Welcome

Welcome to our Hatching eggs and chicks page.

On this blog you will be able to follow our progress with our first incubator (and now our second incubator, as well as few broody birds).

And hopefully see our healthy chicks.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Cutie Pies Baby


Cutie Pies Chick is getting bigger and stronger, and Cutie Pie has started taking her/him out for walks.

Ducklings 1 Week old


The ducklings were 1 week old on Sunday, and to mark the occasion they had their first trip out to the garden

Update on Quails Sexs

Seems to be the general concenus, that the quail are seved as follows

Quail 1 (Red Band) Female
Quail 2 (Purple Band) Female ??
Quail 3 (Green Band) Male
Quail 4 (Yellow Band) Female
Quail 5 (Blue Band) Female

Quail 6 (Red Band) Male
Quail 7 (Purple Band) Male
Quail 8 (Green Band) Female
Quail 9 (Blue Band) Male

If you know otherwise please get in touch.

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Quail Sexing

Just been told now that they are as follows

1 female
2 male
3 female
4 female
5 female

6 male (def)
7 male (def)
8 female (def)
9 male (def)

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Quail 9




Light Coloured




Red Band




Female ??

Quail 8




Light Coloured




Purple Band




Male?

Quail 7




Light coloured Bird




Green Band




Male?? Just been told this one is almost certainly female.

Quail 6




Light Coloured Bird Blue Band




Female ?????

Quail 5


Red Band


Female I think

Quail 4


Yellow Band


Female I think

Quail 3


Green Band


Male I think

Quail 2


Purple band


Female I think

Quail 1


Blue Band
Male I think

Monday, November 20, 2006

day 2


The ducklings are doing really well, growing already.


4 hatched in total with a 5th dying in its shell over night.


Sunday, November 19, 2006

More ducklings











Duckling Update











So far 3 are hatched, 2 Yellow, and 1 Brown and Yellow, one more is well on its way.

Christmas Hatch

Its been suggested that we have a christmas day hatch, not sure yt what to hatch so now on the look out for eggs.

Duckling pictures




Ducklings

The Indian Runner ducks due to hatch this Tuesday have decided to put in an early appearance. So far 2 out of 5 are out, and 2 more on their way.

Quail at 4 and half weeks




The Quail are now 4 and half weeks old, 5 weeks next Tuesday. They are huge now compared with when they hatched, as can be seen from the pictures with the cuddly lion in the picture.




They are now living outside in their run and house, a metal rabbit house.

Cutie Pie Babies


Cutie hatched 2 chicks, one Gold Laced Wynadotte and one of Swimmers eggs a White Silkie. Sadly the gold laced wynadotte chick managed to get out of the hutch and died in the cold wet weather last week.

Monday, November 06, 2006

Cutie Pies Egg Mountain

When we moved Cutie Pie into the rabbit hutch last week, we discovered she hasd some 19 eggs under her, 7 more than I expected. Seems she has been stealing them form Swimmer and Purdie, who I thought had stopped laying.

Sadly she lost one egg out of the nest, this was one of our eggs and it was fertile and had started to develop, which would suggest George was more active than we thought. 2 other eggs purdies I believe were clear so I have taken them away from her so she now just has the 16 eggs.

Duck Eggs

The duck eggs are doing well, when candled last week all 5 were developing, so fingers crossed for 5 little runner ducklings.

Japenease and Italian

I've been told that I have two types of quail here, Japenease and Italian, should hopefully be able to sex them soon.

Quail at 2 weeks




Withe Quail turning 3 weeks old tomorrow I realised I haven't posted their 14 day old photos yet.

Bantam Eggs

I've just found out Bantams eggs take 19 - 21 days, so they could hatch anytime now, fingers crossed.