Hatching Quail Question.... anyone do it?

[Sill]

Quail grow so fast that by the time the last hatch the first ones will be a lot bigger and can out-compete them at the food and water stations and can pick on the smaller ones. It's easier to raise them when they are all one age.

 

[mtgrl]

True. Of course, that depends a lot on how many you have. The first two quail that I hatched were 5 days apart, but by the second day you could barely tell the difference between them. The last batch of 7 that hatched were born within hours of each other, but the youngest ones are still about half the size of the oldest one, I guess just because of that slight head start. Mine don't pick on each other, though, not after the first day or two. Interestingly, I put the eggs in all on different days, but they all decided to hatch on the same day. I wonder if hearing the others hatched just triggered something in them...

 

[sniper338]

Ive had a good hatch now... i lost count of how many hatched... ive had 10 to 14 hatch everyday for the last week... i got plenty future kabobs to grow out!!