➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[sealer39]

Joining you guys today! Woo!
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Good luck with your hatch!

 

[TeePants]

Where do you celadon eggs come from?

A neighbor! Got them off our local craigslist. The guy seemed really young, I assumed it’s his high school 4H project or something - hard to tell with masks on!

Also, do not reccomend the Kebonnixs incubator for quail, in spite of the positive reviews and photos of successful hatch days on amazon - unless you are a much more relaxed person than me, lol. Watching them get turned all around in those massive slots is taking years off my life!

 

[TeePants]

Oh, the non-celadons are descendants of some Myshire stock he had, though! Pearls, Silvers and Italians I think? The celadon are mixes & tuxedos.

 

[Nabiki]

I kicked mine out too. They're happier with a lot more space.

 

[FloorCandy]

Today I had one straggler, it had pipped in the middle of the egg yesterday afternoon, today it was not making progress and the membrane had darkened. I helped it out, and it was backwards, and covered in goo, I assume it broke the yolk struggling to get out. I cleaned it up as best as I could so it wouldn’t be glued to itself with yolk, it still looks pretty crappy, but it can move all the limbs and neck. It was a side layer for several hours, so I made it a little canoe to keep it upright and it can stand now, not alone for long, but in the little canoe it’s fine. There’s some food in there, and I’ve been giving it some nutridrench and water every couple hours. At first hatch I gave it some straight up nutridrench.

At the beginning last year I helped them all, now I kinda let nature do it’s thing, I’ll tape some toes, and occasionally hobble a splay, but I just cull side layers if they don’t get up after like 5 hours. This one looks like it will be really cute tho, it’s part of the snowie celadon project and this hatch will give me blue laying hens. I had a poor hatch so I’m looking to save it. I came home from little league and it’s doing really well:

 

[TeePants]

Poor little booger. I’m rooting for them!

 

[FloorCandy]

Today I had one straggler, it had pipped in the middle of the egg yesterday afternoon, today it was not making progress and the membrane had darkened. I helped it out, and it was backwards, and covered in goo, I assume it broke the yolk struggling to get out. I cleaned it up as best as I could so it wouldn’t be glued to itself with yolk, it still looks pretty crappy, but it can move all the limbs and neck. It was a side layer for several hours, so I made it a little canoe to keep it upright and it can stand now, not alone for long, but in the little canoe it’s fine. There’s some food in there, and I’ve been giving it some nutridrench and water every couple hours. At first hatch I gave it some straight up nutridrench.

At the beginning last year I helped them all, now I kinda let nature do it’s thing, I’ll tape some toes, and occasionally hobble a splay, but I just cull side layers if they don’t get up after like 5 hours. This one looks like it will be really cute tho, it’s part of the snowie celadon project and this hatch will give me blue laying hens. I had a poor hatch so I’m looking to save it. I came home from little league and it’s doing really well:
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Just did last call, I went up and he was sprawled out over the side of the canoe like it was a recliner chair. I gave him some nutridrench, then as much water as he would take. I put him back to see how he’s standing - and he’s walking. I’ve been holding his bad foot in the proper orientation when I feed him and the toes have spread without tape. I put a little plate with food and a small water dish, shallow with rocks.

His balance is poor, he’s more like a chick that hatched 30 minutes ago, unsteady and wobbly. But wow, crazy improvement. He had a lot of yolk all over him so I was really worried he wouldn’t make it because he wasn’t eating fast enough. Hopefully he will make the move to eating and drinking on his own, because now that he’s walking, I’m not getting back up in 2 hours lol. I did just drink a glass of water, so nature will wake me up at like 5 am to deal with that haha and I’ll check him. I’m hoping I’ll find him running around and not back on his side or worse. He’s super cute, I’m kind of attached lol.

 

[TeePants]

Woo hoo! Pretty sure if he makes it till morning you have to name him

 

[FloorCandy]

Woo hoo! Pretty sure if he makes it till morning you have to name him

Perhaps I’ll call him Magellan, since he tried to hatch out the side of the egg. I actually have a good track record of chicks I’ve really worked with after hatch being female, so I have my fingers crossed.

 

[shrimpsilkies]

My hatch has finished. I think there’s like 42/50 sex links, lots of boys. Like 7/12 or so of the snow angels hatched, but here’s the thing, I had moved everyone into the brinsea when I candled at 9 days, then at lockdown, when I went to put the snowie celadon eggs into the nr-360, so they don’t get mixed up, I saw that I had added sex links to the tray with the snow angels, I even wrote it on the masking tape I stuck to the side of the tray to identify it as the snow angel eggs, buuuuuuut, I didn’t mark the eggs or note where one set ended and the other began.

so like 4-6 of the snow angel eggs were really sex links. I can pretty much spot them, but I’m keeping them separate anyway.

The snowie celadons had a crappy hatch rate. Only like 50%. The 3D printed tray is to blame I think, so next hatch I’ll try the original like I always used before the last few. I think they get angled and don’t turn right, which is why I moved them to the brinsea. Haven’t heard from the friend who is supposed to be creating a new version for me.

The snowie celadon project chicks I got are pretty cute, here they are mixed in with the snow angels:
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I bet you can spot the intruders haha.
The four yellows I think will be really cute, 2 look like they’ll be faint gray tuxes and the other 2 of what I’ve started to call dusty rose, it’s like a super light goldish silver, since the parents are Italians over mostly scarlet tuxes, a couple Egyptians and a Rosetta tux, there’s a lot of silver/roux mixes popping up. The two light ones at the bottom of the bowl look gray now, but I’m thinking they’ll grow into a light tan with silvery highlights.

Are your snow angels double silver? Any blind albinos?