hatching started, yippee

1 of my eggs has a tiny hole and 1 has a v shaped crack, so so soooo excited looks like things are getting under way.
after all the little problems these eggs have gone through and all the stresses they have given me looks like at least some success is on the way.

Congrats! Hope to see some chick pics soon

fantastic news! ...and I was suggesting chucking them out at one point just as well you didn't listen to me

Hi again. Did you say your eggs are late hatching?. just interested

If these are the eggs that went awol in the post and came on the 14/08 they'll be due tomorrow 01/09 if set on day delivered.


Fingers crossed for a good hatch, Sam

Congratulations!! Yay!!

hi all,
yes these are the eggs being turned manually by a first timer,
yes these are the eggs that went awol in the post.
yes these are the eggs that had some go bad and stinky.
and i thought they were due today as i didn't let them settle for the full 24h as they were late arriving but may have counted wrong ?
and yes these are the eggs that are likely to turn me grey through worry,lol
no further progress yet except i heard a little cheep and nearly cried,lol.
andoy i would have taken your good advice to save the stress but i have a stuborn streak and kids pestering for success. you may have been right, afterall they are not out and in the brooder yet but fingers crossed.

Don't want to contradict you Sam .... but if the japs were set on the 14th there only due tomorrow Monday 1st (18 days after setting) ..... bobs take 21 - 22 days after setting.

Well done! Post some pics when they hatch please.

Sam

feel free to condradict me i am new to this and bound make mistakes.
as i was wrong in thinking it was 16-17 days so thanks for you putting me right on that my eggs stand a better chance of me not giving up too quickly.

Thankyou everyone for holding my hand and advising me through this hatch and to suz for letting me know i got the dates wrong. here is a pic of what i woke up to this morning, 6 gorgeous very lucky chicks

well one Sam

Just or my own curiosity .... are those white Jap eggs or bobwhite eggs?

to be perfectly honest i haven't a clue but one is marked 'butler' and one has either a 'w' or an 'm' so my next question would be what happens if some eggs aren't ready to hatch but the babies are ready to be taken out, do i do it quick as i can and hope or do i leave the chicks in longer than 24 hours?
i will make sure next time they are all the same.

The white ones are bobs then! They take 3 days longer to hatch

oh dear, that gets complicated then.

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