Removal of chicks delayed, Problem?

[quailmale]

I have read about getting the chicks out of the hatcher to eat and drink
I have a gqf hatcher I live alone when my chicks start to
Hatch I probably won't be home for up to several hours depending
On when they start till I get home from work. How big a problem is this if at all.
Thanks

Dan




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changed name from missfire to match Game permit

 

[Stellar]

It shouldn't be a problem. It's like going to bed and waking up 7-8 hours later. The babies will be there, if not more

 

[chickened]

They can live up to 3 days off the absorbed yolk sac. I take mine out after 24 hours or so. What doesn't hatch in 24 to 36 hours from the first hatch usually gets tossed as bacteria prevention mostly.

 

[Stellar]

Quote:
chicken chicks can, but not quail. Quail don't have all the reserves like chicken.

 

[joe125]

Quote:
chicken chicks can, but not quail. Quail don't have all the reserves like chicken.

Agreed! Chicken folk should not be able post in the quail section. They are chickens after all!

I love the chicken folks, but you don't really know what you are talking about....Please move along

 

[quailmale]

Thanks I feel better now, the chicks are Ga. Giants and Jumbo Cort. and 5 days later 6 RP turkeys--I hope. Thanks again.

Dan

 

[Stellar]

And then more jumbos should be shipping this week

Your babies should be fine

 

[quailmale]

Thanks looking forward to getting them
I have jumped off the real deeeeep end
In a week and a half I have gone from zero anything
In a new bator to 6 turkey eggs and by the
End of this week 320 quail eggs. Someone please
Stop me I'm consumed by the Hatching sickness.

Dan

 

[Bribaby]

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320 eggs?! LOL wow, I thought I was bad... we picked up a few (24) quails off CL... I read up on them, built an incubator, and then bought 150 eggs, plus the 40+ eggs the quails had laid... now I'm just impatiently waiting for them to hatch

quails are "kind of" addicting!

 

[chickened]

Really? what happens to the yolk?
Quote:
chicken chicks can, but not quail. Quail don't have all the reserves like chicken.