➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Shortchick]

This is the most recent pic without much poop. They sure mess up the brooder faster than the 1-3 I had before!

So my (almost) final count: 16 babies in the brooder (number of the day I guess, lol) and one still in the incubator that I don’t think will make it.
2 died after pipping. Most of the rest seem to have quit just before absorbing the yolk.
So 16 out of the 28 I started. Not what I’d hoped of course, but much better than last time! Wish I knew exactly what happened with the 9.

I’m such a worry wort. When I was a kid I thought I’d outgrow it. When that didn’t work, I assumed I’d calm down after being a mom for a few years. Alas. Then I realized that when my husband expressed his lack of worry, intending to console my excessive worry, I often felt really frustrated instead of comforted... ‘How dare he not care!’ Wait...Oh no. I think worrying must be my “love language”

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I think I totally missed a few posts.

Yes, feel bad, cuz it's not like you have an actual life or anything.

 

[Kiki]

View attachment 1736448 This is the most recent pic without much poop. They sure mess up the brooder faster than the 1-3 I had before!

So my (almost) final count: 16 babies in the brooder (number of the day I guess, lol) and one still in the incubator that I don’t think will make it.
2 died after pipping. Most of the rest seem to have quit just before absorbing the yolk.
So 16 out of the 28 I started. Not what I’d hoped of course, but much better than last time! Wish I knew exactly what happened with the 9.

I’m such a worry wort. When I was a kid I thought I’d outgrow it. When that didn’t work, I assumed I’d calm down after being a mom for a few years. Alas. Then I realized that when my husband expressed his lack of worry, intending to console my excessive worry, I often felt really frustrated instead of comforted... ‘How dare he not care!’ Wait...Oh no. I think worrying must be my “love language”

What date would you like to count this hatch on?

 

[Kiki]

Yes, feel bad, cuz it's not like you have an actual life or anything.

 

[Kiki]

View attachment 1736448 This is the most recent pic without much poop. They sure mess up the brooder faster than the 1-3 I had before!

So my (almost) final count: 16 babies in the brooder (number of the day I guess, lol) and one still in the incubator that I don’t think will make it.
2 died after pipping. Most of the rest seem to have quit just before absorbing the yolk.
So 16 out of the 28 I started. Not what I’d hoped of course, but much better than last time! Wish I knew exactly what happened with the 9.

I’m such a worry wort. When I was a kid I thought I’d outgrow it. When that didn’t work, I assumed I’d calm down after being a mom for a few years. Alas. Then I realized that when my husband expressed his lack of worry, intending to console my excessive worry, I often felt really frustrated instead of comforted... ‘How dare he not care!’ Wait...Oh no. I think worrying must be my “love language”

Do you think you have enough marbles in the waterer?

Are you sure the dummies can reach water to drink?

 

[CoturnixComplex]

That is a lot of marbles. I lost mine a while ago, and now I know @Shortchick has them.

 

[Kiki]

That is a lot of marbles. I lost mine a while ago, and now I know @Shortchick has them.

I think she has mine too.

 

[Kiki]

I can not stop giggling at the marbles.
For some reason I find that picture hilarious.

 

[Kiki]

@Shortchick get back here!
I promise I am not being mean.

 

[Shortchick]

Lol!! No worries! I got sidetracked.

I actually stole those marbles from the kids’ failed sea monkeys tank. (The box didn’t say you need the water to be 80° for them to hatch )
But THEY stole the marbles from the game shelf. By the end of the year, those marbles will have been used for just about everything EXCEPT for a marbles game.