Day 19 , 20 buttons 4 cortunix, come see the pics

[gabrielle1976]

Ok mr firecracker chick the first one to hatch woke me up at about 5:10am this morning screaming its little beak off , checked temp 97.8 , has food , has water, has the other baby that hatched last night , got sick of listening to it and went to sleep in my recliner, well aperntly the baby was calling to the babies out here

I came out here 2 were hatched 2 were hatching and one more was zipping and I had at least one more pip , needless to say I didnt get back to sleep

So I think I have 7 babies right now , not positive as I have a horried headache , and Im freaking tired.

 

[citalk2much]

Sorry about your headache

yay babies!

 

[gabrielle1976]

Yeah I really wish I was happer at the moment I love babies and I am very excited I have lots of yellow babies as far as I can tell though one looks butter scotch , but these headaches I have been getting suck the pleasure out of everything

Its cool that I have this many babies though last time I hatched buttons I got one baby ,
any one know how easy its gonna be to intro duce these guys to the single button baby thats about 3 weeks older ?

 

[citalk2much]

The butterscotch looking one is probley a cinnamon.
I would put a divider in the brooder and let them get to know each other for about a week then watch them close when you put them together. Buttons can be mean little things.

 

[gabrielle1976]

oh and while you r despenseing advice im haveing a hard time rigging something up for the second baby , i think he has spraddle leg but between his legs being teeny teeny tiny and him kicking like a spaze when i pick him up im stumpped on how to fix it?

 

[citalk2much]

Cut a bandaid down and tape its legs together probly going to need two people to do it it is an art to do it alone I have to have someone hold the chick for me with buttons I can do the others alone

 

[gabrielle1976]

poor mr 2 chick isnt just spradle legged he is still alll slick and not fluffy

he has some spunk when I pick him up but he sleeps mostly when he is down , I shure hope he makes it

 

[shelleyd2008]

If the butterscotch looking one is from my eggs, it's probably a cinnamon blueface. Cinnamons usually are grey with red stripes. The yellow ones, it would vary on those. If they are pure yellow, then they will be white. If yellow with grey on its head, most likely ivory, if yellow with grey stripes, then silver, and if grey with yellow stripes then slate.

Congrats on the babies!!

 

[gabrielle1976]

OK Im up to 8 babies from shellyd , and 3 from the persons unknown , I think its ether kelly or rizq or whatever they use as a screen name Im afriad I still have a head ach so I am in a funk , there are 2 yellows , as far as I can tell just strait plain yellow , one thats a yellowish butterscotch , 2 that look black but they have stripes and then the rest at this point are still not fluffy or look strait black.
Mr, 2 looks even worse then ever , I dont think he will make it , I tried to splint him but IM by my self and it just dosnt work also I think his legs may not be normal and one wing seems stuck in a bent up tight postion.

Oh and one of my cortunix quail eggs pipped

3 more , I am up to 14 I think

 

[gabrielle1976]

Lots of pics

Mr 2 / gimpy

one of the brown stirpped ones

sevral babies in there brooder

a better pic of the babies with one of my son's crayons for a size comparison.

LOL as Im typeing this I hear another baby crying in the bator Im gonna have buttons comeing out my ears ,
there seem to be 3 yellow , 3 butterscotches yellow, one chocolate colored, a black and some with stirripes.

I think the cortunix baby died , his beak isnt moveing in the pip and its all brown looking.

It wasnt another button it was a cortunix quail , one hatched one halfway zipped and two pips and then the one thats dead.