➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Tayter93]

It gets easier/better...I promise.
My first hatch I don't think I slept for days. I remember feeling like a zombie there for a few days.

That's how I'm feeling now!! I do have another pipping! I hope I didn't mess it up candling last night!! Ugh! I'm not sure if it just started or of it's been pipping and I just didn't see it!

 

[BullChick]

I know my babies will hatch soon. I’m guessing tomorrow evening, into Wednesday morning. It’s hard having someone else doing this for me, but at least I’m not hovering over the incubator. Or watching the video monitor.

 

[Crazydoglady99]

Tried to take a photo of curly feet. They are walking on the ankles airy feet curled inwards. Hard to see, and a bad fuzzy pic. Only the tuxedos that have these wacky feet (so I am going to assume genetic or nutritional problem)

I will give them another day or so before culling.. but I doubt anything miraculous will suddenly fix them
(I think it's easier to cull them now when they are so teeny tiny)

 

[Crazydoglady99]

Lots of popcorn on the way for you guys

I shall be here, stalking, waiting for pics..

 

[CoturnixComplex]

@Tayter93 I am sure they will be okay! As long as you have babies still pipping just try and sit back and let them do their thing!

@BullChick mine should start popping out around the same time as yours. I was not really expecting them to start going until Wednesday but I just peeked a look at one and it looks like the air cell is drawing down so maybe babies are in my future tomorrow instead I didn't pull all the duds I thought I saw last time so there could be anywhere from 25 to 33 viable ones going still. My ten day olds are looking GREAT, 23/25 veiny and active.

 

[Tayter93]

@CoturnixComplex I sure hope so! I'm trying to stay away and let them do their thing! Lol it's tough!

 

[dpenning]

curled toes are easy to fix, just put a bandaid on their feet like little shoes Cut the bandaid so you are using one flap and the little padded part and sandwich the toes straightened out. Only takes a day. They will kick them off and be fine.

 

[RUNuts]

curled toes are easy to fix, just put a bandaid on their feet like little shoes Cut the bandaid so you are using one flap and the little padded part and sandwich the toes straightened out. Only takes a day. They will kick them off and be fine.

Yep. Worked for mine too. I used masking tape for 2 days though.

 

[RUNuts]

Lockdown!!
Candled all 27 & a couple have huge air cells. Draw down has begun on a couple. A couple others have tiny air cell by comparison. Did not see any internal pips. Expecting & hoping for 90%. 24.3 hatchlings are a few days away.

Incubator full of water & temp climbing back up.

 

[cosmosue]

It gets easier/better...I promise.
My first hatch I don't think I slept for days. I remember feeling like a zombie there for a few days.

LOL ME TOO!!! In fact I STILL sleep on my office floor on hatch nights LOL!! I had 9 in the brooder the other night and a few eggs still in the incubator and I slept on the floor on a pillow bed listening to peeps all night lol. I get up and check on them the first night to make sure they are ok and have water in their little bottle caps. At 6am I had 6 more going nuts in the incubator - I shined the light down and they all ran to the light and looked up at me yelling their little fuzzy heads off like GET US OUT NOW!

I went back to sleep for a bit and told them to dry off a bit more... lol by 9am there was 7 so I moved them, the last 4 were quitters.

On Sunday I took a quick nap and told my husband “I just had 16 babies I need a rest!!”