The Poorly One

Sadly the poorly one has pased away, not a great surprise, but I miss him.

More pictures

Lots of pictures of the quail, 9 very healthy one with slightly curled toes, but they are getting straighter.

The cat has no started taking an interest in them.

Cutie Pies Eggs

The eggs for my broody Silkie have arrived, they are now resting in the kitchen ready to pop under her.

10 Hatched

10 hatched now, farily sure the other two are either infertile or dead in shell, mind you one of them is the one I accidentilly cracked last week, so it could have been 11.
I think the cat has gone deaf as he is not even stirring at the chirping come from the quail.

Broody

We now have a Silkie that has gone broody as well so some Bantam eggs are arriving for her today, so soon there will be more chicks.

Hatching Photos

7 Now

7 out now, the early ones are fluffing up.

6 Hatched

6 so far and 5 others hatching.

Eggs Pipped

At around 5 pm Monday evening, the eggs started pipping, by 6 11 out of 12 had cracked.

This morning at 6 am several eggs have a slightly larger hole.

Todays, the Day hopefully

Well today is the day, hopefully any way, mind you I guess the first day doesn't count.

Last Day of Turning

Well today is the last turning day, I have just topped up the Water, so after today it just fingers crossed and wait.

Checked for Fertility

As I have been unable to candle the eggs due to size and shell clour I decided to try float testing them. According to my book if the sink they are infertile, if the bob around then they are fertil.

Well the first 2 sank like rocks, a littl disheartening, the next bobbed. Altogether 7 bobbed 5 sank. I have left them all in the incubator as I want to be sure and not risk throwing out fertile eggs.

Sadly as I was drying one of the eggs, I cracked it. So I have painted nail varnish on, and popped it back in, so fingers crossed.

Day 11

Tried to candle eggs again today, but can't see any thing through the shells, so I guess I'll have to wait and see.

Day 10

12 eggs still in incubator, haven't been able to candle them due to size and shell colour so will just have to wait and see.

Day 7

Not much to report, still turning 5 times a day, going to try candleing the eggs for the first time later.

Day 5

Day 5 already. The eggs have been in since Friday, and in 2 days I will be candleing them for the first time.

Eggs in the Incubator

Friday night I started the 12 quail eggs off in the incubator.

Have been busy turning them throughout the day.