🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[AusHen]

I think the Welsummers are done hatching. Spot the odd one out *hmmmm*

 

[Poultry by the Numbers]

So we have had 2 more quail chicks hatch this morning (they are still drying in the incubator). After reading some of the previous posts I am concerned about adding them to the brooder with the 23 other chicks that hatched on Saturday and Sunday morning. Any recommendations?

 

[FortCluck]

So we have had 2 more quail chicks hatch this morning (they are still drying in the incubator). After reading some of the previous posts I am concerned about adding them to the brooder with the 23 other chicks that hatched on Saturday and Sunday morning. Any recommendations?

Do you use a heat lamp or brooder plate or ect?

Quail can be rough once they’re past 3 days. They grow incredibly fast. If you use a heat lamp, you can put them in a box near it and the other chicks can’t get them.

You can try to add them and just watch to see what happens. I’m my experience if they hatch more than 3 days apart I separate them.

 

[Poultry by the Numbers]

Do you use a heat lamp or brooder plate or ect?

Quail can be rough once they’re past 3 days. They grow incredibly fast. If you use a heat lamp, you can put them in a box near it and the other chicks can’t get them.

You can try to add them and just watch to see what happens. I’m my experience if they hatch more than 3 days apart I separate them.

I use a brooder plate. There are still 2 more eggs left to hatch (I was going to candle them when I take the 2 out). I have other plates and lights though. I may have to upgrade the group of 23 so I can use the small plate for the 2 then.

 

[FortCluck]

I use a brooder plate. There are still 2 more eggs left to hatch (I was going to candle them when I take the 2 out). I have other plates and lights though. I may have to upgrade the group of 23 so I can use the small plate for the 2 then.

Yours might not be like mine and kill each other. I had two different households eggs. The aggressive ones were my friends Mine are usually well tempered. I like to just do my own eggs, but these were a trade they wanted to do with me... I got the short stick on that trade

 

[ShrekDawg]

Chicken party!! LOL babies are growing like weeds 6 weeks old now!! And Mama 2 is such a good mama she made sure they got some and called them over. They were scared so she shooed everyone away gently and when chicks still didn’t notice it was safe, she went and got them lol and lets them peck food off her beak

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[FortCluck]

Chicken party!! LOL babies are growing like weeds 6 weeks old now!! And Mama 2 is such a good mama she made sure they got some and called them over. They were scared so she shooed everyone away gently and when chicks still didn’t notice it was safe, she went and got them lol and lets them peck food off her beak

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Is one of those a buff Cochin?

 

[Trisseh]

Oi. Anyone else ever come home to missing quail? The wind had picked up like crazy while I was at work and when I got home the lid on the quail pen was blown off and only one quail left in the pen.

but thankfully, they went and hid in my corn and I found them!! Needless to say, their pen got an overhaul on how it closes.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Is one of those a buff Cochin?

The one in the first pic is a Buff Orpington.

I have one each of Buff Orpington, Black Australorp, Leghorn, Delaware, Partridge Rock, and Speckled Sussex and then 2 Easter Eggers, 5 bantam Birchen Cochins, 4 Brabanters (2 gold and 2 cream), plus Jack’s 4 babies which are 2 Leghorn/Lavender Orpington crosses and 2 EE/LO crosses.

Oh and 8 quail.

Plus my 2 parakeets (budgies ??), 4 goldfish, and the cat.

 

[FortCluck]

The one in the first pic is a Buff Orpington.

I have one each of Buff Orpington, Black Australorp, Leghorn, Delaware, Partridge Rock, and Speckled Sussex and then 2 Easter Eggers, 5 bantam Birchen Cochins, 4 Brabanters (2 gold and 2 cream), plus Jack’s 4 babies which are 2 Leghorn/Lavender Orpington crosses and 2 EE/LO crosses.

Oh and 8 quail.

Plus my 2 parakeets (budgies ??), 4 goldfish, and the cat.

Is it a bantam?

I will not even go into all the animals I have because people will think I am even more nuts. I am getting rid of two chickens today though for an exchange... I am not sure if it is a cockerel yet, but I will probably keep it if it is. We are butchering a ton this weekend so my flock will decrease dramatically.