Greetings to the agricultural community mindset, it is a pleasure to be here again after some compromising situations in my life.
I am a small businesswoman, I like sowing, transplanting, and everything related to plants, so I have my small nursery at home.
I also have my own little quail farm. That is the subject that I bring up today in this publication.
I sell the birds for breeding, the eggs for consumption, and the birds for discard after breeding. I also use the manure from my poultry as fertilizer for the plants.
I just hatched a little over 25 eggs. It was a somewhat irregular process, as the light was deficient on several occasions. Ten quail hatched within the estimated time, of 16 days.
I was happy for the few eggs that hatched, I thought they were not going to hatch because of so many light failures. The curious thing is what I am telling you now...
When the chicks hatch, which usually happens at 16 days, I leave the chicks in the incubator for another 24 hours. This way, the hatchlings help the unhatched ones by pecking at the eggs and jumping on them. Apparently, these movements stimulate the eggs that have yet to hatch.
After 24 hours I remove the 10 hatched chicks and transfer them to the hatcher, where they should stay for about 15 days. No more chicks hatched from the 10 that I removed. I turned off the incubator and started collecting all the remaining eggs, 15 in total that did not hatch.
I put them in a container to throw them in the garbage, but it occurs to me to put one by one the eggs in my ears, to hear some sound coming from inside. And my surprise is that I hear, almost at the end of the check, the chirping of a chick. I was surprised, and I immediately turned the incubator back on and placed all the eggs inside. I give it another chance to hatch. I found it incredible since chicks hatch at 16 or 17 days and this one that was chirping would have been 18 days old at that time.
By day 19 I went to the incubator and had two beautiful new chicks, what a nice surprise. I almost killed them when I took them out at 17 days. This has never happened to me before. But every day is a new learning experience. It has served me as an experience because from now on I will leave the incubator on for 20 days in total. I don't lose anything, but I do gain, if after these days the eggs that didn't hatch at 18 days can hatch.
Although many eggs were lost and did not hatch due to continuous light failures, I am happy to have my 12 chicks. Within a week I begin the process of collecting eggs for the next incubation. I hope that how normal the light has been this week will remain the same when the new incubation begins.
All pictures are my property, taken with my Redmi 9 mobile phone.
Thanks to my fellow readers and friends who are enthusiastic about bird breeding.
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Thank you very much.