Babies!!! - Help?

[micah wotring]

I thought with chicken chicks they have 3 days of yolk nutrition but quail have about 24 hours? I have to open it to move the two fluffy ones to a brooder.

Oh, okay! I hadn't known that.

It died

it had veins wrapped around its beak and stopped breathing.

Oh

sorry

 

[Q QUAIL S]

That is so sad.

 

[eHuman]

I never wait longer than 48 hours myself but there are others who wait 3 days without losses.

 

[crimsonmama]

Congrats on your hatchlings! I just got ten out of eleven hatch yesterday! The last one had developed but died sometime before hatch day but I kinda expected it as I did a water test and one egg floated high in water so I thought I either got one good or one bad egg! Lol

This is my first time hatching anything!

My last #10 egg struggled and struggled. He pipped but then as all other nine eggs zipped and hatched he just couldn't seem to zip. The membrane around his beak went a dark colour and so tough. I thought he was one of those 'shrink wrapped' chicks I've read about and I tried increasing humidity and dampening the membrane but he just couldn't zip it and he was chirping and pushing to get out and looked so lonely being last egg in incubated... so in the end I thought I will help despite reading I shouldn't. If I left him he would prob die by morning anyways.
So I broke a lot of shell off then peeled back the membrane slowly whilst giving him plenty of chances to push himself out. The membrane where his beak had been through was so so tough! It's even now still stuck to his back and feathers.

I don't know if he will survive.he seems the runt of the litter at the mo. I left him in the incubater overnight to dry but his back is bald whereas he's fluffy elsewhere. He's moving around though. This morning I put him in to join his brothers and sisters. He seems happy not to be alone but isn't as agile yet as the others have been out a lot longer!

We will see!

My coturnix female is sitting on eggs so next weekend maybe will have about ten more chicks! Although at least mama quail will do some of the hard work teaching them the ropes! My incubated ones are eating and drinking well. I put soda bottle caps with water and a marble in around the brooder. The marble draws their attention and when they peck at it they find the water! Plus they can't drown in bottle caps!

 

[Binki]

Grats to both of you

!!!