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[bellaisa]

I can't get the video to upload but her is a picture of the first baby. Hopefully someone else hatches soon to keep it company.

How long should I leave it in the incubator?

 

[homeschoolin momma]

Then hatch a few lav orps to sell. Almost everyone on my waiting list wants a lav and a blue. They're always the 1st colors that sell out. (Even faster than the SLOs!) Maybe don't set a lot, but I'm sure lavs will sell.

I wouldn't mind setting lav orps, but it's hard to tell whose eggs are whose. With Blackbeard gone, my lav roo can cover all of them and I'll still get black /lav splits with him covering the black girls.

 

[homeschoolin momma]

I can't get the video to upload but her is a picture of the first baby. Hopefully someone else hatches soon to keep it company.

How long should I leave it in the incubator?View attachment 2099678

At least until they fluff up. I like to leave them in there until there's a buddy. Their creeping helps encourage the others to come. I've left chicks in for up to 24 hours. As long as they aren't playing kickball....

 

[Faraday40]

At least until they fluff up. I like to leave them in there until there's a buddy. Their creeping helps encourage the others to come. I've left chicks in for up to 24 hours. As long as they aren't playing kickball....

I'm sure you meant "cheeping" but I chuckled at the idea of little ninja chicks creeping around the incubator.

I would try to leave the chicks in there until they're all hatched or plan to open it only once a day.

 

[bellaisa]

I'm sure you meant "cheeping" but I chuckled at the idea of little ninja chicks creeping around the incubator.

I would try to leave the chicks in there until they're all hatched or plan to open it only once a day.

Hopefully someone else hatches soon. Surely with setting 14 eggs I will at least get two. It has been 4 1/2 hours since he hatched and still no friend.

 

[homeschoolin momma]

I'm sure you meant "cheeping" but I chuckled at the idea of little ninja chicks creeping around the incubator.

Bwaahaaa!!!!
Hiiiiyaahh! Get out of that egg and be my friend....if you dare...
Lol

 

[Faraday40]

We set up a brooder this morning. The quail continued to cry unless held, so I needed to invent a companion. A stuffed animal didn't work. I needed to quickly make a broody hen substitute on a very small scale using what I had available.

Here's my milk carton mama:


Paper towel and feathers glued inside & out.

There's a heating pad under the box so the little cave will hopefully trap some of it's body heat plus allow it to burrow down a little for extra warmth. It's not eating yet, but at least we got it quiet/content for now.

And here are some pics just for the cuteness.

@bellaisa
How's your hatch going?

 

[bellaisa]

Help I have a baby in the incubator who is attached to shell. Does she have a chance? What should I do see picture

 

[BReeder!]

We set up a brooder this morning. The quail continued to cry unless held, so I needed to invent a companion. A stuffed animal didn't work. I needed to quickly make a broody hen substitute on a very small scale using what I had available.

Here's my milk carton mama:
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Paper towel and feathers glued inside & out.
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There's a heating pad under the box so the little cave will hopefully trap some of it's body heat plus allow it to burrow down a little for extra warmth. It's not eating yet, but at least we got it quiet/content for now.View attachment 2100558

And here are some pics just for the cuteness.View attachment 2100570
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@bellaisa
How's your hatch going?

You may need to introduce the food by placing it's beak right into the food. Also, blending the food to a powder helps the first few days with quail chicks.
Is there a waterer in there?

 

[BReeder!]

Help I have a baby in the incubator who is attached to shell. Does she have a chance? What should I do see picture

How long has it been stuck?
Is that the yolk sac hanging from the shell in the picture?