Of mice and quail: a Hatch-along docudrama!

[Susan Skylark]

Day 7, candled again and all eggs developing. Our name list thus far:

Belladonna
The Gaffer
Fatty Lumpkin
Samwise
Kili
Fool of a Took
Everard Proudfoot

Still 5 eggs unclaimed! 10 days til hatch!

 

[Susan Skylark]

Day 13, everybody chugging along fine, lockdown tomorrow (quail hatch Day 17, all 3 Grouse eggs hatched Day 16 last time, let’s see if he does it again!).

 

[Susan Skylark]

5 eggs unnamed so here goes (unless we have some last minute entries):

Gandalf (the Grey, if we get a blue chick), though Stormcrow would be fun these are quail!
Rosie
Elenor
Strider
Long Shanks

Anybody else?

 

[Susan Skylark]

Day 16, two eggs pipped last night 3/4 pipping today… !

 

[Susan Skylark]

Everything is pipped save 2 eggs, since my humidity is running pretty high and I can do a quick in and out without it crashing I decided to investigate these too slow pokes. One had pipped on the narrow end (backwards!) and failed to rupture the membrane though he had knocked off a bit of shell. Opened the membrane to find unmoving beak and a little brownish fluid (not good!). Poor guy couldn’t access the air cell or the external air and must have died in shell, yolk nowhere near absorbed. The other one candled about half full and with no visible pips I also water candled just to make sure. Found a decomposing day 5 embryo. 10 left, all pipped, official hatch day is tomorrow but maybe somebody will venture out overnight!

 

[Susan Skylark]

Another narrow end pipper, this one has a decent air hole and is alive, hopefully he pulls through!

 

[Susan Skylark]

Everybody is hatched, the wrong end pipper is a bit week but coming along.

 

[Glory to His name]

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Everybody is hatched, the wrong end pipper is a bit week but coming along.

Adorable! Congratulations!

 

[Susan Skylark]

Final update, four days old and everybody is doing great!

 

[Krys06]

Final update, four days old and everybody is doing great!

This was exciting lol