As you may well know, a while back I got some quail, then quickly tried to lose them to the abyss of the grasslands... The next day I got my first quail egg! And finally, we got their pen together and they've been pretty darn happy ever since!
25 days ago, I put some quail eggs into the incubator and hoped for the best.
Yesterday, one of the eggs hatched! yay! Later in the evening two more hatched and a third was making its way from its egg with much trouble. Last night before bed I told myself that I would help it out of the egg, if it wasn't out already when I woke up.
It wasn't out of the egg this morning so I carefully pulled off the portion it cracked open to give it a little bit of help. I am all about doing things naturally, but something that is trying to make it out of an egg for over 12 hours. I gotta give it a little hand. So, as I said, I carefully pried open the top where it had already made great work in scoring it perfectly around the air sac of the egg. Then I just set it back down and hoped for the best.
It took a long while to get out of the egg and when it finally did it rolled itself over to the side of the incubator. I left it for a while and came back to see that it excreted some kind of green liquid and it did not look good. I let it be for a bit and then noticed some sort of lump deformity. I got husband and roommate to look at the baby, we all decided that it was suffering and called it. It was a sad deal but I feel we made the right choice.
So, I had 8 eggs in there. 7 were viable, 4 have hatched so far with the one not making it. Let's hope that they're females! Haha. There's still a chance for the other three to hatch over the next few days.
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Tomorrow is the eclipse! Some more people are coming over in the morning just to watch it. My mom is here and Husband's friends and their kids are here. I am so ready to get back to our normal routines.
Otherwise, things are going well over here! I am so happy that some of the quail hatched. I need to get their brooder together so I can get them out of the incubator. I am really hoping that the last three hatch but, if not, I am thankful these guys did! I know quail have a high mortality rate as chicks, I hope I can keep these three alive! We did start gathering eggs again in order to do another hatch.
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