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Anyone here in Florida who might have quail chicks or hatching eggs? My aunt and uncle live in north Florida and would like to get some. I'd rather they got some from a local on BYC, I'm in Cali and can't legally ship out of state. PM me please.

18 days to go. 35 chicken, 3 quail eggs.

Is there more than one entrance? My buttons didn't like hides unless there was a second entrance.

Away for the holidays maybe? Like a vacation mode or something?

Do you have enough space to have another pen? Maybe separate him and a few females, and put a new rooster with the other females so you have two breeding groups. He probably has a few favorites and ignores the others.

Are the eggs loose or in trays? My recommendation: If in trays, just pull out the trays and candle, and put them back when you are done. If the eggs are loose, open the incubator and pull out a bunch of eggs, close incubator, candle, open incubator, swap eggs for next set to candle, repeat until...

Sometimes they figure it out just by moving around and interacting with the other chicks, like physical therapy. Have fun taping toes if they don't straighten on their own, they are wiggly little birds.

Cute kitty! Maybe you should hatch some more cat snacks?

Way to give people a heart attack! This is why I don't name my animals with people names.

Nope. Not going to hatch until I subtract a lot of birds.

How much light are they getting? Drafty is bad, but if they aren't getting enough light they will stop laying. I think they need 12+ hours per day to stay laying. If they aren't getting that now, can you add lights?

Give them a little more time. Always candle and tap on the egg before tossing it, sometimes they are still alive and stuck. Sometimes stuck chicks don't make it, but sometimes they bounce back amazing and you can't even tell which one it was afterwards. If you feel up to it, if there's no...

Thanks! I needed something bigger than the plastic totes I was using before. I'm hoping with the vinyl tablecloth below the shavings, that I can keep the bottom wood in great shape for a long while.

I made a new brooder, I think it'll hold the babies for a while. I ended up with 112 chicks from the Halloween hatch a long now over a week old. The brooder is 16' long, 2' wide, and 2' tall. I still need to add the roof so they can't fly out. Split into 4 sections so I can separate by age/color...

Do you have a still air or forced air incubator? If it's still air you probably have cooler spots, so the chicks developed slower.

I did buy the parts to make a cabinet incubator... I might have to try and assemble it by Monday...

I may have gotten myself in trouble...I bid on and won a large batch of Myshire eggs. I will have to see if my incubators can hold 240 or if I need to make a third incubator.

Wait are these buttons or coturnix? I wasn't aware buttons have celedon eggs, I know coturnix have celedon variety.

Were the eggs that hatched identical in color or did they have some variation? My buttons might be slightly different day to day, but if you put a couple days together you could clearly tell they were from the same bird, and each bird's eggs were slightly different in shade too. So you could...

Maybe, maybe not. You won't know till you start breeding. Or there might be a way to get them tested to see but I haven't really researched anything about genetics testing for birds. If it's a colony style there's the possibility the birds are full, or at least half siblings. Birds don't seem to...