars, since they are auto sexing at hatch. Just to prove it impossible. Lol

You could always get an auto sexing breed and cull/sell/give away roosters before they crow.

 

[cosmosue]

I was browsing YouTube and watched a video of a gal doing the string and needle old wives tale to guess the gender of eggs. She admitted that it was a tale, but she was certainly hopeful it would work. I think I’ll try it with my next batch of cream legbars, since they are auto sexing at hatch. Just to prove it impossible. Lol

You could always get an auto sexing breed and cull/sell/give away roosters before they crow.

I’m thinking bout it lol!