➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[007Sean]

Where are the eggs at in incubator stage? I had a batch that was out of power for at least 5 hours before I got the generator up and running, but they were at 1 week in, they all survived. Hopefully you won't have a huge loss!

Edit... I just saw you only have a week to go, I hope your hatch wasn't damaged by your outage! How did they look when you candled them?

Haven't candled yet!

 

[R2elk]

Hey, @Kiki , did y'all lose power today?
Clear skies here but high winds came up around 3:30pm, loss power...loss 3 cabinet incubators of eggs! Power just came back on at 8:15pm. Going to candle after the temps stabilize but not holding too much hope, probably loss them all.

I have had an outage that long with only a slight delay in the expected hatching time and a slightly lower hatch rate.

 

[Alwaysfowlplay]

Hey everyone! I woke up to lots of peeps and have 3 babies and more shaking and pipped. However, one has curled toes on both feet, I believe it’s the one that took a long time to hatch because I mentally noted I would have to assist it if I woke up and it was still stuck and it’s egg is in the same place and it was directly next to it, fresh hatched. So I’ve been reading threads, my question is: do I let it sit for 24-48 hours and see if it improves, or boot with masking tape as soon as we take him out of the incubator? I also have vitamin B complex tablets so I was going to follow the directions and grind that and add to food. Will it hurt the others to have the extra vitamin or can I add it straight to all the food? The chick moves a lot but it does seem to fall over frequently...

 

[muddy75]

The bad storms went North of us last night, no rain even here. This wind just came out of nowhere! Guessing it blew some trees over into the power lines...it covered a pretty wide area of outage.

that the high ambient temps helped to avoid damage.....all my outages have been dead of winter with incubator temps falling to 75* and no major damage to the hatch.......

 

[muddy75]

Hey everyone! I woke up to lots of peeps and have 3 babies and more shaking and pipped. However, one has curled toes on both feet, I believe it’s the one that took a long time to hatch because I mentally noted I would have to assist it if I woke up and it was still stuck and it’s egg is in the same place and it was directly next to it, fresh hatched. So I’ve been reading threads, my question is: do I let it sit for 24-48 hours and see if it improves, or boot with masking tape as soon as we take him out of the incubator? I also have vitamin B complex tablets so I was going to follow the directions and grind that and add to food. Will it hurt the others to have the extra vitamin or can I add it straight to all the food? The chick moves a lot but it does seem to fall over frequently...

the extra vitamins should be fine and I would watch it for 24 hours or so then possibly consider boots......it also depends on your overall goal too....I have some adults outside that slipped by without me noticing or fixing curly toes and they do just fine!!

 

[Alwaysfowlplay]

the extra vitamins should be fine and I would watch it for 24 hours or so then possibly consider boots......it also depends on your overall goal too....I have some adults outside that slipped by without me noticing or fixing curly toes and they do just fine!!

They were really gnarly looking with all the toes curled a significant amount, but they already look much better and now are much less curled and the little one is active. I just don’t want them in pain or having problems, cosmetically I could care less if they have perfect feet.

 

[Alwaysfowlplay]

I have 4 healthy chicks so far. From what I can tell 3-4 more eggs going at various stages and it’s only halfway through day 18 so I’m hoping to get even more. I have 2 eggs that pipped closer to the pointy end of the shell. One is actively zipping and the other isn’t but I can see it breathing, so I was just going to leave them be. I read a few articles and it seems if they have a hole big enough to breathe then they should be ok? At what point would you help them out? I have not gotten to see a single one actually hatch. The last one I checked and it wasn’t even close, then went in 15 minutes later to a just hatched chick. Maybe I’ll just sit and watch during the toddlers nap time.

 

[danalovesdogs]

Aaaaaand the power’s out. Temp is already dropping in my incubator. The quail are at day 12, power isn’t coming back on for at least an hour. Is this going to doom this hatch?

 

[R2elk]

Aaaaaand the power’s out. Temp is already dropping in my incubator. The quail are at day 12, power isn’t coming back on for at least an hour. Is this going to doom this hatch?

If the power is only off for a couple of hours, the hatch should be fine.

 

[Nabiki]

Aaaaaand the power’s out. Temp is already dropping in my incubator. The quail are at day 12, power isn’t coming back on for at least an hour. Is this going to doom this hatch?

Maybe not. Can you wrap it in towels or something to try to reduce the heat loss?