I don’t know what to do at this point!

[Ozbej Rakovec]

I’m on my 15th day of quail incubating! Just went in to lockdown! My humidity is almost perfect. I have 12 store bought quail eggs! At day 5 I candled all 12 but I saw only one fertile! I have no problem with that hatch rate, but I am worried, I candled it every other day and it has been developing quite well! My phone light is very faint so I didn’t get to see much. But now on day 15 the only thing I saw was some thick vains and a pretty big air pocket! The only thing that is scaring me is that I candeled the egg and never saw anything moving! Hopefully something will hatch! I am very exited! Have any of you have any luck rasing quail out of a homemade incubator! And dod any of you have the same candiling problems?

 

[ShadyGlade]

The only way I can successfully candle quail eggs is with an LED candler I bought. I wish I'd found it years ago.
I wouldn't worry since that won't help your potential hatchlings or your blood pressure. I will add, in my experience the biggest problems with success in hatching quail are humidity related. I personally don't open the incubator from day fourteen on because the fluctuations close to hatch has always seemed to effect not only final hatch numbers but also seemed to cause a larger number of pipped but died in the shell.
I have my fingers crossed for your success.

 

[Ozbej Rakovec]

The only way I can successfully candle quail eggs is with an LED candler I bought. I wish I'd found it years ago.
I wouldn't worry since that won't help your potential hatchlings or your blood pressure. I will add, in my experience the biggest problems with success in hatching quail are humidity related. I personally don't open the incubator from day fourteen on because the fluctuations close to hatch has always seemed to effect not only final hatch numbers but also seemed to cause a larger number of pipped but died in the shell.
I have my fingers crossed for your success.

My humility was 65% it has now droped to around 55%! Is that ok for lockdown?