➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Crazydoglady99]

Oh muddy

 

[Kiki]

Where did my quote go?
@Kullas on the 4th

 

[Kullas]

How many eggs? (Cant remember)
You might get a few more hatch

Wife just sent me a pic of another that just hatched. She said it was acting funny. They are way late hatching I suspect there will be more problems with any more that hatch.
Started with 30, 16 were infertile or jostled in shipping and so far 5 out of the shell.

 

[BullChick]

Just candled buttons again.....none of the air cells look good but there was clear movement in at least 1 of the remaining 8! the air cell is around the fat end but curves up to top of small end and back down on the side opposite the embryo. my guess is that the air cells got disrupted in shipping?? Is there anything I can do at this point to improve the odds or do I just stick with crossing my fingers and waiting it out (and never again order from ebay!)

Saddle cell? I believe the only thing you need to do is not turn for the first two days (too late), and keep it horizontal the whole time.
Check the first page of Sally Sunshine’s notes in
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-sunshine-hosts-bantychooks-and-more.1137467/

 

[igorsMistress]

Well I'm up to 4. One more just popped out

 

[Shortchick]

Sorry about the frustrations today :-/

Today’s update: I was totally not going to candle for at least a couple of days... but I gave in peeked at one again a little while ago. The veins have gotten bold and bright! I should have done it with the kids watching because it’s so easy to see things inside now.
We’ll see how well I behave tomorrow. I’ll prolly peek at one again.

 

[muddy75]

Saddle cell? I believe the only thing you need to do is not turn for the first two days (too late), and keep it horizontal the whole time.
Check the first page of Sally Sunshine’s notes in
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-sunshine-hosts-bantychooks-and-more.1137467/

They have been horizontal the whole time but were in the auto-turner for the first few days until I scooted them out to set the pearls. have had them at the end of the turner and been hand turning 2x daily since. I read through the notes a bit and plan to read it more thoroughly later. (i believe i ran across that thread when i first started hatching). this is the batch that I didn’t have clear shipping info so they arrived at the office on Saturday. They redelivered on Monday but because pkg was small he slid it in the mailbox!! so not really sure how much the little guys got jostled around in shipping!

 

[CayugaJana]

On a similar note. The first time I ever had Button quail, I didn't know what kind of call or noises to expect, I was awaken by a horrible hissing sound one night, I thought there was a monster from a B- horror movie loose in my house. First time you hear it, it will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck!

Nope nope nope...... I can’t do hissing in the dark. I’d be yelling for the hubs or 12 year old.

 

[007Sean]

Nope nope nope...... I can’t do hissing in the dark. I’d be yelling for the hubs or 12 year old.

oh but you will....they are so cute until they hiss at 3:00am I'm serious, I freaked out...grabbed my pistol off the night stand and went looking for what the heck was in the house.

 

[CayugaJana]

oh but you will....they are so cute until they hiss at 3:00am I'm serious, I freaked out...grabbed my pistol off the night stand and went looking for what the heck was in the house.

I can just imagine..... it’d make your heart skip a beat.