➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

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My chicks are 12 days old, bedding is natural soil (mini vermicompost type set up). They are trying to dust bathe already. Should I put a sand box in for them already? I was thinking I should wait until three weeks for that and for grit.
 

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My chicks are 12 days old, bedding is natural soil (mini vermicompost type set up). They are trying to dust bathe already. Should I put a sand box in for them already? I was thinking I should wait until three weeks for that and for grit.
Three weeks is about right.
 
My chicks are 12 days old, bedding is natural soil (mini vermicompost type set up). They are trying to dust bathe already. Should I put a sand box in for them already? I was thinking I should wait until three weeks for that and for grit.
Couldn't they just dust bathe in the soil? A clean spot, of course ;)
 
My first time incubating, had several dozen quail babies hatch over Sunday (day 17) and Monday (day 18)!!! It was like Christmas, don't think I slept much at all the last two nights. I'm quite relieved as I had some issues with the humidity pump and thought maybe I would lose the whole hatch. I was literally on BYC searching "Day 17 no movement or pipping" when I heard cheeping from the incubator and realized that the first egg had hatched. Didn't get the second one for almost 10 hours, and a bunch more hatched over night. I still have a bunch of unhatched eggs. No movement or pipping all day as far as I can tell. Today at 2 pm will be Day 19. Should I leave them in for another day or two, or assume that they'd have hatched with the others if they were still viable?
 
My first time incubating, had several dozen quail babies hatch over Sunday (day 17) and Monday (day 18)!!! It was like Christmas, don't think I slept much at all the last two nights. I'm quite relieved as I had some issues with the humidity pump and thought maybe I would lose the whole hatch. I was literally on BYC searching "Day 17 no movement or pipping" when I heard cheeping from the incubator and realized that the first egg had hatched. Didn't get the second one for almost 10 hours, and a bunch more hatched over night. I still have a bunch of unhatched eggs. No movement or pipping all day as far as I can tell. Today at 2 pm will be Day 19. Should I leave them in for another day or two, or assume that they'd have hatched with the others if they were still viable?
Leave them in, you might get late hatchers. I usually wait until day 20 or 21 before tossing them out.
 

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