This little one is the weakest but just about managing
And a fourth one emerging from its shell
I am trying to save this feisty little quail hatchling
And another has just hatched (with a little help from me)
And a third is hanging on in there
They are in grandson’s room in a box with some chick crumbs and a very shallow dish of water. I have a halogen heater raising the room temperature to nearly unbearable for me and I have ordered a heat plate which should arrive tomorrow. Maybe they will survive the night
Sunday morning visitors play in the barn
Mea culpa
Chickens don’t SPEAK quail. Quail don’t understand chicken. That’s what I have discovered to the cost of several day old quail chicks. (I found an excellent explanatory video on YouTube. Should have watched this first.)
The sitting hen is a first time sitter. Instead of hen chicks she hatched quails. She doesn’t know how to teach them to feed and so they died. Three are left – one looks robust and two are poorly. In a desperate attempt to save these tiny critters I have prepared a large cupboard box with air holes, lined with paper, stocked with chick crumbs and a water drinker and a loose fitting lid. This is now in the quail house with one female quail inside with the three chicks.
I will check on them very hour but at the moment, despite the piteous cheeps, the adult quail shows no sign of mothering and probably will peck them. Sorry little hatchlings.
An unexpected gift……well,two,actually
Another quail hatched when my walking friends were at The Gables at lunchtime. I picked one up and it is tiny and oh, so sweet. Just hope it survives and thrives. The second gift was from daughter. I had told her about an African-American country and western singer whose single “Best Shot” topped the country charts in November 2018. Apparently daughter has been listening to Jimmie Allen on Amazon music so she sent me his CD (I am a bit old fashioned) and now we can both indulge our passion for country music in our own way.
Post walk refreshments in the barn
Setting off
A wheelbarrow full of vegetables
Plenty to give away tomorrow to my fellow Friday walkers
What a little sweetie
The first tiny quail has emerged from its egg which has been incubated by…….one of the paddock hens. We don’t know how many more (if any) will emerge. We wait.
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