➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CindyinSD]

Hmm. I thought in my state (maybe others?) it was illegal to practice Veterinary medicine (invasive surgery) on other people's animals without a license. So most were doing the caponizing to their own birds only and not selling or giving them away as pets. Maybe I'm remembering wrong.

I don't think a mature rooster would do as well, larger testes means more blood vessels and require a larger incision. Might not fix all the rooster behavior as it could be habit at that point.

Except for sentimentality, there's no upside to caponing a mature rooster for me. It's too late to make a difference in the table qualities. The reason it's hard to do has more to do with the difficulty of coaxing a large, fragile gland out between relatively close-set ribs. I didn't see anyone complaining about greater blood loss. And yes, I'm sure it would violate regulations even though there was no compensation and done strictly as a favor, to save the beloved pet's life. I wouldn't do it. Too much risk legally; not worth it.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

These will not hatch

 

[Pyxis]

My lavender pen is finally laying! I have two lavender males over lavender and lavender split hens. Got two eggs yesterday. Gonna have to set them and test fertility, and then I'll probably hatch some for myself, just to add a few more hens to the pen, and then sell the eggs.

 

[tacothechicken]

Had last 2 eggs pip before I left, unfortunately one gave up approximately 2-3 hrs before hatching but the second is almost unzipped that would total 5 of eight eight eggs good at lockdown hatched out of an original 12 total. Luckily baby number 4 was fine while I was gone and is now sleeping in the brooder whith Goose, Beezer, and Cricket. Quilliams in the Aviary being a feathery potato.

 

[tacothechicken]

Welcome to the world tiny number 5!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Do quail chicks fail later in incubation in general? I had 8 eggs that failed and 3 were full sized and 2 had no reason not to hatch

 

[R2elk]

Do quail chicks fail later in incubation in general? I had 8 eggs that failed and 3 were full sized and 2 had no reason not to hatch

They are just like any other eggs. Fully developed that fail to hatch is often due to too high of humidity during the incubation phase. If the humidity is too high, the air cell fails to grow to the right size. The chicks get too big and are not able to maneuver to zip.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Okay. I just wasn't sure because mine almost never fail this late. I had one chicken fail instead of hatch but that one had 2 membranes and only broke one. But my humidity did get out of wack during lock down

 

[R2elk]

Okay. I just wasn't sure because mine almost never fail this late. I had one chicken fail instead of hatch but that one had 2 membranes and only broke one. But my humidity did get out of wack during lock down

Based on Kiki's experience, she runs her humidity for quail lower than what most people use for chicken eggs.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Yeah, I was trying to keep it at 55ish, but it would skyrocket to 70+ in minutes without water filling up both trays and leaving the incubator cracked open more to let air out, and then would plummet to 20s at night when I shut the incubator except for the normal vent. I'm hoping it was just a weird spot in my house and it fixes itself next time