Who is pipping and waiting right now??

[Orca]

Angie, did any of your little brats make any progress? I'm in the same boat...I have 6 hatched but one looks like it has some insides on the outside still, so I doubt it will make it...and about 10 that have pipped and are seemingly quite comfortable in there. They are peeping and moving around, driving me crazy! Only on day 20, though, so I will have to be patient.

On another note...those goslings are absolutely adorable...we hatched them out in our Agriculture class in high school and used to take the goslings for walks down the halls of the school...I am thinking I will steal some eggs from my mom, and try for a couple when these chicks get done!

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

Ooh! Ace... me wanna see a picture of your TA&M... I may be having to pick them out of a crowd soon.

Do they look totally different from the coturnix when they're chicks?

They look the same as far as body but they are yellow with a few black spots. Some don't have spots at all. And from what I've seen of adults they are large coturnix that are pure white or with the black dots on them. I will post a pic tomorrow they are cute little buggers.​

 

[MissPrissy]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

Don't look Miss Prissy!!!

Another cute baby quail photo...

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k270/vyancey/Quail/coturnix/IMG_1483-c-rs.jpg

(Don't you want some???)

The thing is I wouldn't know what to do with them if I got them. Everything we raise is for meat or a breeding purpose.

Give me a legitimate reason for hatching them and keeping them and I would at least try my hand at it once.​

 

[geoaware]

Day 22 has just started for us...we have just one egg due today. Waiting is a pain!

 

[Buster]

Is it just me or is time dragging on and on and on and on? Today is day 10. Will 21 ever get here?

 

[MissPrissy]

When it gets here, Jared, you will find yourself afterward feeling as if you have spent a week in a maternity ward - exhausted by it all.

 

[Mom 2em All]

9 EE hatched out so far-I think I have one more EE to go. The two other ones were iffy- one I thought may have been rotten, the other, clear. Too hard to see inside the eggs due to color, so I gave them the benefit of the doubt. The remaining egg has a pip.

Silkie count: one. a dark one. vaulted head. One pip down very low on the egg, trying to commit suicide, I guess. One pipped then died, bunch of fluid drained out of egg after pip. I am so disappointed by my much-wanted silkies. I will hold out a little hope- see what progress has been made, if any, when I get home from work today. Out of 14 (?) Silkie eggs, and I tried so hard to do it all right. Temps right on, auto-turner, didnt hardly open the bator at all...*sigh*.

Too late for me to try again. Going on vacation the end of June/ first week of July.

I still have 14 Australorps and 8 SHow Girls in the other incubator, and a bunch of quail. Those are due to hatch the end of the month.
Miss Prissy, you can eat quail.

 

[MissPrissy]

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Some of these quail are too small to try and eat. I have considered bob white quail (which are good eats!) but where I am I need a permit to raise them.

Honestly, have you tried to eat a button quail? That is not even an hors d'oeuvre.

 

[Mom 2em All]

Bite-size candy snack?

I sure would hate to try and dress a button quail.

I have the coturnix quail in my incubator. Thought for sure my mother in law would be happy about that- she eats squirrel, pigeon, dove, etc...she told me no! She said "they are too pretty to eat". ??? She is an 82 year old farm lady, thought for sure I had found a way to get her excited. She told me that i should let them go free!

 

[barnyardmom]

I woke up to one gold laced polish.....I think! It was the only big egg in the incubator so it has to be a Polish. But the chick is white. Mom and Dad are golen laced....hyummmm? I love it whatever it is. waiting on about 12 others to hatch. an assortment of banties, RIR, D'anver quail, laced Wyondotts, and light Bramas. My 12 year old daughter purchased the Brama eggs from Mr. Horstman at the Dayton Fancy Feathers show last month. She used her own money to buy them. I warned her that I never had very good luck with the incubator but she wanted those eggs lol