Awesome! They seem bigger than the other pics I’ve seen of of quail hatchlings?
I’m not patient enough to just leave the hatchlings for days while the others hatch, but I usually just get them out once a day, to keep the humidity up for the rest of the eggs. However, last summer I saved a huge clutch of guinea eggs contaminated with broken eggs and smelling unspeakably bad. It was also an incredibly staggered hatch, a few a day for weeks! So, when I saw that one was hatching, I’d grab it as it was emerging, egg and all, so that the keet wouldn’t get into the nastiness coating the other eggs. I must say, it was so so cool to have that egg hatch in my hand! I had a typical heat light setup brooder with a small box on a heating pad that I’d put the hatchling in to dry off and recover before meeting it’s older siblings. I expected a lot of problems with this technique, but it actually went very well! Today though, I’m back to keeping the incubator closed until the end of the day...
Probably because they are up close pics
for this hatch. A difference from our last hatches is I switched out the top unit from the ancient relic of an incubator for another one. This new top unit seems to be maintaining temperature much better without constant heat spikes.
Looking pretty tiny right there!!! Quail are such adorable chicks... are they called chicks?
