My button chicks, and the last chicks from my coturnix massacre

[FloorCandy]

My chicks hatched this weekend, and boy are buttons TINY!!! I got a total of 17 from 36 shipped eggs. I think I broke 1 egg candling them before I set them, then the turner broke 4, I had to remove the shelf liner, it made too much traction for the buttons and the resistance smashed them right up. Once I took out the liner they turned fine with no issues. I had the last of my celadon eggs from the cages that were invaded and the birds massacred. I had set all the eggs, even weird shaped, filthy, odd shelled ones lol, plus all my fridge eggs, and I’m gonna say at least 15 popped in the bator, and I had to spot clean like 6 times, but I put in anything I thought had a chance at all. I believe I ended up with 12 or 13 cots.

Here are the pics:
I put in 1 cot chick for the picture, to give size reference.

Here are my cots, several snowies and pearls. Unfortunately, I had moved some into the cages from the grow out, and it hadn’t been 2 weeks (more like 4 days), so I can’t be sure they’re all celadons, they could have been mated by the k dales before they were moved, so any males I keep will need to be tested, but I have all winter to work on that.

I have a few fakers:

 

[kurby22]

My chicks hatched this weekend, and boy are buttons TINY!!! I got a total of 17 from 36 shipped eggs. I think I broke 1 egg candling them before I set them, then the turner broke 4, I had to remove the shelf liner, it made too much traction for the buttons and the resistance smashed them right up. Once I took out the liner they turned fine with no issues. I had the last of my celadon eggs from the cages that were invaded and the birds massacred. I had set all the eggs, even weird shaped, filthy, odd shelled ones lol, plus all my fridge eggs, and I’m gonna say at least 15 popped in the bator, and I had to spot clean like 6 times, but I put in anything I thought had a chance at all. I believe I ended up with 12 or 13 cots.

Here are the pics:
I put in 1 cot chick for the picture, to give size reference.
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Here are my cots, several snowies and pearls. Unfortunately, I had moved some into the cages from the grow out, and it hadn’t been 2 weeks (more like 4 days), so I can’t be sure they’re all celadons, they could have been mated by the k dales before they were moved, so any males I keep will need to be tested, but I have all winter to work on that.

I have a few fakers:
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Looks like you had some pretty great hatch rates! I'm glad to see that for you! I am not sure I can fully comprehend how tiny those buttons must be if they are that much smaller than a cot chick!! How fun though! I hope you got lucky and got mostly celadons so you don't have to start that all over again too! I opted to take the winter off of hatching and such...it's nice having my bathtub back haha. You will have to post more pics as the buttons feather out!

 

[ButtonHoarder]

Yay! Did the blue button eggs hatch?

 

[FloorCandy]

Yay! Did the blue button eggs hatch?

One hatched, dragged itself out and never got up, it was dead, laying on its belly looking freshly hatched.

 

[ButtonHoarder]

One hatched, dragged itself out and never got up, it was dead, laying on its belly looking freshly hatched.

Oh, I’m sorry

 

[FloorCandy]

I’m going to show the progress from chicks to adults, if I can keep up with it.

1. This one looks the most like Darth Vader chicks that Ive seen. I banded it green.

This is the rest that look similar:

2. Similar look, I banded it purple:

3. I banded this one pink:

4. This one is darker, I banded it orange:

5. Another dark one, purple and green bands:

6. Another lighter one, pink and orange bands:

7. this is the last of this group, purple and orange:

I’ll make another post later for the next color group.

 

[FloorCandy]

Here are the solid colors, 2 black and 1 yellow. I’m guessing the black are blue face, the yellow might be white or splash, idk, I wasn’t expecting any white. Of course, yellow got wet running away from me trying to catch it for the pic.

 

[FloorCandy]

Some updated pics, I lost 2 slate chicks a few days ago, they suddenly splayed and faded away. The third is small, but seems ok, I had put the shelf liner back in when they splayed, and only one corrected, I believe the slate chicks had some kind of internal deficiency, and were weakening and couldn’t stand straight. I removed the liner today because they were burrowing under it haha.

I set my new eggs today, I ordered 18 blue face, 18 darth Vader, and 18 cinnamon red breasted, but last time I got a wide variety despite what I ordered, so we will see what I get. The USPS looks to have hit my box with a car, 3 eggs were crushed, I’m not sure how shaken the rest were. Fingers crossed

 

[ButtonHoarder]

I love blue face! (And all of them)

 

[FloorCandy]

Yay! Did the blue button eggs hatch?

I have a few blues among the new eggs, fingers crossed