July 30th 2012- The Quails Are Born

You would not believe the excitement that rushed through me this morning as I peered over into our incubator to find not one, not two but six baby quail chicks that had hatched during the night. It was only 17 days ago when we started incubating our eggs. We had put thirty-one eggs in and until last night there had been no sings of life whatsoever. Last night however, something amazing happened. Out the blue, a few of our eggs started to wobble and ever so often I would hear the casual peep. That was the moment when I knew we had done it right. We were going to be quail parents!!! Anyway, 10 hours after our first quail poked his head out of his shell we have now 12 baby quail chicks (and counting). Some are very busy and active whereas others still can't figure out why their head is so heavy and prefer laying on the ground and getting trampled on by their brothers and sisters.

Here are a couple pictures I took earlier this morning: