Sunday, April 09, 2006

Rascal prepares to leave the mothership..er chick hatcher (4 hours old)

Mike transports Rascal to his new box


Kids watch Rascal adapt to new home

Rascal at 5 hours old...cuter than the birds we raised on a bird farm!!!


Hatching - this is a much better photo when blown up but then blogger won't upload it. LOL There's his little head popping out the top of the shell. The kids have named him rascal. It's very hard to leave him in the hatcher and not transfer him to a box...but we are trying to follow directions. He got his head stuck in his shell and a great amount of restraint not to help him out. He's resting now.

Everyone else is at a big Easter Egg hunt at chapel but I knew that it would be difficult for Zander so he, Stacia and I are about to head in for the service.
QUAIL UPDATE

First problem solved - chick will need to stay in incubator for some time after hatching so should be fine until we get home from chapel.....but we may miss the hatching! ARGH.

Second problem - chick needs "starter mash". I've found a list of what is IN it but no idea how to make it - I will use some of Stacia's rice cereal for today and buy some mash tomorrow.

Third problem - check needs to be in the brooder for SIX WEEKS and we are going camping....this is something I must ponder on.
QUAIL EGGS

Our eggs were to have hatched yesterday and haven't. This a.m. one of them is moving....I'm shocked that we may get a quail....and now I'm trying to figure out what will happen if it hatches while we are chapel....and what am I going to feed the thing. I didn't research it after we repeatedly caught Zander turning the eggs.