As you can imagine, coming from such a tiny egg, he/she is teeny tiny. I will call it a he for now as that is what we hope it is so he can go in with the 4 girls and make fertile eggs for us to hatch some more of. All is not lost if he is a she though because we are about to lend our incubator to some friends so they can give hatching their quail eggs a go. Hopefully they can control the temperature of the eggs before incubation starts a bit better - difficult in the heat of the summer - we think that is what went wrong with our eggs. They can then give us a male or female depending what our little guy really is.
He is also a bit suicidal so perhaps he won't actually make it to grown up anyway! He tried to hang himself off the side of the incubator a couple of times, he has tried to drown himself and starve himself. We presume he is eating now, to have survived this long, but have never seen him at it.
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