This morning Bernadette spent some time taking photos of the quails and their chicks. They came out beautiful. Notice how they look like little chickens!
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After about 3 attempts from the different quail pairs we have, some of their eggs finally hatched. When I got back this morning Bernadette gave me the sad news that she found a dead baby in the aviary, but as strange as this sounds, it was also good news because it meant that the other quails had probably hatched as well. I promptly went outside and into the aviary to go and search for the little buggers. You could here how they’re chirping and calling for their parents. And then I saw these little things running around. So little in fact that they actually squeezed through the wire we have around the cage, and it’s about 8-10mm wide holes.
The photo is a bit fuzzy, but I didn’t want to bother them for too long. The mother is still trying to hatch out another egg. Currently there’s 3 babies running around.
While I was in the aviary I also checked up on the lovebird babies. The three of them are growing nicely, and they look like naughty children whenever I open the little nest. They just want to get out there. I’m sure that any day now they will leave the nest.
Here’s a photo of about a week ago:
Here is the little guy sitting on my hand today, and he actually ate some of the seed.
