New baby coturnix! Color identification?

[wowlss]

I’ve had two of two hatch out of a homemade incubator! What color will the dark one be as an adult? The mother is a light colored wild type and the father was a wild type or a tuxedo.

I’ve been having luck using a heat pad with a towel on top in the brooder. Much safer than a heat lamp.

 

[Erkenstein]

Very cute. The dark one looks like it'll turn out as standard (wild) colors.

Congratulations on hatching them with a DIY incubator! Did you only incubate two eggs?

The heating pad might be okay when they are tiny, but you might feel different as they start getting bigger and messier. If you've mounted it on the side, maybe that will work out, but I don't see how it would work underneath them.

In what way is a heat lamp dangerous for them? If they can regulate their temperature by moving in and out of the heat zone, they generally don't have any problems.

 

[wowlss]

I want sure if she was a wild type because her little legs are so dark and her skin was mostly black when she hatched. Thank you!

The heat pad is set up like the mother brooder on here. I incubated five of the first eggs my quail laid. Only two turned out fertile but they both hatched out. I also three grocery store fertile eggs but only one made it to pipping and then it didn’t progress.

The clamp for the heat lamp I have can’t attach properly to the side of the brooder and I have no other way to secure it. It’s warm under the heat pad, 90-91 according to my thermometer and they have the rest of the brooder to run around in.