➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[007Sean]

Good luck @Nabiki !

I have some eggs in right now that sat for 1-6 days at 95+ degrees, then 24 hrs at 70 degrees before going in bator. I candled at day 3 and saw a fear clears, a few developing, and a lot of what looked like early quitters like I expected. Got to do it again today at day 6. I hope yours don't end up sitting in the heat as long. I've learned my lesson, always have an incubator fired up before visiting quail friends.

68°F to 72°F is generally considered the 'cut off' point for embryos that have started to develop, it's also considered the point inwhich they will start developing! If by chance the internal egg temp doesn't go below 68 to 72°F then they will have a chance to develop to full term.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

68°F to 72°F is generally considered the 'cut off' point for embryos that have started to develop, it's also considered the point inwhich they will start developing! If by chance the internal egg temp doesn't go below 68 to 72°F then they will have a chance to develop to full term.

Yes mine unhelpfully were right around there so no telling for certain. I saw a few that looked good the other day, though! Probably the ones that hadn't sat long enough in the heat to develop much initially.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Ugh this shipping talk has me nervous. Celadon eggs are supposed to ship today or tomorrow, gonna go out on a limb and say tomorrow because it's almost cutoff time for outgoing....

I mean, the altitude changes can't do anything good for them, but at least we are 20+ degrees cooler up here than in the valley! Hopefully they come through Reno, it's supposed to be mid-70's there too this week.

 

[007Sean]

I had some Yellow Golden eggs shipped a few years ago. They stayed in the mail box all day...it was 98°F for about 6 hours of the day. Temp in the mail box had to have gotten to 120 or 140°F.
The shipper forgot that I put a 'Hold at PO' on them, I called him and told him what had happened, he sent replacement eggs.
I set the eggs anyway, didn't hope for much but 6/8 hatched.
The replacement eggs 3/8 hatched.
The eggs that set in the mail box had a better hatch rate than the replacement eggs! Go figure that one!

 

[HuffleClaw]

3 weeks old and now out with the big girls.

 

[Kiki]

3 weeks old and now out with the big girls.
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I can't see the pics.

 

[HuffleClaw]

I can't see the pics.

How about now?

 

[Kiki]

How about now?

 

[Kiki]

31 chicks now, several hatched today. It is day 19. The first one hatched on the 16th day. 15 eggs left in bator. Is it normal for a hatch to be this spread out?

What's the final count for this hatch?

 

[mixedUPturk]

I kinda agree with R2elk, I haven't notice that letting them settle has done anything to help the air cell become stable....even though, I put them in the bator to settle and not on a table or counter.

Well also while theyre warm theyre more susceptible to breaking the chalaza thats the point in the cooling time its kinda hardening that. Again havent incubated many shipped eggs just info ive collected from other peoples experiences. I believe you two that maybe it doesnt do that much, and i understand youve each got many years of Successful experience. It would be great to document and compare. I swear when i set the silkie eggs from mr @abevilleoz i had settled them and the air cells half way stabalized. Hes in South Carolina not active here anymore so it was a little distance. Several had saddle air cells but i hatched a couple of em.