➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kelsykin]

How does everyone feel about keeping half-lame quail still eating, moving, and enjoying life until the 6 week mark? I have two with one weird foot each I can't correct and one with stubby wings I'm considering doing that with. It doesn't really feel worse than putting them down and they're exceptionally healthy aside from the minor defects. I've had my share of VERY deformed baby quail but none in the middle like this before.

This is just my opinion and you can take it or leave it as you see fit. If the animal can eat, drink, move around and is not showing signs of pain I usually will let nature take its course. As long as you are not planning to breed them I would not worry about putting them down. I would wait and make the animal into meat, but that is me and not everybody lives as I do.

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I just set 2 dozen pharaoh coturnix eggs this evening (6pm pacific time) and am trying to figure out if today is day zero or day one?

It would be day zero. I use a program to track but always punch in 24 hours after I actually set the eggs as the program counts the set day as day 1. Which makes all the calculations 1 day early.

 

[CayugaJana]

Do your incubators smells horrendous after your chicks are done hatching? I keep mine in my closet since it’s the only room without any air vents. And my room stinks like poo before all of them hatch.

 

[RUNuts]

Y'all warned me that these guys have a suicide pact. They were huddled last night and all made the night. Then this morning, they decided to play clown car with the feeder that they could barely fit in. Well they fit.

Kiki - you keeping track of successfully hatched or live? Live is 13 with batch #2.

I am consternated by this event. Homemade food dispenser to be trashed. Going back to the store bought one.

 

[BantyChooks]

Y'all warned me that these guys have a suicide pact. They were huddled last night and all made the night. Then this morning, they decided to play clown car with the feeder that they could barely fit in. Well they fit.

Kiki - you keeping track of successfully hatched or live? Live is 13 with batch #2.

I am consternated by this event. Homemade food dispenser to be trashed. Going back to the store bought one.

That stinks. How old? I generally sprinkle food on the ground or in trays until they're mostly feathered.

 

[RUNuts]

That stinks. How old? I generally sprinkle food on the ground or in trays until they're mostly feathered.

Just made 1 week old.

 

[CayugaJana]

@007Sean if Bobwhites have been in an ideal growing environment from hatch, when do they start laying eggs? And when is it a good idea to start collecting them for hatching? I specifically bought Wisconsin Giant Bobwhites.

 

[CayugaJana]

@CoturnixComplex have you tried ordering direct from the manufacturer? I was looking for a floating duck food and found some on amazon but only 5lb bags. Googled the manufacturer and was able to order 50 lb bags from the manufacturer.

Well isn’t that neat! Do you have to meet a minimum?

Y'all warned me that these guys have a suicide pact. They were huddled last night and all made the night. Then this morning, they decided to play clown car with the feeder that they could barely fit in. Well they fit.

Kiki - you keeping track of successfully hatched or live? Live is 13 with batch #2.

I am consternated by this event. Homemade food dispenser to be trashed. Going back to the store bought one.

I had one die in a country crock lid of water the other day......

 

[CayugaJana]

I currently have my baby quail in the basement and I’ve found it’s a lot easier to feed and water them if I only keep the heat lamps on and no other lights. If I turn on the lights in the basement they flip their lids when I reach my hand down in the brooder. Is it ok to just have the light from the heat lamp? It’s the red light.

 

[Kiki]

Do your incubators smells horrendous after your chicks are done hatching? I keep mine in my closet since it’s the only room without any air vents. And my room stinks like poo before all of them hatch.

No. No smell here.

 

[Kiki]

@007Sean if Bobwhites have been in an ideal growing environment from hatch, when do they start laying eggs? And when is it a good idea to start collecting them for hatching? I specifically bought Wisconsin Giant Bobwhites.

I'd say a good time to start collecting them to hatch is one month after they start laying.
At least one month