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Please resist the urge to open the incubator to look closer or candle. Humidity drop can quickly dry up the membrane and cause shrink wrap. Yellow membrane is not a good sign.

So I pickled some eggs the first time about 5 days ago, vacuum sealed it after done. After 4-5 days my wife and I couldn't wait so opened up one jar to try out. It was so so, nothing to write home about. Hopefully it'll get better after 2 weeks. One thing I didn't like was how "hard" it was...

I have first hand experience with those collars: they don't even work on chickens. Had to cull both of my roosters last year. Coturnix crowing is really not that bad even at night, unless you have really picky neighbors. Keep them completely in the dark at night and they won't crow. Usually.

First week in the family room. Second week either they're out or I'm out, the wife said. That settled it backyard they go. Make sure to maintain temperature and protect from nocturnal predators.

I was hoping the turning method would make a difference too. Probably would have if I'd had better fertility rate. My feed is good. Eggs are from my birds. I keep a ratio of 5-7 hens to 1 roo to keep them less stressful. Plenty of room. I think it's the age. A couple cages the birds are 9...

FWIW ... I just want to come back and report the result of my experiment. Left tray was washed eggs, right tray unwashed. The result? No difference in hatch rate. Both trays I got about 20% "glowing" eggs (no sign of development, most likely due to infertility). And both trays I got about...

This one from Amazon should work well. Or any of their dual function units. They'll all be within 1 degree F accuracy so you may want to compare / calibrate the temperature with a reliable thermometer and go from there. Good luck.

what about bringing back just eggs for hatching?

Thanks. That's very interesting to know. Maybe this explains what I thought was a low fertility rate. I've had about 20% "glowing" eggs that I thought was infertile. I keep ratio of 5-7 hens per roo to keep it low stress for the hens. I thought that such high ratio explained the low fertile...

You can do it quickly and FatDaddy gave us an excellent tip with the spray bottle. I'm going to have a spray bottle ready from now on. Make sure your brooder is warm enough, with warm water available. Use pebbles to prevent drowning. Dip their peaks in the water once so they know where to...

Here's my OLD automatic eggs turning system, just rolling them back and forth 3 times a day. And here's my NEW manual eggs turning approach, rocking the whole tray of eggs 2-3 times a day. (BTW eggs on the left tray were washed, the right ones weren't. From your washing note...

This is the best explanation of what's going on at pipping and could explain why I have lost so many at this stage. Thanks Fat Daddy. I'm trying a different approach to eggs turning and keeping them upright at lock down this time to see if it will make a difference. (I also tried another...

I train mine to use horizontal waterer at around 2-3 weeks. May take a little time - take out other water source, use a thin, small stick to poke the nipple from a distance so water would sip out, wait for some chicks to take it. Once a few of them get it, the rest will follow. For the first...

I use a 30 gallon tote box for brooder. I wired a 250W red bulb through a dimmer and adjust so I can achieve the right temperature. I have a thermometer in the brooder, but the best indicator is just watching the chicks whether they huddle up to keep warm (too cold) or scatter away from the...

Instead of tossing the eggs that glow, I boil them and save and feed them as supplement to the chicks when they hatch. I read somewhere that more protein is good for them the early days. Is this a bad idea?

Good question. My wild estimate with my jumbo Coturnix is 50 lbs for 20 birds per month, or .08 lbs per day per bird. Window of error is about 25%.

My rough estimate is 20 adult jumbo Coturnix consuming about 50 lbs of feed per month. At one time I had 60 quails so that's 150 lbs of feed. That's a lot of feed! I don't know how much of that converts to poop - maybe you can find some data there for adult quails. All the poop goes into...

Links please. I can't find it on their website. Thanks.

That's a good question, and no they are not double yokers. I did the autopsy afterward and found single dead chicks inside. Incidentally among these large eggs I commonly see them start pipping out middle or smaller end, not the larger end, which probably means the head got stuck in the middle...