➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[ShrekDawg]

You didnt run me off i was scrubbing waterers while its a cool 85* waiting on the childrens bedtime and then ima take a dip in the pool as my reward for busting my butt today. Its been a tough one for me but i got everything i wanted done.

Aw sorry to hear that! Hope tomorrow is better!

 

[RUNuts]

only thing more frustrating than dropping eggs @lockdown is candling a bunch of “clears” and realizing your male is not doing his job!! in the words of my youngest son (@ thanksgiving) “wrong bird died”

Wrong bird died, so right! And I didn't keep a spare. Good news though, jumbos are 4 weeks away. I'm picking quail breeders at 4 weeks and getting them settled. I'll be selecting for size. At 4 weeks, this is also fast growth. Health. I'm checking joints for any other issues and belly blisters. A couple have their chest feathers thinned, but no blisters. What else do I need to look at?

I thought heritage chicken chicks would be easier than CX for meat. I'm having second thoughts. Full steam ahead! Very interesting experience.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Aw sorry to hear that! Hope tomorrow is better!

Thanks but no worries just tryn to help someone else my household is on point

My buttons lockdown on Sunday

 

[muddy75]

Thanks but no worries just tryn to help someone else my household is on point

My buttons lockdown on Sunday

If my household is ever on point and weather is perfect.....then y'all better be worried!!!! Excited for buttons!!!! Lots of pics!!!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Thanks but no worries just tryn to help someone else my household is on point

My buttons lockdown on Sunday

Oh well that’s good then!!

And yayyy!! How exciting!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

If my household is ever on point and weather is perfect.....then y'all better be worried!!!! Excited for buttons!!!! Lots of pics!!!!

 

[el dorado quail]

Hi quail peeps! I have been gone so long! I have badge-earners to belatedly congratulate, congratulations to belatedly thank, and a ton to catch up on.

I am just popping in real quick to say I'm mid-hatch with @el dorado quail 's babies and while this has been a PAINFUL hatch I do still have cute babies popping.

Stats:

My eggs 17 put in, cracked two developing on each other badly and pulled them early, cracked two on each other AGAIN later (I'm glad it was my eggs! I always candled them last and apparently lack wrist stamina...),l left them in, 10 looked probably-good at lockdown, 6 have hatched so far, there's at least one more pipped, all fat problem-free babies. I think it's going to end up at 8 or 9/15 which is not amazing but my older trio has apparently started to dip in fertility.

Extra research eggs 7 out of 20 looked good at lockdown, I miscounted by one initially (meh, okay, can live with), 60/40 clears and early quitters, 4 have hatched but one has splayed leg I'm trying to correct.

Celadon eggs maybe 15 of 100 looked good at lockdown?! Maaaaaybe. I was generous out of desperation. 5 hatched so far, two more pipped, 1 splayed leg case and 1 with toes that don't want to uncurl. GAHHHHH.

Very small difference in hatch rate across incubator top and bottom so at least my jacket worked.

I HATE SHIPPED EGGS OMG. I don't think it was my fault considering the wildly varying hatch rates across egg types but I still feel bad and I am bummed because I wanted some. There are so few I am going to take an adult male instead of any chicks and breed him to my het celadon female from a different source. They breed so fast it won't be that long before I have some blue layers too.

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Yeahhhh just based on numbers it's the eggs not your incubator

Oh my.

It's realllllyyyy disappointing

You said hes gonna send u more right? Maybe tell him wait til later when it cools down a bitand hes recovered feom the storm?

I'll let him know the results and he can decide when to send.

They DID come from JMF, sorry! I was confused also about what you were asking.

My homebred ones are fat and problem free (did I say fee?!).

The celadon ones are having a really low hatch rate, and a lot of the ones that have hatched are smaller/having more problems than either the extra "research" eggs sent in the same box or my homebred ones I stuck in there alongside them.

@mixedUPturk I do think that is the plan although I am letting @el dorado quail handle the logistics as:

I will be at burning man @Nabiki ! This will be my fourth. We take a big coffee and tea camp. I will definitely do that although only ever see a tiny tiny fraction of everything going on.

My cousin bought a sketchy rv for burning man a couple years ago. She had it ghetto painted with an UGLYYY unicorn and rainbows

 

[sarabeth485]

Okay. So checked on the flock this morning and two more fatalities. Both 8 week males. One appeared “normal” the other had a little poop on his vent feathers and tiny whitish wormy things.

Temps have been high for a while (90s - 100) with super high humidity too. I’ve been giving them ice water once a day. Could it just be the heat? Did the worms come after death or could they be an infestation of some kind?

Butcher day was supposed to be tomorrow. Is it still safe to do it?

This farming thing is getting complicated.

As always thanks for everyone’s awesome help!

 

[Kiki]

Okay. So checked on the flock this morning and two more fatalities. Both 8 week males. One appeared “normal” the other had a little poop on his vent feathers and tiny whitish wormy things.

Temps have been high for a while (90s - 100) with super high humidity too. I’ve been giving them ice water once a day. Could it just be the heat? Did the worms come after death or could they be an infestation of some kind?

Butcher day was supposed to be tomorrow. Is it still safe to do it?

This farming thing is getting complicated.

As always thanks for everyone’s awesome help!

Shoot..sorry for your loss.


Can you get pictures of the worms?
Might be maggots.

 

[mixedUPturk]

Shoot..sorry for your loss.


Can you get pictures of the worms?
Might be maggots.

Exactly what i was thinking and then, are they from before or after? Fly strike or death... are the house type flies bad Ms sarabeth?