➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[room onthebroom]

it’s been a long, rough, and very emotionally draining day!! toe traps set at outside corners of the fence, live traps on shed roof. electric fence run full perimeter of both chicken run and aviary. I attempted sewing of all the holes in the netting but black thread on black netting above your head in the dark is not fun!! hopefully i will be able to finish it first light tomorrow without anyone getting out and no one getting in! I even spent about 15 minutes in other neighbors backyard hoping to find button with no luck. they have lots of stuff over there that he could hide under to avoid predators so slim chance but maybe he survived and will find his way back home. maybe we can get some of the stuff actually on our “to do” list done tomorrow

 

[muddy75]

first button hatched!! time to juggle brooders!
all is quiet in the yard......no traps tripped and no deaths

 

[007Sean]

I think it jus needs to finish fluffing @BReeder! Looks like the fluff just dried in clumps or laid down, you might be able to free it up w an old toothbrush

I agree with @mixedUPturk, looks like maybe the albumen dried on it?

 

[sarabeth485]

Did my day 10 candle last night and looks like 18 of 20 are doing well. One was an early quitter but I think it may have been a double yolk so not surprising. I think the other one was a slightly later quitter.

 

[Kiki]

I'm fixing to move my babies out. I'm double checking to make sure they cannot get stuck in the wire flooring.

I somehow ran out of my stash of cardboard boxes to collect the poop so I'm using these aluminum foil things for now.

 

[Kiki]

I'm fixing to move my babies out. I'm double checking to make sure they cannot get stuck in the wire flooring.View attachment 1873998 View attachment 1873999
I somehow ran out of my stash of cardboard boxes to collect the poop so I'm using these aluminum foil things for now.

But they won't actually be collecting any poop for another week or so.

 

[Kiki]

 

[el dorado quail]

Anyone have any suggestions for legbands? I want to be able to tell celadon hatched babies from the other turds. I was thinking tiny zipties but if there are better options..

 

[RUNuts]

Anyone have any suggestions for legbands? I want to be able to tell celadon hatched babies from the other turds. I was thinking tiny zipties but if there are better options..

Paint their toenails something other than red. Take a video. I wanna see it.

 

[sarabeth485]

Anyone have any suggestions for legbands? I want to be able to tell celadon hatched babies from the other turds. I was thinking tiny zipties but if there are better options..

I just used zip ties. Little bit of a learning curve for sizing though and some of them fell off. Some are still on almost a year later though. Need to be tight enough that when they do the pointed toe backward stretch it doesn’t slide off.