➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CoturnixComplex]

Awwww gorgeous!

Oh I just love these colors.

Thank you!! I don't even know what half of the colors are or how they possibly could have come from my birds :S Yay genetics!

Babies are on an adventure today. They are packed for travel, including the LAST late little pipping egg in my tiny incubator. We are driving five hours to visit my family. No unattended heat lamps at house! They are being so good!

 

[CoturnixComplex]

60 quail hatched so far.... and lots to go!

Pics, pics!!!

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I think I am up to 21 now?! I lost count at 18 but there are only three eggs left...

 

[R2elk]

I think I am up to 21 now?! I lost count at 18 but there are only three eggs left...

I almost always get my final count from unhatched eggs subtracted from set eggs.

 

[H@tcher]

Hearts are delicious especially if you pickle them.

I keep the hearts out of all my game and livestock. Sometime, depending on the mood and time, I keep the liver and kidneys. Rabbit liver is the best liver you can eat.

 

[BullChick]

One -week-old, and I’m changing the brooder for the second time in three days. I think I need to add the second floor so it’s at least spread out (and I know that it’s not just wet feed I’m seeing).
They are definitely bigger, and I can finally see it. No pictures because Kiki will die from seeing the dirty bedding.

 

[Crazydoglady99]

I'm going to try that grippy mat in my bator. I have been using paper towel, but it does interrupt the humidity a bit.
And soluble vitamins in the water for the freshly hatched I think.

Y'all are teaching me stuff!!

 

[Kiki]

I'm going to try that grippy mat in my bator. I have been using paper towel, but it does interrupt the humidity a bit.
And soluble vitamins in the water for the freshly hatched I think.

Y'all are teaching me stuff!!

I put the grippy mat in at lockdown, when I take my turners out.

 

[CayugaJana]

Have you guys had a chick that couldn’t walk at hatch? I have one that just looks like it is riding a bicycle in the air and can’t get its feet under itself. I had one last hatch do that too. And it ended up dying. I also have one that looks like one leg is turned waaaay inside and it’s having trouble walking. What is it that I’m doing wrong?

 

[Kullas]

Not every chick that hatches is going to be viable sometimes you have to cull and sometimes cull hard to keep the brood stock in top notch condition to help make the breed better. Probably nothing you are doing.