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you may have or the thread may have...but I don't think I have...but..miss really hot here...and the heat gets to me.

vinegar does a pretty good job of inhibiting bacteria growth.

I put my thumb print in a shell. Created a pretty big spider crack and it wrapped around the egg too. It was a duck egg and it even pipped where I painted over it and it's alive and thriving. Also had to paint a wellsummer egg and it hatched and lived until someone bought it and let their dog...

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seal the cracks if you can. I use finger nail polish.

I would let your humidity be a bit lower during incubation. I waited for it to reach 25% before adding more water. What kind of incubator is it? I only fill one tray, the smallest when needing to add humidity for incubation.

sounds like they were kept too wet/humid during incubation and didn't lose enough weight before hatching, so they got too big for the shell.

I would also give him hard boiled egg yolks. Do you have or can you get poultry nutridrench? I was under the impression they need a higher protein feed than that.

sounds like a nutritional deficiency. Not sure what causes it in quail.

I took a tall plastic container (it had instant coffee in it) and cut a small hole in the side, about an inch up from the bottom. The hole is small enough for their head/beak, but not their bodies. I filled it with pea gravel and then filled it with water til it overflowed out the hole. They...

smaller eggs are more affected by swings in temperature than bigger ones.

is it a double yolker?

no, their eggs seem so small they right themselves when knocked over. I didn't have a problem. I did sometimes rearrange the unmatched eggs to be all together in a group, but the chicks like to lay on top of the hatching eggs...practicing maybe lol

I put fermented feed in with the Littles and a small container with a small square cut out towards the bottom on the side. I fill it with marbles, then put water in. The marbles prevent them from drowning by preventing them from climbing inside the hole. I keep them in the incubator this way...

I incubated my quail in a forced air at 99-99.5

https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/poultry-podiatry I think your temperature is getting too high (splay leg and crooked feet). I'm having the same problems with some ducks I just hatched and my a/c broke during incubation, so it got HOT up there.

@BYFamily I believe your problem us due to too low humidity throughout incubation and it is causing them to lose too much liquid before hatch date.

don't they also carry blackhead if it's in your area? Just a risk you take with ranging birds. I don't think many people range quail though?