Incubating and discouraged

[Sara L]

YOU GUYS!!! One pipped! One of my eggs.
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Yay! Congrats on the pip! You'll have quail babies in no time

 

[RosieR]

Yay! Congrats on the pip! You'll have quail babies in no time

I guess I’d better turn my brooder on!

 

[Sara L]

I guess I’d better turn my brooder on!

Probably a good idea. They like to hatch together, so there will probably be a few hatching all at once.

 

[RosieR]

Probably a good idea. They like to hatch together, so there will probably be a few hatching all at once.

How long from pip to zip typically? He’s chirping away in there, hopefully any other chickies get the memo lol

 

[le_bwah]

Could be hours, could be a day; gotta absorb that yolk. They'll come out in their own good time (hopefully soon!).

 

[RosieR]

Could be hours, could be a day; gotta absorb that yolk. They'll come out in their own good time (hopefully soon!).

This makes me so happy, even if the hatch doesn’t turn out great. I had to cull an extra roo today so I was feeling pretty down. He was harassing the girls pretty hard and getting beat up by my resident roo in the process. Everyone was missing neck feathers except “Roopert” lol

 

[cosmosue]

YAY!

 

[cosmosue]

Seriously I’ve had some pip and take 36 HOURS! Lol!

Could be hours, could be a day; gotta absorb that yolk. They'll come out in their own good time (hopefully soon!).

 

[RosieR]

Seriously I’ve had some pip and take 36 HOURS! Lol!

Oh please no! I couldn’t even handle that lol

 

[cosmosue]

With my Hovabator they all pipped (almost all) on day 16, by the night of the 17th day I had just gotten home from a big event, checked incubator nothing - not even movement so I thought Day 18 then.

But about an hour later (I was sooo tired) I heard peeping and I thought wow my other babies are loud tonight...

I work in a home office also where all my quail things happen lol so there is brooders and incubators all over the office...

Then I realized the peeping was coming from INSIDE the incubator and I jumped up to find like 6-8 babies had hatched and I didn’t even notice LOL within another hour almost half had hatched (I had 41 in there) by 2am all but 5 were out. I had to move them to the brooder... the next day 2 more came and the other 3 had passed already. I had stayed up all night (I do that when there is hatching) and even slept on the office floor! LOL

It was a long night... good Hatch though I’ll never forget that one!