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[Ravynscroft]

I had 26 recent hatches in the brooder and I now have 2. They just up and died. I enjoy looking at the little buggers but I ain't about stuff just up and dying. They looked great this mornIng and would be dead by dark baffled

Go to the thread "Getting the flock outta here - diary of a crazy chicken man" and ask ozexpat what it was that kept making all his quail die off in the brooders... I can't remember what it was, but I seem to remember it was something simple but deadly if left untreated, like Coccidiosis in chicks...

 

[chicapee]

@RubyNala97 sounds like you are having a great hatch. You really deserve it. It really goes to show the difference in quality of the eggs not your technique that was the problem on those last hatches. Looking forward to seeing the pictures.

 

[chicapee]

@RavynFallen adorable little chickies.

 

[Ravynscroft]

@RavynFallen adorable little chickies.

Thanks, hon... no beardless ones this batch either... kinda makes me wonder if my old roos "stuff" hung around a lot longer than normal... I think in spring my Lavs will be much better...

You ever want more just let me know... you'll always be welcome to whatever I can send to you...

 

[AmyPaperlady]

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Which is why I've had no luck with shipped eggs under Frieda--next time she's broody, I'm incubating in my new-to-me Octagon 10 and giving the chicks to Frieda to raise. I'll get to candle without getting pecked, and don't have to deal with the mess of brooding--the best of both worlds!

Granted, the chicks Frieda raises are pretty wild, but the ones I raised were, too.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Which is why I've had no luck with shipped eggs under Frieda--next time she's broody, I'm incubating in my new-to-me Octagon 10 and giving the chicks to Frieda to raise. I'll get to candle without getting pecked, and don't have to deal with the mess of brooding--the best of both worlds! Granted, the chicks Frieda raises are pretty wild, but the ones I raised were, too.

I did shipped eggs under a broody... started them in the bator just long enough for veining to start then moved them under the broody... got 6 outta 10 eggs to hatch and previous attempt in the bator only ended up 0...

 

[rossfam06]

Question; does anyone have Ayam Cemanis? if you do please pm me. thanks!

Wow!!! Expensive chicks!!! Lol!! If only...

22 new fluffnuggets since Wed...

OMG!!! Look at those cuties!!!! I like fluffnuggets!!! Lol!!!

I need everything you hatched lol, I'm going tomorrow to pick up 8 Ayam Cemani chicks. 1 month old. somehow I talked myself into them.

Holy crap!!!! That's a lot...I wish I had the money.

lol... I started with around 60 eggs... LOTS of clears... :/

I swear this is the longest molt ever...

AC's huh? Them is pricey... I personally prefer the look of the Svart's though... but can't do any more new breeds here for now at least... still trying to decide if we'll keep all the ones we have now... :/

Actually I agree about the honas. They have more of a rounder bird look than the gamey bird look.

 

[ronott1]

I did shipped eggs under a broody... started them in the bator just long enough for veining to start then moved them under the broody... got 6 outta 10 eggs to hatch and previous attempt in the bator only ended up 0...

I did not say that you cannot hatch shipped eggs under a broody--I said that eggs with detached air cells will not hatch under a broody as well as in an incubator.

If you hatched 6 out of 10 shipped eggs under a broody then they probably did not have detached air cells.

Egg do not always have detached air cells when shipped it is just more common. This about the only time that hatching in an incubator is better than broody hatching too.

 

[kwhites634]

I am in Duplin county in eastern nc

About the only thing I remember about my attempt to incubate quail eggs is that out of 100 shipped eggs I only hatched 40. The 40 were housed on the basement floor in a big ring til they were old enough to go outside & be released into the wild. I think around 30 of them died before they ever got that big. I'm certainly no incubating/hatching expert, and 30-40 years ago I was even dumber. Looking back, I suspect that the majority of the chicks died off 'cause they got chilled on the floor.

The whole thing was an experiment. I was trying to re-establish a wild quail population in my area to train my dogs on.

I had pretty good luck keeping grown quail. I often procured the birds for upcoming field trials, & would buy extras for myself. Never had flight pens for them, but they were released often enough that they flew pretty decently, and returned to the recall pen on their own.

.If I were to try hatching quail again, I'd secure the services of a broody Banty hen; it's a whole bunch simpler that way. Of course, the one time I tried it I wound up with a non-broody hen...I truly was "green as grass".

Good Luck to you.

 

[meganhundley]

Today is not a good day. This stupid storm blew my front door open cause someone didn't close it all the way after they went out and all 3 of my dogs got out and attacked our pot belly pig, luckily she's ok though. Then I candled my eggs and alot of them are quitting on me. God I wish I had never washed them. I just wasn't thinking when I did it. I can't get anymore cause there's no way my husband is going to drive me all the way back up there again. We were on the road all day that day. 1 of the breeders told me they'd replace the eggs but I'm leary about shipped eggs after that last batch and I don't think she's ever shipped eggs before so I don't know if she'd do it right. And the other breeder, which was way more expensive, won't replace them. Especially since it was my fault that they are quitting. So upset right now.