Wordless Wednesday – Shaking Things Up

Guess what happened today? I was fussing with the brooder to get it all ready for the quail eggs, which I was hoping were fertile and were going to hatch tomorrow or Friday. Well, I heard a small racket coming from the incubator, went and looked in and some of my eggs are shaking and peeping like crazy. We’ve definitely got fertile eggs and there’s plenty of water in the incubator base, so I am getting optimistic about having some little quail peeps. (And a covey of quail running around pretty soon.) It is so fun for kids (and grownups) to watch the eggs wobbling and peeping!

I’ve got marbles in the water dish to keep them from drowning and I have the brooder warmed up. Now, I need to crush up the feed, because even crumbles will be too big for the newly hatched Coturnix. I suspect a watched egg doesn’t hatch, but that doesn’t stop me from peeking every few minutes. And just try convincing anyone under the age of ten to do something else! Everyone wants to be the first to spot a little beak poking out.