➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CoturnixComplex]

thanks for the correction!! i know better

You're fine, there are a LOT of colors

I think there are two different genes people claim are roux dilute. One is like an orange but sex-linked. One is just a slightly paler pharoah. I have both now So that makes it extra confusing.

I think the pale pharoah types are actually a light down dilute or something and get mislabeled.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Ok, so, going off my smaller @ 2 weeks tend to be male theory, ALL five of my italian-types were going to turn out boys. I was like nah, must be wrong.

They're all boys. >.>

 

[Crazydoglady99]

Noooooooooooo

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Noooooooooooo

I wasn't keeping any anyways, but there were supposed to be some girls in there for my trade! I am going to have to start giving up hens I wanted to keep potentially.

At least @Sara L REALLY gets her pick of the brood now.

 

[muddy75]

ok these guys must be coordinating!!! i’ve got at least a dozen pips!! nobody wants to come out to play before bedtime!!!......sorry about all the boys CC! Guess you’ll just have to hatch more!! heeheehee!

 

[TheLaboratoryBF]

Sitting on the floor in my office (where my incubator is) after setting up the brooder, mindlessly perusing social media, when I HEARD THE CHICKS CHEEPING THROUGH THEIR SHELLS! We’re coming to the end of day 16 and I haven’t candled since day 10 so I’m glad at least one is still going strong! Such a sweet sound; I’m hoping it won’t be too much longer now...I’m like an anxious expectant mother!

 

[Crazydoglady99]

Wooohooooo pips!!! And chirps!!!

 

[CayugaJana]

I wish I would have watched this video before my quail hatched. I’ve had quail die from all of these reasons. The only one I haven’t figured out was the cold water no no. I thought they were splashing and getting each other wet, getting cold, then piling up and smothering each other. It didn’t don on me that the water itself was too cold.

 

[TheLaboratoryBF]

Sitting on the floor in my office (where my incubator is) after setting up the brooder, mindlessly perusing social media, when I HEARD THE CHICKS CHEEPING THROUGH THEIR SHELLS! We’re coming to the end of day 16 and I haven’t candled since day 10 so I’m glad at least one is still going strong! Such a sweet sound; I’m hoping it won’t be too much longer now...I’m like an anxious expectant mother!

And the first pip (that I can see) JUST happened! Guess I won’t be sleeping tonight...hopefully my face pressed up against the plastic incubator window doesn’t traumatize the hatchlings.

 

[Crazydoglady99]

That's a great video! Thanks for sharing

10 chicks at a time is my happy number, more than that I find it hard to keep track of them all!