➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

Houston we have a problem.
I think Batty jinxed me.
One of these had internally pipped.
I'm thinking maybe he got stuck...

The lighter one died the day before but I don't know why.

 

[Kiki]

QB#9 - the rosetta hatch is confirmed at 3 boys and 1 hen. The 2 wild colored boys were separated with their own hens and I had high hopes. Solid wild scalped rosetta hen. Both were butchered. White feather, wild colored was put in with older hens and he attacked a white one. He was pulled out for her to heal, but her coop mates finished the job for him and started on the Jumbo hen. Butchered white hen today.

Meanwhile, back at the holding coop the other rosetta colored one crowed at me. HE is in there with the other Jumbo hens and now with the hens from the other breeding cage.

Back to the plan book. Down 4 quail. One of the 4 week olds was pulled also. Tiny thing.

yeah, introductions and manners are a thing. Will see if the rosetta MALE behaves. White feather wild male will get one more chance after the hormones settle.

I got 19 eggs today.

 

[Kiki]

I got 19 eggs this evening.
I can't remember how many I got this morning.


My homegrowns cage of ten...the one that has ALL boys...I've gotten 3 eggs two days in a row.
They all look exactly alike...expect two obvious regular looking boys.

These are the homegrown Tibetan look alikes.

 

[Kiki]

The darker one above...could he have been too big to turn and get out?

Too big because of my too low humidity?
Shoot I should have weighed them from the get go.

 

[007Sean]

My pheasant has laid an egg in her coop nest the past 2 days straight!! I’m collecting the first week-10 days to put in the incubator but then considering leaving next batch to see if she will hatch them??? Any thoughts @007Sean @R2elk ????

If she's broody? You could try and see if she will set. What your proposing to do, alot of breeders do!...I have done it before with mixed results....collected the first 10 or 12 eggs to incubate, then if the hen was still intent on setting, I'd let her set.

 

[007Sean]

The darker one above...could he have been too big to turn and get out?

Too big because of my too low humidity?
Shoot I should have weighed them from the get go.

In general, they get 'stuck' when humidity is too high...that's not a problem in you're case, though.
In you're case the low humidity, most likely contributed to the membrane being too tightly surrounding the embryo...air space to large, it couldn't turn/position itself to hatch.

 

[Nabiki]

I'm beginning to think that treating the button eggs the same as I did coturnix eggs is why I got four chicks out of 27 eggs. That, and I think some of the eggs were as much as two weeks old. If I set some again, I think I will put them in a separate incubator from my coturnix and try higher humidity.

 

[BantyChooks]

I think I incubated my buttons at 40 to 45% humidity. I don't remember, I didn't keep notes.

 

[007Sean]

I'm beginning to think that treating the button eggs the same as I did coturnix eggs is why I got four chicks out of 27 eggs. That, and I think some of the eggs were as much as two weeks old. If I set some again, I think I will put them in a separate incubator from my coturnix and try higher humidity.

I incubate all my quail and pheasant eggs at 43% RH and raise it to 50-55% during hatch. Through the years I have found I have the best results with these settings....you're results may differ?

 

[Nabiki]

I incubate all my quail and pheasant eggs at 43% RH and raise it to 50-55% during hatch. Through the years I have found I have the best results with these settings....you're results may differ?

For my coturnix that was too high. I had much better hatch results keeping the humidity around 30% and raising it to 40-45% during hatch. Now I have to try button eggs at a higher humidity to see what happens.