Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Eyeheartquail]

Morning! awww Sounds like a sad day in poultryville.

Hopefully there will be a turn around soon. I have my

for all of the existing hatchlings. I am still waiting on my pidgy eggs. Hopefully I will get a decent hatch. The only thing in my bator as we speak is 1 single coturnix quail egg. I received 2 dozen from quaillady 18 days ago. They were all smooshed and cracked except for this one lone ranger. It is either a roux dilute or a red. He is due today and still no pipping. Argh.

Casslarrabee225: I have been watching your baby all morning live. I love that you are streaming his activity! Good vibes to all!

 

[JulieNKC]

Morning Eyeheart! If you want more quail eggs there is another forum I post on that has lots of quail people. Let me know and I'll give you the link, I usually go there with all my quail questions.

 

[Eyeheartquail]

Ahh Thanks Julie. I am pretty good right now. My bator will be full after my Cayugas get here. Quaillady will be sending me out another 2 dozen replacement soon. I would still love the forum info. Is it on BYC? It has been hard to find anyone besides quaillady that carry quality roux dilutes and reds. After this batch I don't plan on hatching any more besides my own eggs.

 

[Eyeheartquail]

I post and the forum dies. Go figure. LOL

 

[JulieNKC]

The roux/reds are pretty. I'm still trying to decide if I want more different color quail, or if I just want to switch to chukar. My quail are kind of boring to me anymore lol, but I think that's because I just have tibetans so boring little brown birds lol. I need to get some white so I can have tibetan/white/tuxedos and a little variety if I end up keeping my quail. What do you do with yours? Do you eat them or just eggs?

 

[Eyeheartquail]

We use ours for dog food (we feed raw), human food, and eggs. I know what you mean about getting boring. If I didn't have all of the color to play around with I wouldn't have them long. I do enjoy watching them take sand baths and popping around like popcorn. I have tux, rosetta/range tibetan, italian, english whites, and browns. The italians and tux are my fav.so far.

 

[Srbenda]

We have begun the assist with 2 eggs that have pipped on the wrong end, so that they can at least breathe well.

We are now on Day 28, but only have 6 out of 21 pipped. (And 4 of those are on the wrong end)

Hoping for more pips as the day goes on.

 

[JulieNKC]

I think I need more colors. And more, I've only tried a few extra males I had. I still want to try bacon wrapped grilled quail. Mine have been slacking and not laying for over a month now though.

I'm really considering eating them all and starting over.

 

[Iain Utah]

Srbenda, I would candle all the ones that have not pipped. If internally pipped, I would make an external pip holes in those eggs too. Please keep us posted!!

 

[Eyeheartquail]

Srbenda:Yay your baby is out!