We are in quail lockdown.

Feb 4, 2021
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Our first 43 eggs are officially in lockdown. We counted wrong and put them into lockdown on day 15, just one hour before day 16. Good thing we did. We have our first pip just 2 hours later. None had pipped when we put them into lockdown. Several are wiggling. this Is so nerve wracking, yet exciting.
 

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There are only 5 more eggs left to hatch Out if the 43 developing eggs candled at day 12. Less than a full day old, they are zipping around the brooder. We had to remove them from the brinsea mini as they filled it up with chicks. Then again after it filled up again. we put the small incubator into the brooder, open the lid carefully, then quickly evict the dry ones and replace the lid. I would worry about shrink wrapping the remaining ones, except they never stop hatching.
The second set of 60 are alone in the brinsea ovation 56 With 45% humidity and the turner on And are at day 5 of incubation. So, all told the turner was off for about 10 hours and humidity raised to 65% for 40 hours To accommodate both settings of eggs. We have two heat lamps set up, 94.5 f under each with an over lapping area that is 102f. The chicks seem to like to be under the double heat zone for the first couple of hours, then move to single heat zone, before going everywhere. They’ve all been given a drink of water from a finger tip, several are actively using the quail water dish. They are all eating. ( that is 3xcept the 8 currently in the incubator screaming to be let out🤣. They don’t seem interested when we tell them as soon as they dry.
and then there is the one screamer who is needy, crying ever time we stop talking To it.
 
So we had to assist 2 to hatch. One is in the mix. Final one is resting in the incubator. He was tightly wrapped in the inner wrapping. We removed the outer membrane and shell At 1 am and lightly oiled the inner membrane. We couldn’t remove it as it still had veins we could see. This morning he was dried again , but no more veins so we removed him carefully. We will see if he thrives. So if we count him, we have 41 hatched out of 60. Not bad for shipped eggs 12 days in the mail.
we may check when the 2 non moving eggs stopped developing....we may not. I’d say 41 is a great hatch out, in the circumstance. I’ll post pics later today.
 

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