hatching started, yippee

the 6 pale chicks have just been joined by a tiny dark one, hope he'll be ok the others seem to be having fun jumping all over him.
i was thinking the only thing i need to figure out later on would be the sex but i think it might finding out what they are might proove harder,lol

actually Bobwhites can take as long as 23 days.

So Once all you're Japs are finished hatching, I'd hoink out all the chicks and unhatched Jap eggs (the ones that aren't white) and carry on incubating them for another 5 days.

I'd be interested to see what the M or W marked eggs turn out to be. I wonder if they are Mexican Speckled or White Bobwhites

Im so happy youve got some babies. yey!!!

8 babies getting fluffy, 7 pale and 1 black with yellow stripes. nothing more has happened this afternoon so see what, if ,anything the night brings and wizz them into the brooder in the morning.
bex did you get anymore?
and again thankyou so much everyone.

Awwwww well done Sam.
I have never seen proper baby quails before, just hatched.
Im impressed.
Jo

Hi, i just got 1 more,by complete luck (see my post) 6 in total. well done

here are my babies

awwwwwww i love the little yellow ones, they're gorgeous!

Well done Sam they look lovely, can't belive how many yellow ones you got you jammy thing i always seem to get mostly the dark ones.

i got 4 yellow chicks out of 6.it must be the sea air!! lol

must be lol

wow all them little yellow chicks will turn out to be whites im shocked how many you got did u know they was white eggs or not because thats lucky.
Hudgellboy

i had no idea what was coming out, i was lucky anything at all arrived but i agree most happy with with the yellows.
the kids favour little stripey there, they have name him buz lightyear, buzz for short, because he looks like a giant bumble bee and is fast.lol.

7 yellow chicks and 1 stripey doing well, flight feather shafts are there now.
continued until today on the white eggs 3 fertile but dis, must have been when i got the chicks out.
lesson learned don't buy assorted eggs unless you know what they are.
anyway incubator is empty now so will clean up for 12 bantam eggs arriving tues. only putting 2 in this one so kids can see the rest will go in hovabator auto hidden in my bedroom.
the eggs are my sisters but she wants 6 hens anything extra will be mine. fingers crossed for a couple of hens for me lol

Awww, shame about the Bobs. They are lovely birds.

Were the Japs and Bobwhites sold as a bundle? I don't think I've ever seen them sold together in one listing on eBay or privately on a web site.