Seriously, like, what the hey?! Quail just not for me?!

[Bettacreek]

I doubt it. They're so darn old that they're in tatters now, lol. I just let them live together because they never hurt each other and they seem so peaceful together in a nice planted spawn tank, lol.

As for quail, why do I seem to be so darned accident-prone then? Like, who else would lock themselves out with the eggs in tow, then blow a bulb, restore the bulb and then get power knocked out shortly after, all in that short time-frame and with the same set of chicks/eggs?! *Sigh* That's the story of my life... Lol. They should rename Murphy's Law to Lindsey's Law.

 

[monarc23]

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lol you just need a big hug and a pat on the back it'll get better

Have you done the dreaded drop an egg yet? LOL.....I HAVE I HAVE! that makes ya feel like doo doo too lol.

 

[Bettacreek]

Lol. No, not yet, but I'm sure I'll manage to do it often enough.

Probably be with almost ready to hatch eggs too, when I'm transfering them from the bator to the hatcher, that's how my luck runs, lol.

On one more good note, my whites seem to be liking their new cage, and have already figured out the water bottle.

Now I just have to figure out a rack system for these sterilite containers so that I can easily organize cages. I need to get my other buttons off the floor too, being 33 weeks pregnant makes it quite a bit difficult to work with anything on the floor, especially something as heavy as a slate bottomed, metal framed 20g long fish tank!

 

[ButtonQuailHeaven]

I use the metal shelves that you buy for storage in your garage and stack the sterilite containers 4 high on them. It works very nice for them. As far as using a hatcher make sure it is exactly the same conditions as your incubator. I have heard lots of people losing their Buttons on the day of transfer. They opened the unhatched shells and found them exactly at the day of growth that they were moved. They can be quite touchy.

 

[Bettacreek]

Thank you. What about humidity in the hatcher? I'm hoping to do staggered hatches, so I'll have eggs in different stages going into the incubator. Would a change of humidity kill the newly moved or the ones already in there?

 

[ButtonQuailHeaven]

I do not have experience with this myself as I leave them in the same bator for both. I believe people do up the humidity in there because that is what you want for hatching anyway.

 

[CrimsonRose]

Hugs!! I too have felt your pain! Hatching eggs is an art and a hard to perfect one at that!

Every hatch I've had has went horribly wrong so far... My first hatch I didn't know to leave the lid closed and only hatched 6 out of 60! I helped one out of his shell and he wasn't finished absorbing the yolk! I thought he was deformed so I had hubby cull him... then a few weeks later the cat got in the house and killed all but 2

So then when the female finally started laying eggs I put them all into the bator each hatch (I would save up a week at a time to put in) would only hatch 1-2 eggs because of various disasters... my little girl got into the bator to get her some "balls" and had tossed them across the room! (Lucky my gal had hard shells and they only cracked instead of splattered)

Then another week I was sick with the flu so were the kids the house was a disaster! I had ordered another big batch of eggs and had all 70 in the bator! At the end of the week hubby tried to do something nice for me... we all took the family out that night to an antique auction house (I love it) and when I got home the house was spotless! Hubby had paid the neighbor lady to come in and clean the house for me...

But then I went in to turn the eggs and they were COLD! temp said 72... The lady had unplugged the bator to plug in the vaccume... they had been without heat for about 4-5 hours... I started to toss the eggs but only had one week left so I went ahead and plugged the bator back in... well then next morning I get up and the Temp spiked! it was 110

Some how 3 of those eggs still hatch! But 2 birds wasn't the kind I had ordered... I ordered A&M and I got one golden, one Tibetan, and one A&M and he was the runt out of the 3!

This last hatch our electric went out! so for an hour waiting for it to return I put a candle in the bator and opened a few vent holes I was able to keep the temp around 85 finally when I realized it wasn't coming back on we drove it into my moms house... it was 80 by the time we got there... But I still got 14 out of 20 to hatch! Best hatch yet! only downfall is that my stupid sister took 4 birds

And my silly mom let her... saying that since I had so many she thought my sister could just have a few

So much for raising these guys for eggs and food for my family... And my mooch of a sister had the audacity to come out to my house to get food and bedding! because she is too dumb to know to go to the feed store...

and me being the softie (for the birds not her) I didn't want the babies to be fed the wrong food so I gave her some...

So you are not alone! When the weather warms up some more I'll be happy to send you a few Texas A&M eggs if you like (I also have a mutt pin with a golden and Tibetan in there) They make cute babies... Eventually you will get a flock going it just takes time... I'm just now getting a small flock and I've had my bator running nonstop since April of last year! But I have 29 in the bator now due to hatch the end of the month and they are all from my gals!

As for the eggs I've never had any of my quail lay an egg before 8 weeks some take 9 and I even put the light on them

So my 10 babies should start laying in 6 more weeks or 4 if I'm lucky but doubt it!

Hugs!

 

[monarc23]

awh i didnt know you're gonna be a mama again!!!

I cannot wait to be (totaally off subject but i go gushy when i see someone is preggers hehe)!

 

[Bettacreek]

Crimson, thank you for sharing your story, if you can do it and not give up, then I have to try harder too, lol.

Monarc, lol. Our son was a surprise baby, then I *had* to have another. I wanted them to be close together (about a year and a half) and I wanted an April baby. Now I don't know what the heck I was thinking, planning them THAT close, lol. Still can't figure out why hubby didn't convince me to wait...

 

[monarc23]

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lol! awhh i could see me wanting to do that too after m y first baby. Hubby says he only wants one....but i see how he melts when he see babies, he'll get one and be like "i want another!" LOL! I'd like atleast two. I was three years apart from my broh i think it would hav ebeen neat to have been closer in age....so i thikn you're doing a good thing ther e

LOL