1st time using egg carton method and I've got pips!

[redchicken]

what is the egg carton method?

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Instead of laying the eggs on their sides in the bator, I put the little end down in cardboard egg cartons. It was a beautifully clean hatch with all healthy chicks. Last time I hatched when I just layed them down, the hatching ones kicked all the other eggs around and I think they drowned. This way the excess liquid is at the bottom of the egg and their heads are at the top.

 

[BirdBoy88]

Congrats on the new babies

i may just have to try that egg carton method... i've been thinking about it

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I think you should!! My button layed an egg!!! How are yours doing? Oh - and I ordered some coturnix eggs from SamG - what do you keep them in?

 

[BirdBoy88]

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aw congrat on the button egg

my button teens are doing great.. there 5 weeks old so far i can only see one male cuz he has the bib but i no theres more cuz when i'm not looking they crow..lol

And Sam eggs you will love.. great fertility

but you already no that..lol

mine are 5 weeks old as well there in there new pen my dad made he copy off our rabbit hutch

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the egg carton method when the chick hatches they just fall off to the side?

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I was just on Craig's List looking for rabbit hutches. Can they stay outside in the winter? I'm so unprepared...I know nothing about them.

With the egg cartons - they zip at the top just like the buttons do and climb out - it is awesome and very clean. Last month alot of my hatch drowned when they were laying on their sides. The ones that hatched after day 21 had issues. This time, no problems at all, even the surprise that hatched today, day 23! Will only do it this way from now on. Out of 35 eggs, I had 27 CLEAN babies.

(Thanks Oldtimegator!!!!)

 

[BirdBoy88]

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Oh kool i'm getting very tempted with the egg carton method

and my coturnix chicks during the winter i'm going to put them in the barn

i'm still learning myself about them..lol they are lovely birds though just to cute

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

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Oh, I'm soooo glad you had such a great hatch!! I don't have an automatic turner and really like being able to turn a whole carton at once. Very quick and I don't have to touch them.

 

[kaya's farm]

do button quails live in or outside for the winter, my hubby and i love them

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I'm not sure, but I doubt buttons can live outside.

Two eggs pipped during the night but I'd be surprised if they hatched. With all the opening going on, my humidity dropped and I had trouble getting it back up. This morning it was at 61%. Was 64% when I left for work this morning. Temps dropped too and although I got it back up, it was running between 98 and 103. Now at 102. So, if they hatch it would be a miracle I think.