japanese quail and hatching

I know you're quails already hatched and I'm super happy that they did but for futur reference for hatching,
1. It is SUPER hard to tell if a quail egg is fertile due to the small size and dots covering the eggs but veins in an egg usually means it's fertile
2. Not sure what type of quail you have but Corienix/Japanese quails are usually in the incubator for 16 to 18 days and I have been told most hatch on the eighteen day.
Hope this was helpful! I will also be getting quail eggs soon and I'll probably be super stressed about the fertility of the eggs so wish me luck!
It is very hard to candle them!! I thought I had 20 good eggs for lockdown ended up with two. It's exciting not knowing though it's like Christmas lol. Hope you have a successful hatch
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I know you're quails already hatched and I'm super happy that they did but for futur reference for hatching,
1. It is SUPER hard to tell if a quail egg is fertile due to the small size and dots covering the eggs but veins in an egg usually means it's fertile
2. Not sure what type of quail you have but Corienix/Japanese quails are usually in the incubator for 16 to 18 days and I have been told most hatch on the eighteen day.
Hope this was helpful! I will also be getting quail eggs soon and I'll probably be super stressed about the fertility of the eggs so wish me luck!

Hi

Thanks very much and goodluck with your hatch :)

I have Buttons, Cortunix/Japanese quails at th e moment, and have a batch of chicks in at the moment testing out my new brinsea,

I think most of the issues I have had are down to the chinese no name incubators, I am hoping things are better now with the brinsea :)
 
My quail hatched on day 17 and 18. The hatch rate was 14 out of 29 so it was around half hatched. It is sad when you loose one or two of your adorable chicks its so sad
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At our quail farm, its very difficult to candle coturnix eggs, but when we do, we use the egg candler sold by GQF, that seems to be the easiest thing to do.
 
For candling I use a bright led flashlight and a series of (reducing) PVC fittings that I stack on top of the flashlight as to accommodate the different sizes of the eggs. I start out with a 1.5, then reduce down to the next smaller size until I reach a half inch fitting, You can take them apart and it will allow you to candle everything from a turkey egg down to a quail egg. Its ugly, but it works better than anything else I have tried.
I have one of the older candlers but don't use it anymore as it gets hot after a while, LED's never get hot and are bright enough to see inside the dark brown and green eggs (pheasant).
 

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