➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Pandaisy]

Little runt is doing well, even tough she still looks like she is only three weeks old. The big girls accepted her without any problem and one even tried to sit on her like a mother hen. She is making chick noises while her siblings already do adult noises and show interest in laid eggs. I have had runts before, but they feathered out normally like the rest.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

Little Benjamina
Very cute little Falb Fee

 

[FortCluck]

I’m calling the SSC hatch... 4 cross beaks DIS (They couldn’t zip or tried and
and 7 infertile. 21 made it to lockdown. 1 I cracked and 1 was delivered cracked.

Rosetta 24 made it to lockdown... 6 early quitters. I’m happy with the rosettas.

Heres one of the cross beaks or scissor beak... Poor things. I’m glad they passed in the shell. I hate culling chicks!

 

[Teneniel]

Hey so this is the dumbest noob question ever but does an initial pip look like a tiny white bump on the fat end?

 

[Kiki]

The chicks have been moved to the larger brooder. Not so crowded now.View attachment 2233563

Are these silvery tux?

 

[Kiki]

Hey so this is the dumbest noob question ever but does an initial pip look like a tiny white bump on the fat end?

Candle it. If it's a pip you will see a crack.

 

[Kiki]

I’m calling the SSC hatch... 4 cross beaks DIS (They couldn’t zip or tried and
and 7 infertile. 21 made it to lockdown. 1 I cracked and 1 was delivered cracked.

Rosetta 24 made it to lockdown... 6 early quitters. I’m happy with the rosettas.

Heres one of the cross beaks or scissor beak... Poor things. I’m glad they passed in the shell. I hate culling chicks!
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Poor thing.

 

[Kiki]

We now have 12 baby quail in a brooder! Thanks for the encouragement! They like old TP tubes for tunnels to run thru or sleep in!View attachment 2236605

Tunnels are a good place for someone to get stuck and killed.

 

[Nabiki]

Are these silvery tux?
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I think so! I've got a huge variety of colours out of these eggs. It's going to be hard to choose which ones to keep.

 

[Kiki]

I'm on the edge of my seat too, it's just passed the end of hatch day with no signs of movement. I'm beginning to think they got cooked in the post and never had a chance!

Have you candled to look for movement in the air cell?
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