- Jul 26, 2009
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Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :
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How many Buttons do you have Dennimi?
I have 3 males and only 2 females, My grown pair and then I hatched out 3 babies and 2 were males and there is one lil' male, Buddy, that is kind of friendly so he will be my house pet!
The other two can be another breeding pair!
It's down to 14 now. 7 from the first hatch around July 5th and 6th. I lost 3 from my hatch last friday -- one hatched with what I first thought was just an unabsorbed yolk, but upon closer examination he had intestines on the outside of his body. The 2nd was born with a tiny, deformed foot on one side, started out seemingly ok, trying to eat and drink, but then quit. The third seemed normal at hatch but wouldn't eat or drink. I tried saving all 3 of them, but it didn't work. Sad. AND, I lost one of my 9 coturnix too -- a freak thing, it somehow sqeezed between the side of the rubbermade bin and the leg of Brinsea Ecoglow and got its head stuck, and I believe it suffocated in its panic or something along those lines. I didn't think there was a problem with the layout of the brooder, but I changed it right away. That was last weekend, we've been OK since then.
But all 7 of the remaining buttons from hatch #2 are healthy and growing.
On a side note, the Coturnix which are now about 10 days old are now bigger than the almost fully mature buttons hatched in early July.
Quote:
How many Buttons do you have Dennimi?
I have 3 males and only 2 females, My grown pair and then I hatched out 3 babies and 2 were males and there is one lil' male, Buddy, that is kind of friendly so he will be my house pet!
It's down to 14 now. 7 from the first hatch around July 5th and 6th. I lost 3 from my hatch last friday -- one hatched with what I first thought was just an unabsorbed yolk, but upon closer examination he had intestines on the outside of his body. The 2nd was born with a tiny, deformed foot on one side, started out seemingly ok, trying to eat and drink, but then quit. The third seemed normal at hatch but wouldn't eat or drink. I tried saving all 3 of them, but it didn't work. Sad. AND, I lost one of my 9 coturnix too -- a freak thing, it somehow sqeezed between the side of the rubbermade bin and the leg of Brinsea Ecoglow and got its head stuck, and I believe it suffocated in its panic or something along those lines. I didn't think there was a problem with the layout of the brooder, but I changed it right away. That was last weekend, we've been OK since then.
But all 7 of the remaining buttons from hatch #2 are healthy and growing.
On a side note, the Coturnix which are now about 10 days old are now bigger than the almost fully mature buttons hatched in early July.