➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[kurby22]

Another bad day! While feeding & watering....again another 3 ft'er, with 3 more quail eaten. I have 8 left of the 20 I moved from the indoor brooder to this enclosure. View attachment 2762632View attachment 2762633View attachment 2762635View attachment 2762638View attachment 2762641View attachment 2762670
Not moving anymore outside until full grown. None of my full grown quail have been eaten by snakes.

Holy moly! They must’ve put out through the snake system that your place is where it’s at! That’s crazy! Poor babies!

 

[kurby22]

Well I seem to have the same issue as @Nabiki and couldn’t pass up a deal and bought some hatching eggs. They were 25% off and free shipping! I have “can’t pass up a deal” and “I like hatching baby quail” issues! They had a mix option that includes snowies, pearl fees, and German pastels. Some fun colors I don’t have

 

[Nabiki]

My eggs are still lost in the mail. Looks like I'll be getting a replacement shipment.

 

[muddy75]

I have a bunch set to hatch tomorrow. I had set about 100, but when I went to candle on day 10, I noticed the turner wasn’t working. The brinsea has never had an issue before. Upon closer inspection, the bar with the notched tab that meets the turning gear thing was not aligned, the motor and gear thing had become unseated in its spot on the lid, and slid out a bit, so it was no longer lining up, so it was making all the noises, but not actually moving the trays. I lost about 40%. There were 61 remaining, but at least 10 were questionable. At lockdown, I found an oozing one with a crack, so I’m down to 60.

The celadons did better than the mixed group, I had about 65 set from the celadon pen, and the rest were from the celadon x celadon carrier pen. I only have about 17 eggs of the mixed group left, and the rest are the pure celadons. I fixed the turner on day 10, and it’s been fine since, I’m hoping for the best, spot checks at lockdown look promising. I have some of the snowie celadon project birds in the bator as of when I candled the ones that are going to be hatching, so In a week and a half I’ll have pure celadons coming from the project blue layers and a Tibetan tux celadon male. It’s exciting because when those hatch, I can keep some boys, I’ve been selling all the boys from the last 4 hatches because I can’t be sure they’re pure celadons. I did keep Apollo, and I plan to start testing him with some celadon hens and I’ll see if all his daughters lay blue. He’s so tiny and spunky and pretty I couldn’t part with him.

that’s one of the features of the brinsea that i’m not happy with......very easily dislodged

 

[FloorCandy]

that’s one of the features of the brinsea that i’m not happy with......very easily dislodged

I had a lot pip in wrong places, and the brinsea has had maybe 3-5 total out of more than 1000 chicks do this before now, this time, there were at least 8 I helped who pipped in the middle. One pipped in the middle, and made a diagonal slash line. A bunch were pipping, but their backs were like glued in and they couldn’t turn. I have several I helped out and they’re part bald on their backs from me working them free. There were a lot that didn’t even pip, and it looks like everything was stuck on 1 side of the egg. I got 32 out of the 60 that went into lockdown, I had considered tossing them all when I found the turner hadn’t been working for the first 9-10 days, I’m glad I didn’t, the ones that did hatch are lovely and strong. Now I know I need to keep an eye on the turner lining up.

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

A lone chick hatched 2 hours ago. It fell back into its shell then hatched twice. It's still waiting for friends.

 

[kurby22]

A lone chick hatched 2 hours ago. It fell back into its shell then hatched twice. It's still waiting for friends.

I always feel bad for the first little one! They seem so lonely waiting for the others

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

I always feel bad for the first little one! They seem so lonely waiting for the others

4 hours later and it has a friend.

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

Thirteen hours since the first one hatched, now there are 6 total, with six more possible. Some are pipped -- too risky to open the incubator right now.

 

[FloorCandy]

Here are the chicks: