Got 16 eggs in the 'bator, though most are from the new hens and so I am unsure if they'll hatch despite being a good size, as the hens are still quite young despite mating.
Can't wait to see the little fuzzbutts! Hopefully I also get more weird colours too.
Sorry for your loss. Hopefully the mutation pops up again in the chicks or/and any future hatchings.
No babies yet, hopefully my eggs are just lazy and wanna sleep in an extra day or two, I felt a few kickings when I took them off the turner on day 15, so I know there's life in the eggs. I incubated them the same way I incubated the other chicks I hatched in it and some of them did take a few extra days to hatch, so I am not that concerned.
77.9 C temp (still air 'bator so the temp is higher) and the humidity has been put to the 60% for any eggs that do hatch, but I gotta keep an eye on it and top it up roughly 3 times a day as the weather as of late has practically been sucking the humidity out of it.
Edit: Also, due to the weather, I also got heatsick, again. @_@ Managed to pull myself away from the bucket though to keep checking on the incubator. Some reason I am very prone to getting sick when it gets too hot, but it doesn't take too much for me to recover. Eating raw onion and a sprinkling of Himalayan salt helped me out (as I had the salt deficiency version as no way was I dehydrated as I keep a bottle of pop or water near me at all times) as well as the fans to cool me down.
Sorry for your loss. Hopefully the mutation pops up again in the chicks or/and any future hatchings.
No babies yet, hopefully my eggs are just lazy and wanna sleep in an extra day or two, I felt a few kickings when I took them off the turner on day 15, so I know there's life in the eggs. I incubated them the same way I incubated the other chicks I hatched in it and some of them did take a few extra days to hatch, so I am not that concerned.
77.9 C temp (still air 'bator so the temp is higher) and the humidity has been put to the 60% for any eggs that do hatch, but I gotta keep an eye on it and top it up roughly 3 times a day as the weather as of late has practically been sucking the humidity out of it.
Edit: Also, due to the weather, I also got heatsick, again. @_@ Managed to pull myself away from the bucket though to keep checking on the incubator. Some reason I am very prone to getting sick when it gets too hot, but it doesn't take too much for me to recover. Eating raw onion and a sprinkling of Himalayan salt helped me out (as I had the salt deficiency version as no way was I dehydrated as I keep a bottle of pop or water near me at all times) as well as the fans to cool me down.
And I am already feeling better, but still feeling a bit bleh.
Also, trying a different brooder type. I know baby quail like to hide, need a grit source and like to hunt small insects, so I made a planted brooder using soil and some moss, ivy, grass and mint from the garden. I haven't seen any critters in there despite putting in some moss from the back yard, but I know that there's usually tiny pillbugs hiding in them.
I know quail also love drinking water droplets off things and are attracted to water droplets (makes it easier to syringe-water them if ill,) so they will enjoy it when I carefully spray my plants in there. They also have a food dish and water tower and I have already got their food ready to put in.
I normally use gamebird pellets and finch seed mix I feed the adults and dried mealworms all crushed up for their teeni beaks, but we are out of dried mealworms so I stole some of my cat's biscuits for the extra protein that the babies need, and I have done this before with good success. I feed this to all my babies and they rarely waste any of it and grow up healthy and strong.
Edit: A baby hatched! Looks to be a silver judging by the fluff. Silly thing had it's butt stuck in the egg and needed a little help out.
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The fluff looks a little dark to be a silver to me though, what do you guys think?
