➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[007Sean]

I don’t add water in my incubator until the last 3 days. My humidity normally runs 30-50% in the winter and around 60% during spring and summer. I add water up to 70% the last 3 days. If I go lower than 70% they get stuck and die while hatching.

By stuck, do you mean shrink wrapped? Because shrink wrapped and stuck are two different conditions.

 

[dpenning]

I'm in the same boat but I don't train dogs.View attachment 1660772

Beautiful!

 

[007Sean]

Quick question: can you re-ship eggs from npip breeder if you not npip? I know @Texas Kiki ”needs” some more yeller in her flock and I’ve just ordered 60 snowy/ssc eggs to be hand delivered by myshire next weekend (and could up the order to more)!!! To set as soon as current batch hatches!!

You could as long as you didn't get caught. The paperwork, that should be in the box you receive will have the breeders info and your info on the paper. So if you get caught it will be a major headache; ie, costly court, attorney fees and fines.
Just have the breeder your getting them from, have them ship to Kiki, as a gift. You'll need Kikis address, phone number etc. to give to the breeder.

 

[007Sean]

Never assist a quail, it's my new motto.
If it's meant to be it will be.

 

[Kiki]

You could as long as you didn't get caught. The paperwork, that should be in the box you receive will have the breeders info and your info on the paper. So if you get caught it will be a major headache; ie, costly court, attorney fees and fines.
Just have the breeder your getting them from, have them ship to Kiki, as a gift. You'll need Kikis address, phone number etc. to give to the breeder.

I'm a member of the witness protection program.

Undercover boss.

What ever it's called.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I have more wrong-end air cells than I would like. Seem to be all on the shipped eggs which makes sense but I did let them sit for about 30 hours so that's annoying. I will mark them to keep an eye on them - there seem to be about a half dozen.

I tossed five more, one of which started weeping, which I have not had happen before :/ Everything was well sterilized but I seem to be having more bacteria issue than previously. Oh well. Why I'm running two incubators and switching gloves between. The smaller one is definitely running happier overall so far, no surprise there.

 

[007Sean]

I'm a member of the witness protection program.

Undercover boss.

What ever it's called.

 

[007Sean]

I have more wrong-end air cells than I would like. Seem to be all on the shipped eggs which makes sense but I did let them sit for about 30 hours so that's annoying. I will mark them to keep an eye on them - there seem to be about a half dozen.

I tossed five more, one of which started weeping, which I have not had happen before :/ Everything was well sterilized but I seem to be having more bacteria issue than previously. Oh well. Why I'm running two incubators and switching gloves between. The smaller one is definitely running happier overall so far, no surprise there.

At least they have a chance of reaching hatch stage. Some very expensive pheasant eggs I've ordered before had tiny bubbles and the membranes completely detached....I think the seller shooked them up before shipping. They looked scrambled in the shell. 1st time I wrote it off as handling while in shipment, 2nd time they were the same way and also had been placed in the box with the pointed end facing up! never going to order from that breeder again. When I e-mailed him and let them know this wasn't my first rodeo with hatching shipped eggs....all I got back was, "I'm sorry"

 

[BullChick]

At least they have a chance of reaching hatch stage. Some very expensive pheasant eggs I've ordered before had tiny bubbles and the membranes completely detached....I think the seller shooked them up before shipping. They looked scrambled in the shell. 1st time I wrote it off as handling while in shipment, 2nd time they were the same way and also had been placed in the box with the pointed end facing up! never going to order from that breeder again. When I e-mailed him and let them know this wasn't my first rodeo with hatching shipped eggs....all I got back was, "I'm sorry"

I won one of the BYC contests, and the person sent me a copy of the shipping I was responsible for. Almost $100, and every egg was broken. Then I found out they were not purebred, but mutts.

 

[RUNuts]

I run my bator dry (stays around 30%) and only add a little water at the end to raise the humidity up to about 50% when they start hatching.

It works for me.

@Kullas Before I installed a fan, with ambient humidity in the 50% range the dry method would work. Kiki runs a still air incubator. After fan installation, the humidity would nosedive to 20%, the lower detection limit of the hygrometers. Really dry the eggs out. I chose to run forced and add water.

Keep this in mind as you run the experiments. Details. The devil is always in the details.