➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CoturnixComplex]

No.

The anticipation is way, WAY worse than doing it. I laugh/cried from relief afterwards.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

(and a little adrenaline drop)

 

[TheLaboratoryBF]

Today is day 5 for my batch of 24...just candled each one and only 3 are clear. Going to leave them in until day 10 or later to see if they might be late developers. Since this is my first hatch, is it normal for some eggs to have more dark mass inside than others (I see development in both types but, for example, one may appear to have 60% darkness inside where another may only appear to be 30%)?

 

[BantyChooks]

The anticipation is way, WAY worse than doing it.

x2

 

[BantyChooks]

See, mine have been kind of trained to be burrito-wrapped for foot checks so they're pretty chill as long as they can't flap. Then, after I did it I dropped them in the bucket and they had free reign to twitch

I rarely pick mine up. They're SO hard to hold onto! Like escape-motivated bouncy balls. They've got no edges.

 

[007Sean]

No.

Yeah, you do! Just stick their heads in the tail pipe on your car, CO does the trick pretty quick....just be sure your doing this outside and not on a closed garage. I did this one time to a peacock, I was going to mount it and didn't want any unnecessary cuts or feathers pulled out, or messed up. Plus ether works too and is quicker but it gets absorbed into the tissues and makes them unfit to eat.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I rarely pick mine up. They're SO hard to hold onto! Like escape-motivated bouncy balls. They've got no edges.

I did that for ONE week and that was the week I got bumblefoot. Now they are off wire so I can be a little lazier but I still check them all a minimum of once a week and usually twice a week when I clean out their cages fully.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I think I am about to confirm the silver (light feet/beak)= male, blue (dark feet/beak) = female theory, although I would love a show of hands by anyone for whom this has *not* held true (I'll make a thread on this and a few other genetics mysteries at some point too so more people see).

 

[Kiki]

I think I am about to confirm the silver (light feet/beak)= male, blue (dark feet/beak) = female theory, although I would love a show of hands by anyone for whom this has *not* held true (I'll make a thread on this and a few other genetics mysteries at some point too so more people see).

 

[Crazydoglady99]

X2