Quail

[SideShow Bob]

Still, it will not be as fun as having your “neighbors” to go claim their cat & pay a fine when they get lax on letting their cat out again.

[encorehunter]

We picked up six females and two males yesterday to start our little covey. The gentleman who was raising them had an amazing set up and let us go through and get ideas. They are in a dog crate for now, but should be able to get their new pen built today. We have three incubators ready to go.

[GilpinGuy]

Very cool! Have fun with them!

[Frac]

I'm happy to see this thread still alive. I've got 15 eggs in the incubator on day 17. We ordered them through the mail, and I don't think they made the journey. We candled them on day 7 and we couldn't see a spot, a vein, an embryo, or anything resembling photos we had online. if I don't have chicks by Sunday, I'm going to crack some eggs and see what happened.

Does anyone here have birds for sale or fertile eggs? I'd go for 3F\1M birds or two dozen eggs.

[Frac]

Well, what do you know! Three hatched out yesterday evening and they?re doing well in the brooder this morning.


The pup isn?t tall enough to notice them, but Bella is crazy birdy right now.

[encorehunter]

We lost one of ours. She had a prolapse, so I am guessing an egg came out wrong or it was too big. We noticed a bit of blood under the cage and found her. We seperated her, but she didnt make it. None of our eggs have hatched yet, which makes me believe the incubator they were in malfunctioned. It started alarming for low temp and I could not get it to increase. I changed them to a different incubator, but so far no luck.

[Frac]

Bummer that you lost a hen. What day of incubation were you at when the low temp alarm went off?

We have a NurtureRight 360 and it has been rock solid at 99.5. I had two occasions where it ran out of water overnight and the humidity dropped to 5.

I added a cheap digital thermometer inside when I took out the egg turner. The digital thermometer registered 96.5 degrees. I read that 95 degrees can cause disproportionate development, resulting in chick die off. So, now I am second guessing my temp control. I am thinking about bumping the NurtureRight up by 1.5 degrees just to be sure.

Yesterday was day 18. I have 12 eggs unhatched as of this morning. I?m going to let them go until tomorrow afternoon, just in case I can get a couple more late bloomers.

As it is, I had a 20% hatch rate with eggs shipped in January from the east coast. I guess that isn?t too bad, considering.