➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

The first falb fee chick has hatched. My temp was a bit high, so it's a day early.

How many now Bee?

 

[Kiki]

Well the first round of quail made it thru with 15 hatching out of 21! Mostly rosettas and tuxedos, but I got at least one silver and one Italian. The silver is my favorite, so snuggly!

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Second round is already internally pipping, and yelling loud enough I was looking around for chicks I missed when moving to the brooder SO cute!!

Is this one feathered in yet?

 

[Nabiki]

How many now Bee?

Ummm... Around 50? One failed to thrive, one hatched with its intestines on the outside, but the rest look happy and healthy.

I still didn't have a great hatch rate, but it was better than my last one. I'm learning how to hatch at high altitude. I'm not giving up on the rest of the eggs yet. I had a couple surprise hatches today, so I'll probably candle early in the morning and see if there are signs of life in the remaining eggs.

 

[kurby22]

Is this one feathered in yet?

All but the head! This phase is the funniest to me, their heads look so tiny It’s a really sweet quail, totally happy just sitting with me Gonna look a lot like it’s Daddy!

 

[kurby22]

Another pretty baby from this hatch!

 

[Kiki]

A few of my Easter babies are laying.
I am going to set eggs again soon.

 

[HipMystic]

I finally got the barn cleaned out and most of my birds moved back into the HatchingTime cage. The water system must have frozen again right before I moved everyone for the winter - I filled it and water started pouring out of the plastic pipes I have them (hopefully) fixed, so I just have to put it back together

 

[Kiki]

I finally got the barn cleaned out and most of my birds moved back into the HatchingTime cage. The water system must have frozen again right before I moved everyone for the winter - I filled it and water started pouring out of the plastic pipes I have them (hopefully) fixed, so I just have to put it back together

You haven't thrown those dumb little cages away yet?

 

[Nabiki]

So, my first hatch of this year (hatched 4/23) was 18 chicks. 14 were boys. I just got three eggs out of their pen today.

 

[Kiki]

So, my first hatch of this year (hatched 4/23) was 18 chicks. 14 were boys. I just got three eggs out of their pen today.

I got 6 new eggs/layers today from my Easter HAL babies.