Well, I acquired a young button quail pair while I was living in Arizona. I'm breeding them as a food source for falconry. That and I just like them.

So we moved back to Texas and the female started laying for me. The first batch seemed to have been infertile, but I just put that off to the move. This second time around we lost power for a bit so the eggs weren't at the proper temperature for over 24 hours. I gave the female a break to let her rest, but I kept the second batch of eggs in the incubator, just to see.

The first egg was laid on 9-1-09 and eggs take any where from 16-20 days to hatch. So when 9-18-09 came and went I was kinda bummed. I thought the power being out ruined the eggs. But being lazy, I left them in the incubator.

So this morning I was getting ready for a phone meeting and I kept hearing this peeping. At first I thought it was just my degu talking to me (she does that a lot) but it just kept going on and on. It finally dawned on me to check the incubator! And low and behold, the egg that was laid on 9-1-09 hatched! I quickly got the little fella set up and he's just scooting around the baby tank. So now I have hope for the other eggs!

And without further ado, here's the little guy. I'll also post updates as they come.