Quail hatch along! (with my own bodyheat)

[Nibbles and wiggles]

Could you candle it to see if there is any movement? I’m not sure if that would cause more damage though, might be best to just leave them in your incubator.

I did go under a blanket this morning and candle them. neither have an internal pip but both are completely dark (besides the air cell) which is further development from day 14 when I last candled

 

[Squawkers]

It was floating low in the water and once it was still it didn't wiggle, per say but it was completely still the kind of rotated a little bit then spun slowly for a second til it naturally slowed down. I'm not really sure what any of that means though..

I’ve only done an egg test once or twice and I don’t really remember. This should help!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...iability-for-late-or-overdue-hatching.383525/

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

My mom says I can try to use her old fetal heart doppler (for people babies), so I'm gonna try that later today. I want to wait til tommorow to try anything invasive.

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

Would putting aloe gel on the shell hurt them?

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

The doppler thingy didn't show a heartbeat:_(
I think I'll wait until tommorow morning (day 20) then break into the air cell to check if the babies are okay. I'm thinking they aren't but I want to check just to make sure.

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

Bad news. I open the eggs this morning and both babies were gone. Looks like they stopped developing several days ago, but were grown enough that they had all there external structures looking like birds.

Thank you all for your encouragement and advice with this. Just wasn't meant to be this time.

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

*GRAPHIC PICTURE WARNING*
if anyone can look at these and see a possible reason they died, just so I can know and try to fix it in the future.

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

These are both the babies

 

[Squawkers]

I’m sorry. You got sooooo close though! Do you think you will try again?

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

I’m sorry. You got sooooo close though! Do you think you will try again?

I definitely want to someday, but the quail have stopped laying with the colder weather so I'm not sure when we'll be getting eggs again.