all who are hatching quail

[Dragons4u]

I have a refrigerator I got for free that I store them in at 50 degrees. Not sure what the humidity is, have never checked. I haven't tried hatching any yet out of it because all I'm getting so far are chicken eggs. I don't need more chickens.

 

[subhanalah]

i kept humidity around 40% during incubation, turned the eggs  until 3 days prior to hatching. last few days i raised humidity to 70%. humidity did vary from time to time but minly it dropped below 40% into the mid 30% range and i add more water. eggs are gathered a week before they go in so 5 or 6 days. about that process    i take them out of quail pens and put them on top of  my rabbit cage thats under a tree, thats under a shed.temps range from 70's at night to low 90's in the day  could that be a problem? where do you store eggs before they go into incubator?


 and again thanks for everyones replies ,   John

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.

 

[Quail Jailer]

i kept humidity around 40% during incubation, turned the eggs until 3 days prior to hatching. last few days i raised humidity to 70%. humidity did vary from time to time but minly it dropped below 40% into the mid 30% range and i add more water. eggs are gathered a week before they go in so 5 or 6 days. about that process i take them out of quail pens and put them on top of my rabbit cage thats under a tree, thats under a shed.temps range from 70's at night to low 90's in the day could that be a problem? where do you store eggs before they go into incubator?


and again thanks for everyones replies , John

yes, could be that the eggs germinated in the high temps of the day then died off at night...

I store mine in a cool corner of my laundry room...bout 60 degrees

 

[titika]

Eggs 8 days late. Some were leaking so i was just going to throw the whole batch out today. 6 are pipped now. I think my temp was a little low, like 97 or so so they are just late bloomers. Hope they hurry because i have more eggs that i need to get in there.

 

[WaterfowlWierdo]

Eggs 8 days late. Some were leaking so i was just going to throw the whole batch out today. 6 are pipped now. I think my temp was a little low, like 97 or so so they are just late bloomers. Hope they hurry because i have more eggs that i need to get in there.

Huh.....good thing you waited 8 days! I wouldnt have! I just got my jumbo brown eggs from Capital City Poultry I ordered 60 jumbo brown and recieved 85....only one broke so I got my moneys worth! Also going to put the blue scaled egg in the bator tomorrow......doubt it will be fertil but its worth a try!

 

[titika]

Huh.....good thing you waited 8 days! I wouldnt have! I just got my jumbo brown eggs from Capital City Poultry I ordered 60 jumbo brown and recieved 85....only one broke so I got my moneys worth! Also going to put the blue scaled egg in the bator tomorrow......doubt it will be fertil but its worth a try!

Nice. I need to get a better Hatcher set up and a better brooder cage set up for chicks. Running out of room

 

[WaterfowlWierdo]

Nice. I need to get a better Hatcher set up and a better brooder cage set up for chicks. Running out of room

Story of my life! I need more brooders! I have those pheasants, 4 turkeys (Not keeping very long though) and 21 meat chicks (also not keeping long) along with 3 turkeys due to hatch tomorrow, 40 bobwhites, and a few coturnix all due tomorrow! Ugh need more brooders always! Then some snowflakes, scaled and those 85 coturnix due at the end of the month

 

[titika]

Story of my life! I need more brooders! I have those pheasants, 4 turkeys (Not keeping very long though) and 21 meat chicks (also not keeping long) along with 3 turkeys due to hatch tomorrow, 40 bobwhites, and a few coturnix all due tomorrow! Ugh need more brooders always! Then some snowflakes, scaled and those 85 coturnix due at the end of the month

i need more space to put more brooders lol

 

[WaterfowlWierdo]

i need more space to put more brooders lol

Haha yes! I got another blue scaled egg today!

 

[titika]

Haha yes! I got another blue scaled egg today! 

i picked up a big styrofoam cooler and a Coleman mini fridge cooler to convert to incubators/hatchers.