A baby chick with light brown feathers and large black eyes indoors, held gently by a hand against a blurred background of greenery and flowers. 3:04
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A quail chick hatches into a waiting hand

The incubator started life as a water bottle. The landing pad is a man's open hand. more

The man is a YouTuber in South Korea who goes by Imaginative Guy. He built the incubator himself from a recycled water bottle and set quail eggs inside. Now the eggs are about to hatch, and one of them is doing it right on his palm.

First the chick cracks a line all the way around his shell. Then he pushes hard at the opening with his beak. His keeper is careful to let him do the work himself, so he stays strong. At last the shell gives, and he spills out into the hand.

A small chick rests on a person's hand near an aquarium with colorful plants and fish swimming inside. A headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
Out of the shell, the chick rests on his keeper's hand beside a fish tank.

He starts out damp, then dries into a soft little puff. One viewer guessed the chick takes the warm hand for his mother, and it is easy to see why.

A baby chick with light brown feathers and large black eyes indoors, held gently by a hand against a blurred background of greenery and flowers. The headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
The incubator started life as a water bottle.

Later there are two. Both chicks rest together in one cupped hand.

Two small chicks rest together inside a person's cupped hand against a white background. A headline runs in white letters across the lower third.Save
Later, two chicks rest together in one cupped hand.

Then one of them shuts his eyes and sleeps, while the other stays awake. It looks like nap time in a nursery, shrunk to fit one palm.

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One chick falls asleep in the hand while the other stays awake.

The comments read like a stack of birthday cards, wish after wish for a bird who has just turned zero. A few say they are getting quail of their own and can't wait.