First time hatching Buttons.....

[chickenlady81]

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Im waiting for 8 to hatch but I dont know if all 8 grew cause I dont have a way to candle them! ..they are soooo small!

 

[chickenlady81]

Here are the pips in the eggs....C'mon buttons!!!

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Well, I didn't bother candling mine, there are so many and it doesn't take long to hatch quail eggs. Compared to my ducks sitting for over a mmonth. But if you have a small LED light (a really bright small flashlight) you can shine it through the top of the egg (without touching the egg) to see if it shines through. If it does, then nobodys' home. If it doesn't then you have a fertile egg. But you still don't know if its still growing. So what's the point. I wait.

But not this time, info is for next time you hatch. Ours are locked down now so no opening the incubator. Besides, the hatch is eminent. We'll both find out today or tomorrow what we have. I like anticipation, as long as there are no eggs exploding. I have not had that happen with chicken eggs. But I almost did with a duck egg, once. I just had to see why it didn't hatch, I tapes it and it poped all over the place and stunk to high heaven. Snow White, the mother duck) was probably laughing at me. I know she left that egg in the nest just to get me.

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Oh, cool. Yep those are pips. How long since you first saw the pips.

 

[chickenlady81]

Dont you think the pips are at a weird spot?

 

[chickenlady81]

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When I came home today around 3 i saw them...so since 3:00 atleast? How long does it usually take?

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Well I missed my 1st one out about Noon. Then a few hours later, we saw several rocking, I have bad hearing so I don't hear them calling at all. I now have 5 hatched, so about 7 hours.

Yes, that one is trying to pip out the bottom. Where there probably is no air sack. The other is about right.

I left mine in the turning trays and just set them on the bottom of the cage. But I think I have way to many in there. These isn't much room for them to move around. So they are walking all over the top of the eggs. I 'll have to watch real close for leg and toe problems.

Wish someone with experience would chime in with advice for your pips. I don't think its been that long to worry yet. But the one trying to pip at the bottom of the egg, bothers me. On my chicks, I sometimes help them out.

Are they still rocking and rolling arould?

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I don't know who you heard that from, but if quail don't eat the first day, they are usually dead the second. They can't survive much more than 24 hours without food.

 

[chickenlady81]

Five are out and running around eating and drinking!

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Cool. Any action on your other three?

I just checked mine and they are starting to hatch again, 2 more for me, a lot still to go.

I've been wondering how yours were doing. You've got some pretty babies.

I'll try to get my DH to load a picture of mine on my thread now their in the brooder. He took a video but not a still picture.