➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[FloorCandy]

About a month ago, my last darth Vader button hen passed away when she made a crazy escape attempt flight while I filled the water, and hit the wall hard, about 12 feet up and tumbled to the floor dead. I had just started getting eggs, so I took the 8 or so eggs I had collected, and I set them and got 4 chicks (1 eventually passed, so 3), which I thought was pretty good for early eggs. The buttons don’t make the mess that the cots do, and I can mostly clean the one corner they seem to poop in most and the rest is pretty clean. I cleaned out the cage 100% for the first time, maybe 1-2 days before those 4 chicks hatched. I found 12 eggs buried in the cage, and the hen had been dead for over 2 weeks at that point in time. When the first 4 eggs hatched I set those 12 eggs, and on day 10, when I candled, 8 were developing. 7 hatched Sunday into Monday, and the last one is hatching now! Those eggs were at least 18 days old when I set them, and at 1 per day max, that puts them all at 18-30 days old minimum!

Pics to come!

 

[FloorCandy]

Pics from the 7 in the brooder:

Here’s the fresh one in the bator, just hatched:

By the time I posted these it was up and running, but here it is as it’s deciding to get up for the first time haha:

 

[Nabiki]

The details on QuailCon!

 

[Pyxis]

The results of my hatch from Cajunboy:

Got a few blacks out of the black replacement eggs Also what appears to be some Pearl Fees, and I'm hoping the darker ones are Sparklies.

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

Started my second round of quail eggs! Lied to my mom about them, as.. well, she's a bit of a control freak at times and will throw a fit if I even hatch two babies. I'm 46 and you'd think I could control my own life! Sighs. Love her though.

So yeah. Quail eggs. Got seven in the incubator as I type

Laughing. My mom is a little concerned with how many quail I keep, but she loves the eggs and compost and she's still in awe that I'm able to cull. She should be more concerned with my sister and her accumulation of dogs.

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

The details on QuailCon!

Know what? I might! YOLO Saving the date: Sept 3-4.

 

[HipMystic]

Know what? I might! YOLO Saving the date: Sept 3-4.

You should! It was so much fun last year!

 

[Kiki]

You should! It was so much fun last year!

You went!?

 

[Kiki]

 

[HipMystic]

You went!?

I did!