Thursday, July 24, 2008

Another Mistake :(

I was wondering why the baby quail count was 3 and still 3, so I had a quick look around and found at least 5 in the water trough! The metal separating the trough from the incubating area is permanently shaped slightly upwards (from use before) and the quails had fallen in. I don't know how I could have missed that. I have since removed the damp quails and placed them onto the wire. They should be on wire or at least something they can grasped onto for the first 24 hrs whilst they're still in the incubator for their legs to grow properly or could lead to complications like weak or splayed legs etc. Lucky I found them soon enough as the trough that they fell into contained some water (luckily not deep enough to drown them).

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