July 2022 Hatch-A-Long

[OzarkCountryGirl]

@OzarkCountryGirl I might send you a picture of my guinea male and see if you can tell me what type he is. My hen just died about 4 weeks ago, so I have three guinea eggs in the bator due on Sunday, but they're a bit farther behind in development - Overstuffed incubator + outside edge of the bator. Probably a week and half/two weeks until hatching (In my two time experience with chickens, one experience with goose, and zero experience with guinea incubation. My gut feelings don't do so well with the bator. )

Aw, sorry about your Guinea hen.

I think the eggs will do okay, though. Guineas take a little longer to hatch anyway (typically 25 to 28 days), and after the chicken eggs all hatch, you'll be able to up the humidity a little more for them...they tend to have harder shells and tougher membranes than chicken eggs.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

My crew

Beautiful babies!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Yeah, the 4 silvers weren't in a divider, just sitting on shelf liner, but yes, every single one of them has hopped out of the baskets now So much for my brilliant idea to keep them separated. Up to 3/6 bbs now (the others are all pipped!), 2/4 silvers (still don't think the other 2 are pipped, but I'm hopeful), and 5/6 wheatens (the last one is widening its pip hole some more, but taking lots of breaks. Might be a while). But I'm IN LOVE with the Silver babies!! They're tiny and ADORABLE and seem so sweet! I'll post pics of them in a bit. Had to take a break from bator watching to let my back relax. I think my favorite baby (aside from the silvers) is the little splash though- she's so calm and cute and sweet. She's got a sweet, dainty little voice. I just love her Here's a pic of a cuddle puddle I took a little while ago:
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The 2 silvers are on the far right and the splash is on the far left. Such sweet lil cuties!!!

Congrats on all your new littles! Can’t wait to see them all fluffed up. I’ve never seen Silver Ameraucana before.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I'm in love with all the colours!! And that little splash....omgosh!!!

I was so hoping the divider boxes worked...looks like I'm resolved to using netted zip-close lingerie bags if I'm needing to keep them separated.

This is what I use to separate eggs from for example different hens or different breeds that looks similar as chicks. They are embroidery cards that I cut down to fit inside the incubator attached with small zip ties.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

7 keets so far. Six in the brooder box, and one just hatched in the incubator with more eggs pipping. I usually don't remove chicks from the incubator before all the pipping eggs hatch, but the first one hatched early sometime Fiday morning and would have been starving by now if I hadn't transferred it to the brooder with feed/water, and I transferred early Saturday's and Sunday's keets this morning.

And I've got another full incubator on lockdown, due to to hatch tomorrow, and quail eggs are set to hatch Monday next. What was I thinking?!

Congrats!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

My crew

Oh they are so gorgeous!!!

This is what I use to separate eggs from for example different hens or different breeds that looks similar as chicks. They are embroidery cards that I cut down to fit inside the incubator attached with small zip ties.View attachment 3191518

What's the purpose of separation? Is it to keep the breeds together?
Cuz at first I thought yall were meaning to keep.em from bumping unhatched eggs...but that doesn't make sense after seeing your pic.

 

[ivy_huan]

Aww..sorry about the quail.
Nice that the chicks are doing well, though.

Yea I was pretty sad yesterday ... I think I only got 6 hatch out of 12 eggs and lost one but now chickens are popping out. Hopefully they go smoothly

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Yeah, the 4 silvers weren't in a divider, just sitting on shelf liner, but yes, every single one of them has hopped out of the baskets now So much for my brilliant idea to keep them separated. Up to 3/6 bbs now (the others are all pipped!), 2/4 silvers (still don't think the other 2 are pipped, but I'm hopeful), and 5/6 wheatens (the last one is widening its pip hole some more, but taking lots of breaks. Might be a while). But I'm IN LOVE with the Silver babies!! They're tiny and ADORABLE and seem so sweet! I'll post pics of them in a bit. Had to take a break from bator watching to let my back relax. I think my favorite baby (aside from the silvers) is the little splash though- she's so calm and cute and sweet. She's got a sweet, dainty little voice. I just love her Here's a pic of a cuddle puddle I took a little while ago:
View attachment 3191420
The 2 silvers are on the far right and the splash is on the far left. Such sweet lil cuties!!!

Such sweet lil cuddle pudde!

7 keets so far. Six in the brooder box, and one just hatched in the incubator with more eggs pipping. I usually don't remove chicks from the incubator before all the pipping eggs hatch, but the first one hatched early sometime Fiday morning and would have been starving by now if I hadn't transferred it to the brooder with feed/water, and I transferred early Saturday's and Sunday's keets this morning.

And I've got another full incubator on lockdown, due to to hatch tomorrow, and quail eggs are set to hatch Monday next. What was I thinking?!

Congratulations!!!

 

[ivy_huan]

Do you raise quail for meat or pets?

Meat n eggs
But next year I'm planning on build them an enclosure and run
I have a quail coop already but would like to make a better one

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Oh they are so gorgeous!!!

What's the purpose of separation? Is it to keep the breeds together?
Cuz at first I thought yall were meaning to keep.em from bumping unhatched eggs...but that doesn't make sense after seeing your pic.

It’s if you want to know which chicks hatched from which eggs, if all the the eggs look very similar. For example if I want to know which chicks came from which of my hens, assuming I can tell their eggs apart! Also if you have chicks from different breeds that all look similar than you can tell which ones are which. Hope this makes sense! Example is when I was hatching Polkies and Silkies, which look almost identical at hatch, and I wanted to make sure I was selling the right chicks to the right customer.