➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[muddy75]

Oooooooohhhhhhh I may need to order some!! I need quail!! Lol

they typically ship within 1-2 days of order...(depending on size of order) shipping to you should take 2-3 days. so if you wait to order until end of week....should ship on monday and reach you by wednesday or thursday next week.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Set the tiny ones. Quail eggs are small anyways.

Probably the new chicks causing them to not lay as often, ours are finicky like that too.

Okay!! Thanks!! I’ll do that. How many? Planning on weighing them and setting the smallest ones lol although maybe I should weigh them anyway? To keep track of weight changes??

And thanks!! Yeah, that’s probably it. Just a little disappointing as I NEED a more eggs like... NOW. LOL we were getting like 5 a day!! And when I first put them out there they didn’t seem to care or slow down at all but now they seem to have. Maybe it takes a few days or weeks for the stress to hit them?? They’ve been out there a week today. Maybe the fox that was hanging around and the weather could affect it too???

they typically ship within 1-2 days of order...(depending on size of order) shipping to you should take 2-3 days. so if you wait to order until end of week....should ship on monday and reach you by wednesday or thursday next week.

Thanks!! That makes sense!! I didn’t think about ordering later in the week lol well, I did, but I figured they would get stuck in the PO over the weekend???

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Okay!! Thanks!! I’ll do that. How many? Planning on weighing them and setting the smallest ones lol although maybe I should weigh them anyway? To keep track of weight changes??

And thanks!! Yeah, that’s probably it. Just a little disappointing as I NEED a more eggs like... NOW. LOL we were getting like 5 a day!! And when I first put them out there they didn’t seem to care or slow down at all but now they seem to have. Maybe it takes a few days or weeks for the stress to hit them?? They’ve been out there a week today. Maybe the fox that was hanging around and the weather could affect it too???



Thanks!! That makes sense!! I didn’t think about ordering later in the week lol well, I did, but I figured they would get stuck in the PO over the weekend???

"How many?"
However many you want to set in terms of how many quail eggs you are planning on setting. The closer the better to your future hatching plans.

"..should weigh them anyway? To keep track of weight changes??"
Yes you should! It's a good way to properly gauge how much water loss the eggs are receiving, which will help you see where you need to have your humidity at instead of guesstimating. (I don't do this personally because I don't have a scale)

As far as your hens, it's probably just everything overloading them. They are on the older side of hatchery hens anyways so it doesn't take much to get them to stop laying.

 

[muddy75]

@muddy75
Can you get some Corid?

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• Kiki
• Mar 22, 2018

Corid

I'm wondering if they could possibly have coccidiosis.

Have you measured under your heat lamp?

i went ahead and picked up some medicated starter to mix with game feed....rural king doesn’t carry crap!! the remaining 7 are looking good today so i’m hopeful that the grim reaper has left!! of course it’s all a guessing game, but i’m thinking that it was multi-factor. this shipment obviously came from early eggs in hatchery stock, they had access to bad stuff they could eat but not digest properly, temps were abnormally cold over the weekend, and today i saw a runny brown poop! hopefully I’ve corrected most of the possible factors and all remaining will thrive now!!! i moved the 3 week olds out this morning (quail and twin quickens) there was a bit of pecking at the twins more than the babies at first but all seem to be integrating well. now i can clean the hutch brooder and start juggling chicks again! I moved 16 more fluffies from incubator to brooder this morning and i still have 4 more + 1 hatching. (total 37 hatch so far +/-) with only the 1 loss to “suicide”. i also cracked a few “homegrown” today and had 50% fertility so I gave each of the broody silkies 4 eggs to sit on. 3 of the 5 cracked went on my burger tonight! 1 was damaged and pooed on and one was a fairy egg.

 

[muddy75]

if any questions or concerns regarding shipping, you can contact zack directly via phone or facebook. i have always had best luck reaching him via facebook messenger. I know @CayugaJana has contacted him directly as well. if you do contact him....definitely let him know that you are member of our group here! I’ve been a pretty steady customer since december so he knows me well!!

 

[Kiki]

But the thing about my hens eggs makes sense. Although I don’t get what I would see or learn? What would happen? Like what’s the goal of it? Do the air cells shrink??

The goal is to run the bator to test it out.
See what happens when you open it to candle a fake egg.

 

[Kiki]

i went ahead and picked up some medicated starter to mix with game feed....rural king doesn’t carry crap!! the remaining 7 are looking good today so i’m hopeful that the grim reaper has left!! of course it’s all a guessing game, but i’m thinking that it was multi-factor. this shipment obviously came from early eggs in hatchery stock, they had access to bad stuff they could eat but not digest properly, temps were abnormally cold over the weekend, and today i saw a runny brown poop! hopefully I’ve corrected most of the possible factors and all remaining will thrive now!!! i moved the 3 week olds out this morning (quail and twin quickens) there was a bit of pecking at the twins more than the babies at first but all seem to be integrating well. now i can clean the hutch brooder and start juggling chicks again! I moved 16 more fluffies from incubator to brooder this morning and i still have 4 more + 1 hatching. (total 37 hatch so far +/-) with only the 1 loss to “suicide”. i also cracked a few “homegrown” today and had 50% fertility so I gave each of the broody silkies 4 eggs to sit on. 3 of the 5 cracked went on my burger tonight! 1 was damaged and pooed on and one was a fairy egg.

Know that IF it is coccidiosis the medicated feed will do nothing to help.

 

[Kiki]

I have one egg starting to draw down!

 

[muddy75]

I forgot to upload my pic!! Yes it’s getting crowded in there and already time for a cleaning!! But they are just too cute especially the partridge using my rag blockade for a pillow!! I def know these guys have enough heat....indoors with heat pad and 60w light bulb. I’ve been surprised how good the partridge chicks have done with the quail. I was afraid they would crush them or bully them.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

I have one egg starting to draw down!
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I think I'm caught up after skimming, did you off all of your young ones?