First Time with Quail and its hatching day!

[Everlong]

Well, no good news. One died I had setup a live camera to see him and left for the weekend. Last two days he was running around, drinking fine, Started eating all the small stuff that I ground. Checked on him yesterday night he was running around the brooder and seemed fluffy. BTW my parents are home and they were changing water , checking on him etc...
Checked the feed today and he was lying down. Called the house and she said he is breathing so I thought he was sleeping. Well, two hours later he is stiff.

 

[Binki]

Thank you and you're very welcome preciouseureka

Awww I'm sorry to hear about your chick Everlong was that the one you had to help from the shell? If so, it may have died from complications of that rough hatch, possibly an infection like I mentioned? I'm not sure how fast they take, just an idea...

I would suggest you get a red heat bulb instead of the white one, it can make babies cranky (and aggressive!) since there's never any darkness

Mine do great pecking around under a red one, it's also dimmable so I don't have to change the height, pretty sure it's the pet smart living world dimmable heat lamp for like 20 bucks

Also I hear that red light prevents pecking at any wounds since birds go for red and the red light doesn't make this apparent

 

[Everlong]

Will do!!! just dropped 7 more eggs into the bator

Found a heat lamp at my local home depot here, 175Watts? That seems too extreme to me, no?

 

[Binki]

Ooo exciting, quail eggs? I just set some Saturday evening, they're supposed to be jumbo up to 13 ounce females but we will see!! Hehe

I don't know too much about them but since it's not dimmable, seems like 175 watts could be overkill xD not sure!

This is probably the one I have but mine is older, hehe it's the same thing though - a heat lamp fixture with a dimmable dial on the cord with a clamp, it's easy to suspend over my brooder (I put a wooden couple inch board over the corner of the brooder and clamp it to it so the black cover [which is cool to the touch even at full blast] is hovering like 6" above the ground there) and lower the intensity of the red heat light as they get more feathered

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[Everlong]

This is what 175 Watts + Quails would look like

 

[Binki]

LOL

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[Binki]

Oh here's how I helped one out of its shell when I had a humidity issue and the exposed membrane had changed color indicating it had dried -

Hot water on a paper towel or two, by the time you get to the egg it will be cooler, wet but not dripping, take out the egg quickly, wrap it mostly in the warm and damp paper towel and gently dab the exposed membrane for a few minutes.

Pick off a zip line of shell from where the chick pipped (I looked this up online) being very careful not to damage the membrane and put it back in the incubator still mostly wrapped up (but not very tight, more like a sideways cup, you want it to hatch itself) with the initial dried up exposed membrane side facing out of the paper towel, keeping in mind this will bump up your overall incubator humidity until the towel dries out...

If all goes well, the chick will be strong enough to safely proceed as normal with a wet membrane and a bit of help with the zipping. I only had to do it once and it worked and the chick survived fine so I don't have much experience but it could help in the future!