january hatch-a-long

[Kiki]

One of my baby quail hatched with curled toes goes is there any way to fix it's toes.

Have they straightened out on their own yet? I find they usually do.

 

[Matieus27]

So my wife gave me another green light today I get to get some quail eggs and hatch them YAY

 

[Tatuana]

It's become like an addiction for me

Yes! I see all the cute baby pictures and I want one of my own. I admit, part of it is greed... There's supposed to be a Silkie and Phoenix as well as Polish. I want them to survive and hatch. I've no idea what I actually have alive. (Mostly the brown eggs)

My day is now wake up, flip eggs. locate Cat 1. Haul her over to the table and check the fang wound in her armpit. Wash up, locate Cat 2. Clean very deep and infected fang wound in his head. Clean up again, realize two hours have passed. Locate Cat 3, take him out to pee/poo (kidneys are shot), feed him. Time to flip the eggs. Two hours have passed since I woke up. Have to check the cats again.

I've now taken up hiding with the eggs so I can sit. As a result I talk to them a lot. I think I'm going loony. My cat also sits with them and purrs. The babies are going to come out of their shells thinking that their mama is a human that purrs!

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

Have they straightened out on their own yet? I find they usually do.

yes they mostly straightened but I just found the baby quail dead. It's neck was tilted to one side like it was in the egg. It figured out how to drink water with it's stiff neck but i dont think it could eat.

 

[alexa009]

I am disappointed my pullets haven't begun laying yet, I would be ready to incubate their eggs immediately. I would be planning on breeding my Easter Egger pullets with my Black Copper Maran rooster.

yes they mostly straightened but I just found the baby quail dead. It's neck was tilted to one side like it was in the egg. It figured out how to drink water with it's stiff neck but i dont think it could eat.

I am so sorry for your loss! Are the others recovering at all?

 

[Chirehe]

yes they mostly straightened but I just found the baby quail dead. It's neck was tilted to one side like it was in the egg. It figured out how to drink water with it's stiff neck but i dont think it could eat.

Oh no poor baby! I’m so sorry for your loss!

 

[Chirehe]

I almost have a 100% hatch rate (besides the one I lost on day 7) but everyone who made to lockdown besides one who was backwards and piped at the smaller end and I thought it was a goner at first with no movement in two days but this morning more of the shell was cracked open and by this afternoon it’s managed to completely turn itself around and piped at the top for my first hatch I’m really happy!

 

[Tatuana]

I think you have the same incubator and most people swear by them so I'm doing heaps of searching now to see if I can find any tricks on how to stabilize it, ran great for the first 10 days then I think the water dried out and the temperature went mad.

I do have the same one. I missed your comment about that, sorry! I found that the heat will jump a bit depending on the humidity. I don't think it should go THAT high, though. For water I found three aspirin caps I've never used. I filled them up with water and put those in. You can keep them very full, so the water lasts ages. And it seems to keep the humidity at about what I want. I think it's also helping the heat stay the same as well. Without water mine seems to weirdly go lower. If you figure it out, let me know. I always like learning.

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

I am disappointed my pullets haven't begun laying yet, I would be ready to incubate their eggs immediately. I would be planning on breeding my Easter Egger pullets with my Black Copper Maran rooster.


I am so sorry for your loss! Are the others recovering at all?

all my other baby quail are healthy.

 

[BReeder!]

yes they mostly straightened but I just found the baby quail dead. It's neck was tilted to one side like it was in the egg. It figured out how to drink water with it's stiff neck but i dont think it could eat.