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    Ended 13th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along—Count the Easter Bunny's Candies!

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    Are air cells ok?

    I had these eggs shipped to me. They were packaged well and marked as fragile etc however the post office still damaged the box to the point 4 eggs were heavily cracked/ buster and raw egg was all over inside of box. I have 15 left from shipment that are intact. When candled prior to incubating...
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    Bob white quail housing

    I have 25 bob white quail I hatched that are 3 weeks old now. We have them brooding in a kiddie pool for the time being. I was wondering what size hutch and run would be sufficient for this many? Also has anyone had success with providing shelter food and water but letting them free roam on...
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    Incubating Bob Whites

    Thanks!!
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    Incubating Bob Whites

    Yes!!! I ended up with 25 out of 40 eggs
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    Hatching Bob White Quail

    I am on day 22 of hatching bob white quail. I placed them on lockdown on day 19 due to work. Last night when I got home from work at about 8pm I noticed several eggs had pipped. It’s been 24 hours with no progression but an hear some chirping. Temp is 100-102 humidity 68-70. Incubator is a...
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    Incubating Bob Whites

    I have about 42 bob white eggs in the incubator. Yesterday was day 18. I candled them to start taking turner out and getting temp and humidity right for lockdown as I work on day 20 so time is limited on that day. Anyway when candling all but about 7 of the eggs are completely black where you...
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    ➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

    Hello!! I ordered fertile bob white eggs online. We are on day of incubating. I candled to assess development and discard any that aren’t progressing. I have noticed some have this curvature to the fertile area. Some the curve is smaller than others. Veins and development are visible and are...
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    Hatching Bob Whites

    I ordered some fertile Bob white quail eggs online. We are on day 8 of incubation so I candled to see if any needed to be discarded. I have a few that have this curve in the fertile area some eggs the curve is smaller but it is still present. The development in egg is pretty much equal to that...
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    Crippled chick?????

    I was googling and also and was thinking maybe a slipped tendon also????
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    Crippled chick?????

    This little chick made 24 hours at 3 am. All day yesterday while left in incubator to dry he flopped around like a drunk sailer like the other chick that hatched shortly before it and like all the forums here said were normal. This am I now have them in small brooder with pine shavings so they...
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    Lockdown humidity

    I am having trouble getting my humidity up to 70%. I had a egg start to hatch and ended up getting shrink wrapped and dying cuz the membrane got dry and tough. The bottom of incubator is full of water with sponges to increase surface area - on top of this is a plastic rack and then shelf grip...
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    Lockdown Humidity

    Thanks. I have just read where it needed to be 70%+ for lockdown and I cannot hold there for the life of me. Like I said it’s mostly 50-60s.
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    Lockdown Humidity

    Will it hurt anything if I have to mist the walls of incubator every so often???
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    Lockdown Humidity

    I had a half of a sponge in the small dish at top of water to increase the surface area. The bottom of incubator is lined with saturated sponges and then the little tack with grip shelf liner is on top.
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