today our Courtnix Quail started to hatch. We had a total of 12 eggs. 1 hatched perfectly in 30minutes and was walking around in about a half hour (this was at 11) at around 6:15, another egg was moving, but an hour and a half later, we decided it couldn't make it out on it's own, the humidity was way too low, and the membrane in the egg was very dry. So, we stuck our hand in and used tweasers to cut open the shell and membrane. A chick came out. It looked ok, except it's head was stuck bend down, in the position it was in while in egg. A few minutes later, the 1st chick came over and pecked it's leg and pulled, making the toe bleed. about 3 minutes later, the 1st chick (now named Peet) came over and pecked and pulled on the 2nd chick's neck. That wasn't good. Then they left eachother alone (the 2nd not looking very good), and then Peet came over and pecked the other one's eye. No damage seen by us. We decided it was obviously time to move Peet to the brooder. So we did. The other bird still isn't ok, but it's peeping back and forth to Peet (who is a few feet away in brooder) They exchange peeps, one peeps, then the other. Is that a good thing? Anyways, here's some pics of when peet was coming out, i don't have any pics of the 2nd.
http://homepage.mac.com/redwoodranch/pics/2.JPGhttp://homepage.mac.com/redwoodranch/pics/1.JPG make sure to capitalize JPG when putting in adress box
and another thing is, if the other one doesn't live, is it ok to put it with a chick (chicken)that's 1 week old?, i was thinking to use a breed like Orphingtons, because they're broody.