Recent content by CoturnixCurt

If the buttons are too old then they may already be past their egg laying prime. It might be time to get some more buttons lol.

I am going to try another dry incubation and see if I get the same results. The buttons are just kinda the wife's little hobby so the low hatch rates of those don't bother me much. If I do get the same results then I suppose I will have to incubate them separately lol. I'll try to keep you updated!

Hmm well that's strange. Maybe it was just a coincidence

Day old coturnix with some buttons mixed in:)

Breeders

6 week old bachelor pad

2 week olds that won't sit for a pic lol

Haha yes it is very interesting. I feel like I'm in science class doing controlled experiments. But I guess in 2 weeks I'll know if there is actually something to this humidity thing.

I'm not sure I'm thinking they are both from Asia but that actually makes quite a bit of sense. I'm just surprised that in all the reading I've done I've never seen anything about them needing a higher humidity. Another thing that is weird is that I actually stop turning them 4 days before the...

Well I just got home from work again and now I have 4 more cots hatched and 1 more button. So that makes 26 of 30 cots and 3 of 30 buttons. Pretty strange if you ask me. Normally I get 10-15 of each. Usually I use 50% then 65 humidity but I decided to try a dry incubation. So it stayed around 35...

I'm fairly new to hatching and incubating as well. But I have found that it is best to try not to watch and wait on them to hatch lol. The the more time I spend watching and checking on them, the more I want to open the lid and intervene. I like when there are maybe a few pipped when I leave for...

I'm fairly new to hatching and incubating and normally I can search and find my answers here. But today's hatch gave me a question that I couldn't find an answer to so I thought I'd make my first post. I've been hatching and incubating buttons and coturnix together all year and normally get a...