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[Cluckington palace]

All my quail hatched on Tuesday and Wednesday and today we decided to turn the incubator off. We managed to drop an egg and it was alive, it was partially covered in blood. It seems to be getting a little stronger but I’m not sure what to do.

 

[TesoroSena]

Can you send picture? It may just have blood veins, but a picture would help me tell better.

 

[Cluckington palace]

Can you send picture? It may just have blood veins, but a picture would help me tell better.

It’s moving around a little

 

[TesoroSena]

It looks perfectly normal! Th e chick is just getting used to not being cramped, and the blood is perfectly fine for now. Make sure that chick is warm and has ample humidity until it dries out and is walking.

 

[TesoroSena]

Blood thing looks like the umbilical cord.

 

[muddy75]

It’s moving around a little

All you can do is just leave it in the incubator and monitor. I usually wait at least 48 hours after last hatch before final candle-check. Incubators can have cold and hot spots attributing to wide variations in hatch times. There is a high probability that this guy may not make it, but same is true if you had let the incubator keep running and he was that delayed. Good luck!

 

[Cluckington palace]

It looks perfectly normal! Th e chick is just getting used to not being cramped, and the blood is perfectly fine for now. Make sure that chick is warm and has ample humidity until it dries out and is walking.

Thank you in new to keeping quail does that foot look ok

 

[TesoroSena]

I think so, any particular reason to ask?

 

[BarnyardChaos]

Thank you in new to keeping quail does that foot look ok

I don't know quail at all, but in a chicken chick, that's perfectly normal for a brand-new hatched chick. Once it's dried off and is trying to walk, it should straighten out in a day or two.

 

[Cluckington palace]

I think so, any particular reason to ask?

It just looks tightly held together and I’ve never hatched chicks using and incubator I have always used a hen