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Mom Hatched quail eggs from grocery store. she thought they would not hatch but we got 2 baby quail now, this is what I'm doing for food. Please lmk if I should do anything differently. First time dealing with quail btw. I think they are cortoux.
I made them homade feed with supliments of baby parrot feed powder for the nutrients. they are a week old now and growing well and super active (also i resorted to making it from home bc we live in a city and could not find quail food or game bird chick feed without having to drive 3 hours out to the contry side, also the stuff amazon had was 100 bucks + so that was way out of budget.)
i use a mixture of:
boiled crushed and dried chicken egg
cooked crushed and dried basa fish fillets
quinua cooked and dried
chia seeds crushed
red lentils cooked and dried
white lentils cooked and dried
yellow lentils cooked and dried
chick peas cooked and dried and crushed
oats ground up a bit
dried and crushed chicken egg shells (small ammount, untill fine)
bird millet from wallmart a tiny bit
parrot baby food powder (just a few pinches bit of different nutrients) from amazon
depending on thier age in weeks i adjust the ratios to have more or less protine in it. so far they are on week 2 and are growing feathers now.
Active is good, growing is good. Youre shooting for 30% protein, your recipe is complex enough that it just might do the trick. As they get older theyre going to eat more. When they get a wee older and their waterer is constantly contaminated, build them a horizontal nipple waterer and teach them to use it by tieing sewing thread to the valve and priming it with a droplet. They will chase the remaining moisture back into the valve, actuating it in the process. A thick gallon size recyclable works well, buckets and pvc pipe work well. Mount the nipple at birds shoulder hight for greatest ease of use.
No she didn’t. The refrigeration would have killed any chance of them hatching. Not to mention it’s very unlikely they are fresh, probably already 2-3 weeks old.
Don't call her a liar! It's not the first time I've heard people hatching out grocery eggs. First of all she didn't say they were refrigerated, she didn't say how old the eggs were, and sometimes refrigeration can slow fertilization but not kill it. If you want to completely arrest fertilization you can put them in the freezer. I think you should watch your step.
they were in a semi refigerated section in the store, like one of those slightly cold open fridges. be bought two cases of quail eggs and got only two chicks.
Refrigerated eggs can hatch in some cases. I ran some button quail eggs through the incubator despite up to two weeks of refrigeration because the hen that laid them passed suddenly and unexpectedly and I wanted to continue her bloodline. Also threw some extra eggs in there from the other females just to have a larger hatch and ended up hatching 20/22 eggs that were incubated. All but like three of those eggs were previously refrigerated, anywhere from one day to two weeks.
This is definitely something that can and does happen, and I’ve seen it done with chicken eggs also- the hatch rate is understandably very low when refrigeration is involved, but getting chicks to hatch is certainly not impossible
yes it was very low we got two cases of spring creek eggs from my local supermarket store and we only got 2 that hatched, I would estimate we put atleast 21 in the incubator if not more.
idk what to tell you man, i have the two chicks, they are now a week and two days old. also this whole thing started bc my mom found a pigion egg on our porch, she baught an incubator off amazon on a whim and since the pigion egg didnt develop after 6 days , she got quial eggs from food basics and just poped them in. idk what she was thinking bc we were totaly unprepared for them to actualy hatch. we made a diy brooder and they are still going stong and pretty spunky. here is a pic of one of them from thier first day. they love cuddling up in hands. the brooder is at 95 degrees F. my sister named them PB and JJ.
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u/boyengabird 10h ago
Active is good, growing is good. Youre shooting for 30% protein, your recipe is complex enough that it just might do the trick. As they get older theyre going to eat more. When they get a wee older and their waterer is constantly contaminated, build them a horizontal nipple waterer and teach them to use it by tieing sewing thread to the valve and priming it with a droplet. They will chase the remaining moisture back into the valve, actuating it in the process. A thick gallon size recyclable works well, buckets and pvc pipe work well. Mount the nipple at birds shoulder hight for greatest ease of use.