My first Quail. A mini blog.

[pac]

And here's hoping for at least eight more by tomorrow!

But I'm still going to order another batch.
I'm going to order from a different source and have them shipped to my sister. That means only one USPS facility will be the same.

Cause something isn't right with all these broken and scrambled eggs I'm getting.

 

[pac]

I ordered some more eggs last night after a brief discussion with the seller. These will be traveling a different way to me. 48 eggs. Yowzah. My incubator doesn't even hold 48 eggs. Looks like I'll be choosing some to eat.

Meanwhile, pretty slow day today.
I grabbed an egg to candle about an hour ago and it was pipped! I quickly put it back in and grabbed another. Putting the lid back on.
That one appeared to be all liquid with very little air pocket. So I recorded the one pipping for a while and when I stopped I saw another egg that had a series of tiny cracks all in the right spot, but wasn't quite pipped.

Fingers crossed for more chicks. I feel sorry for the one without any company. And the more chicks the more chance of hitting a good ratio.

 

[pac]

Interesting. I would have thought he would have broken out more by now. Started unzipping or something. But you can see its beak through the hole breathing and I'm guessing yelling, Get me the heck out of here.

 

[pac]

I found a thread here from 2010. There seemed to be a lot of quail people here back then. As most of my Google searches produce older threads from here several pages long.

General consensus was leave it be. The people who had helped a chick hatch ended up losing them anyway. And some folks were saying it can take a few hours or a full day to hatch after pipping.

Well, my guy died. I could see it's beak this morning and it wasn't breathing. And the egg that had the small cluster of cracks outward had no change.

And here I thought I was going to have several more hatchlings this morning.

 

[pac]

Well, I'm not seeing its beak sticking out a little anymore. Now I am seeing this

 

[Nabiki]

Well, I'm not seeing its beak sticking out a little anymore. Now I am seeing this
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That one is either dead or in need of assistance. As you already mentioned, though, assisting comes with its own risks. Usually if a chick has problems hatching it's for reasons.

 

[pac]

Then I'm guessing after this long, 4 out of 36 with 8 arriving broken.

Right now I would love a 50% hatch.

 

[FatherFalcon]

I found a thread here from 2010. There seemed to be a lot of quail people here back then. As most of my Google searches produce older threads from here several pages long.

General consensus was leave it be. The people who had helped a chick hatch ended up losing them anyway. And some folks were saying it can take a few hours or a full day to hatch after pipping.

Well, my guy died. I could see it's beak this morning and it wasn't breathing. And the egg that had the small cluster of cracks outward had no change.

And here I thought I was going to have several more hatchlings this morning.

I use these as a temp shell if I did any assisted pecking, poke a small hole in the lid and toss'm back in the incubator if they look like they need more time.

 

[pac]

I use these as a temp shell if I did any assisted pecking, poke a small hole in the lid and toss'm back in the incubator if they look like they need more time.
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What does that do, give them more humidity to soften the shell?