PayPal/Hatching Eggs/Chicks Swap

[CelticOaksFarm]

Quote: thanks now I gotta figure out the secret to hatching buttons lol

 

[reesepoultry]

thanks now I gotta figure out the secret to hatching buttons lol

They are easy to hatch just hard to keep alive. You have to make there food into powder like consistancy. No pine shavings for 2-3 weeks. Only on paper towel or something like that. Better to have a dark area for them so they don't peck each other.

 

[Bettacreek]

What Reese said. Hatch like you do chickens. Seems like it's impossible to kill them in the egg. But, once they hatch, they're delicate. I don't powder my food, I just feed crumble. They probably waste more though. Make sure they have absolutely no way to drown themselves!

 

[reesepoultry]

What Reese said. Hatch like you do chickens. Seems like it's impossible to kill them in the egg. But, once they hatch, they're delicate. I don't powder my food, I just feed crumble. They probably waste more though. Make sure they have absolutely no way to drown themselves!

Yep, forgot about the drowning. They manage to do that very easily. You are better to use a very shallow lid.

 

[caj1985]

What Reese said. Hatch like you do chickens. Seems like it's impossible to kill them in the egg. But, once they hatch, they're delicate. I don't powder my food, I just feed crumble. They probably waste more though. Make sure they have absolutely no way to drown themselves!

I found with the two sets that I hatched that the fermented chick feed was great for the buttons and the cots because it was soft and they had no difficulty eating it. I actually fed and watered mine from baby food jar lids as I only had one quail waterer and the older ones were using it. LOL All the quail seemed to want to stand in the water dishes. With the fermented wet feed I didn't have to worry so much about the water.

edited for spelling

 

[Bettacreek]

Do you start them on it from day one? I've been starting everyone on dry crumble for the first few days, then switching to fermented mash. It'd be awesome if I could completely skip crumble and feed EVERYONE the fermented mash!

 

[caj1985]

Do you start them on it from day one? I've been starting everyone on dry crumble for the first few days, then switching to fermented mash. It'd be awesome if I could completely skip crumble and feed EVERYONE the fermented mash!

Day one mine went on the fermented crumble. I did sprinkle a little dry on the paper towels just to give them something to start pecking, but I do that with my chicks also. It seems to get them motivated to move around looking for food.

 

[caj1985]

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[reesepoultry]

Do you start them on it from day one? I've been starting everyone on dry crumble for the first few days, then switching to fermented mash. It'd be awesome if I could completely skip crumble and feed EVERYONE the fermented mash!

I feed mine the formented feed from day one. it works great. but I know most don't feed formented.

 

[Bettacreek]

You guys are awesome! Thanks!

And I apologize, I thought I was on the chat thread. :/