➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[muddy75]

I’m completely speechless right now....I made a joke about my DS getting me the diamond doves for my birthday and

 

[Kiki]

I’m completely speechless right now....I made a joke about my DS getting me the diamond doves for my birthday and
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CONGRATS MUDDY!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 

[FortCluck]

I’m completely speechless right now....I made a joke about my DS getting me the diamond doves for my birthday and
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Happy birthday

 

[Kiki]

MUDDY!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ducks-now-a-chat-thread.1229923/post-19766830

 

[ShrekDawg]

I’m completely speechless right now....I made a joke about my DS getting me the diamond doves for my birthday and
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Amazing!!

 

[ThatCityChick]

Can you take them out of that tray thing?

They aren't in the tray now. That pic was the day I put the in. I took them out of the tray Sunday afternoon when went into lockdown.

 

[ThatCityChick]

If you set them in the morning you could count it as day one but I'm not so sure I'd count it as day one setting them in the afternoon.
Actually I think I have set eggs that late and counted it as day one.

Either way...
Not too important.


Did you calibrate a thermometer and do you have more than just one in your bator?

Have a mercury thermometer to make sure temp is accurate.

 

[ThatCityChick]

I wouldn’t expect anything until the 9th. I never count the set day as day 1 because 24 hours hasn’t gone by in the bator.

Ok. I count the day changing to the next day at 1pm. So I was hoping they would start hatching tomorrow afternoon. But I guess it won't be until Thursday afternoon?

 

[FortCluck]

Ok. I count the day changing to the next day at 1pm. So I was hoping they would start hatching tomorrow afternoon. But I guess it won't be until Thursday afternoon?

I’d give it till Thursday you should start seeing internal pips maybe tomorrow night.

 

[pozees2]

No.


Please don't be tricked into thinking that being NPIP means something good.

I am not a fan of anyone who uses someone else's name when trying to advertise.

'Line stock' crap is silly to me.

I'm familiar with NPIP, was certified for several years until it no longer made sense - I wasn't showing or shipping out of state, they test only for things we never see here, and once staff changed they seemed incapable of leaving a voicemail when they called me during work hours to make my annual testing appointment. This year is the first time in 3 years I've brought in any new birds, kept them quarantined, they are robustly healthy and on I go

The only time I've ever referred to lineage of my birds was when I was breeding Rhode Island Reds and people wanted to know where they originated, which honestly never made sense, because the person selecting the birds to breed and hatch from determines, to a large extent, the characteristics they are trying to perpetuate. When I bred dogs, I selected not only for conformation, but temperament, because it was a toy breed, which are intended to be companion animals, and if they're jerks they aren't very good companions.