ellieV03
Hatching
- Aug 23, 2023
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Hi everyone,
my quail hatched four chicks two days ago and they are doing great; but she was brooding six eggs and when the four I mentioned before hatched she just left the nest.
So I took the other two eggs since she was ignoring them, I looked at them through light and saw that they were developing like the other four.
One of them seems to have a fully formed chick, you can clearly see the beak and the little feet and the second one seems to be in a previous stage of developing (I think she laid that egg later in time) but it still has some red veins in it.
I kept both of the eggs warm for the past two days, but in both there doesn't seem to be any movement and I'm not sure if I should keep going with them.
How do I know if the chicks are actually alive in the eggs?
And when do I decide it's not worth to keep trying to hatch them?
my quail hatched four chicks two days ago and they are doing great; but she was brooding six eggs and when the four I mentioned before hatched she just left the nest.
So I took the other two eggs since she was ignoring them, I looked at them through light and saw that they were developing like the other four.
One of them seems to have a fully formed chick, you can clearly see the beak and the little feet and the second one seems to be in a previous stage of developing (I think she laid that egg later in time) but it still has some red veins in it.
I kept both of the eggs warm for the past two days, but in both there doesn't seem to be any movement and I'm not sure if I should keep going with them.
How do I know if the chicks are actually alive in the eggs?
And when do I decide it's not worth to keep trying to hatch them?