➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

Thanks guys. I have a feeling the shipping really messes with them. And from going to 3300ft elevation after being brought into existence at 0 elevation? Might try myshire egg next purchased egg hatch.

@Texas Kiki I will call hatch tomorrow and post stars after I get home from 7 mile hike.

Last night when I candled all 30 of my eggs I noticed a lot of wonky air cells. I don't think ive seen this many in the same batch yet.

 

[Kiki]

I just discovered another chick who has a super swollen eye. He also has growth that seem to be a heart and maybe liver outside the rib cage. The eye was a little big when i took him out of the brooder but it seems to be getting worse...
Also found an egg that had pipped and got rolled over by babies and was dead by the time I found him. Must've happened this morning or maybe last night. He had a pretty large umbilical hernia.
Annnnddd there was a really, really runty chick with another umbilical hernia I took out of the shell last night but left in the incubator to dry. And it died too. Couldn't lift its head or move other than somehow rolling.

Is it my incubation or the genetics???

Are you positive that your temp has been steady, no spikes?
And are you positive the humidity was good?

 

[Kiki]

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[Kiki]

I made the mistake of replying to a post on the last page and now I've gotten myself lost.

 

[Kiki]

Hmm that’s a good idea! I didn’t think of that. I have tried steaming them before and it just ends up kinda mushy and flavorless. :/

I do like steamed broccoli though and I think I would like green beans steamed.

But like for instance, I like to slice up my summer squash and brown them in the pan. And when I have sweet potatoes I do that too. Although I do microwave those first because otherwise it takes forever to cook haha and another big one, probably the main one, is I usually grab a fist full of spinach or spinach and baby kale mix or whatever and toss it in a pan with some olive oil and sauté it until it it gets smaller/deep green/soft enough.

But I take it off before it gets brown or anything and it’s still bright green so maybe it still has some nutrients?

I have tried steaming kale before and it was pretty good so maybe I could do that more often.

But it’s just the sautéing is so fast and easy, especially when I scramble eggs or something, and I’ll just toss some more oil in the pan and sauté it in the same one after I cook the eggs and it’s ready fast and delicious.

So I like doing that. And I like the squash browned and it also gets really sweet that way where it doesn’t steamed. Idk.

Maybe I could mix it up though? Like sometimes sauté but sometimes also steam or something so I’m getting all the nutrients? Cause mostly I only really do the sautéing thing

But then again, I am not exactly the healthiest person anyway and frequently forget to eat and/or eat out sooo....

Trying to cook more though but I seem to only know how to do or at least only like sautéing

I know how to do the other stuff, I’m just so used to doing it that way.

But then again sautéing is probably the least of my worries when I frequently make “eggs in a basket” aka a piece of bread with a hole cut out the middle and a fried egg inside it. Which is totally not healthy considering it’s usually also butter soaked from toasting in the pan.

I really need to work on expanding my cooking skills/repertoire.

But in my mind that meal (or similar variation with scrambled eggs instead and no bread) is better than eating out or just eating toast or a muffin or snacking or something but maybe not.

Make this today.

 

[Nabiki]

Hmm that’s a good idea! I didn’t think of that. I have tried steaming them before and it just ends up kinda mushy and flavorless. :/

You're steaming them for too long. With a good steamer, for example, half a bunch of asparagus takes about 8-9 minutes. A steamer basket full of broccoli about 12-15 (depends on how full). Zucchini about 12 minutes.

 

[Kiki]

Alot. I have updated pics of my quail too.

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These two pics of silvers are the grow outs at 3 wks old.
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Wish i could keep them all like these. This tractor is working out real well for me. The dust baths do alot for keeping the wood in the cages clean though and then they dont have to spend all their time on wire. It dries out the poop and it all just gets knocked off thru the wire.

What are the tan things called? Lemons?
And what is this one?
I think I need these kind next after tuxedos unless I get some tux in my current batch.

I need ever color quail now.

 

[RUNuts]

Hiiii Nutty im running my mouth too much again

You are so cute when you are being modest!

Really i think its the lines and the upbringing. These things could count how many times theyve run out of food or water on one foot. They say each time that happens it retards their growth and you dont get the same end product. And they Eat Alot. My goodness. Like as much as my Svart Hona chickens each eat. Still nobody can touch the wyandottes though. Those feather dusters eat more in three hours than a group of 5 quail eat in 24.

Interesting. Growth rate will be affected by food, agree. I try to keep the feeders full, but the little turkeys are knocking it over to feed the chickens. Put half a brick on it. Mostly worked. One coop has a whole brick now. Talented, aren't they?

Combine the small eggs with the 6 ounces carcass weights, I've got small jumbos. Answers several questions. Eyeballing the weights again, I'm closer to a 13+ gram average compared to a 11 gram from the Lucky line starters. A bit behind yours, though.

Really like your quail tractor. I could run them in the garden... How often do they rocket out?

 

[Kiki]

Yessss! You NEED more quail!!

And wow that is a big pond!! Just for the ducks!?



Thanks again. I think that makes sense cause all the nutrients go into the water, right?

Hmmm... I’ll try it shorter next time. I think last time I did like 8 or 10 minutes but before that they still seemed hard to me. Idk. Broccoli and kale and stuff I’ve done shorter but squash seems to take forever or be hard to get right. Idk.

I’ve tried it before but I’m not a huge raw vegetable person tbh.

But I will try it again. But usually when I eat stuff raw I end up dumping dressing on it anyway so it ends up not so healthy.



That sounds soooo good OMG. I normally hate asparagus.



I am not really a raw vegetable fan. and I love squash sautéed the best I think but never tried with bacon.

Put just one or two slices of bacon, cut up. Fresh garlic and an onion to the zucchini.
I throw in some crushed red pepper flakes too.

 

[Kiki]

Ok I need to make my lunch check eggs for any straggler pips and sleep. Peace out girl scouts

This post reminded me of this movie.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0098519/