➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[ShrekDawg]

I'm telling you you don't know so you may think you offed males but those balls may not have been balls.

Maybe but the ones I offed were like the only one so was sure on or so I thought. Balls are the round white things right? Cause they definitely had those and no eggs inside! The females I offed looked much different inside.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Who knows.
Why don't you backup all photos to Google photos?

I don’t know they might be on the Cloud but I’m not sure how to get to it. It’ll be easier if I search I think. Hold.

 

[FloorCandy]

Well photos or not, it’s not like you can put them back together and get the birds back, so what’s done is done right? I’ve had post cull remorse, and I just say, oh well, I can’t put the heads back, so I just have to put the doubts out of my mind and look toward the next hatch.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Well photos or not, it’s not like you can put them back together and get the birds back, so what’s done is done right? I’ve had post cull remorse, and I just say, oh well, I can’t put the heads back, so I just have to put the doubts out of my mind and look toward the next hatch.

Hmm that’s very true!! And oddly I was still getting a lot of eggs even after butchering so idk hahah Mine aren’t laying right now though.

 

[Kiki]

Hmm that’s very true!! And oddly I was still getting a lot of eggs even after butchering so idk hahah Mine aren’t laying right now though.

I was so ready to zap you if you use that damn ton word.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Okay here’s the posts on it. The first bird I did, the details which apparently I only did one girl and 7 boys but who knows, and the rest of the birds and lots of pictures. I’m not sure if that girl is the same girl as the sick girl so I might have done two girls. I think I did. So two girls the rest were boys I think but there’s pictures of them all.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/➡➡-kiki-speak.1377335/post-22965279

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-pearly-masquerade-ball.1400063/post-22988767

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-pearly-masquerade-ball.1400063/post-22989073

 

[ShrekDawg]

I was so ready to zap you if you use that damn ton word.

nope! Thought better of it

 

[FloorCandy]

Here’s an update and an interesting story.

Several weeks ago I had a single chick hatch from a small group of double yolkers and 2 normal eggs I added in case, so no one would be alone. Well one double yolker hatched out 1 chick, and no others hatched, I think I dropped one of the normal ones, and one wasn’t fertile. I call the one chick Han Solo the lonely chick.

He’s about 5 weeks now and I’m pretty sure he’s a she. Last week when I had new chicks hatch I put Solo in with my albino snow angels, and he started to try to peck their eyes because of the red. So I put him alone again. This week I have 2 left from last week, one tux with very little head color, and a random Rosetta to keep him company until he/she can join another group, then the Rosetta is off to the reptile guy. I tried to put the 1 1/2 week olds with solo while I cleaned their bin, and he immediately pecked one. So I put them with the snow angels while I cleaned their bin, and the snow angels love them! The hens are tucking them under their wings, one of them led them to the food and water and made certain they ate and drank. They’re grooming them and caring for them, so I’ve been leaving the babies with them. It’s frickin adorable. I’ll feel bad if the bigs hurt the littles, but both groups seem so happy with the arrangement. My husband says it’s good to give the blind birds something to do beside walking around pecking the wall to figure out where they’re going.

 

[FloorCandy]

I have a small hatch going today. I have 40 total, 32 regular HG celadons, and 8 collected from the snow angels. I was very curious to see if my Snowflake is even fertile, and all the eggs developed up to lockdown. It seems most of them pipped, and 2 have hatched so far. 22 out of 32 of the celadons have hatched, most have pips I can see, but the chicks make it hard to tell now.

The snowie chick in the bator is crowing his little heart out. Sounds like he’s hiccuping into an echo chamber, his little head wobbles his throat makes the gargly motion. He’s trapped in a bowl with the spotted eggs but he can hear the rest around him.

I also set 51 sex links in the nr360, I was supposed to put them in the brinsea, since they didn’t hatch well in the nr360 last time, but they’re getting old and the weather is so cold I think the eggs from the past couple days probably froze between being laid and collected. I can’t add to the brinsea for a day or so while the hatch is going on, so I wanted to get them in now because I have someone waiting for chicks. This is my first middle hatch that is part of a staggered hatch schedule I’ve been doing to maintain the amount of chicks I need. I set eggs, and a week or so later I set more, then the first hatched, I raised humidity to 55 for lockdown and hatch, lowered it after, and raised again now. The chicks hatching now had a humidity spike for 4 days halfway thru, but are hatching well regardless. I’m extremely happy with my brinsea so far.

 

[FloorCandy]

I’m up to 29/32 celadon, and 6/8 snowies hatched. It’s day 19, but it’s winding down. One snowie is still hatching, I don’t know the status of the other, I lifted it briefly for a second when I removed the last 4 chicks and it felt full and a bit of movement, but I’m not sure. I can see one pip has a beak thru it on the remaining celadons, but it looks like it shrink wrapped that way, it was right next to a chick so I didn’t feel it last time. Trying to be quick because there were still some with pips. I think I’ll get 1-3 more chicks. I think I started with about 48 eggs and 8 or so weren’t developing, dang winter. But 40 went into lockdown, and I have 35 healthy chicks so far, I’m considering this a great success, now to get rid of all these chicks lol.