➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[FortCluck]

I'd run the bator at 25ish % and not bump it any higher than 50% for hatch time.
I also would tell you to not bump it up until you see an external pip.

This advice has worked wonders for all my hatches. My bators have been running for 6 months straight... oh yeah I bought another so now I have a hatching bator. It makes life easier!

 

[Matieus27]

Guys help! Today is day 17/18 of incubating and I have nothing, I decided to candle and see where their aircells were at only to find they weren't nearly close to hatch nor showing movement! They look like day 18 on a chicken egg except 1 which is alive and looks like it'll be arriving in a day or two, but the others are way behind it although all similar to each other and none show any movement, we had a awful wind storm around 2 days ago, is it possible there was a power outage and only one survived when it started back up? How long should I wait before I give up? The live egg looks like it's gonna be another 48 hrs around so how long should I wait on the rest? My pigeons just hatched a baby that they started the day before I did so it's been at least 17 days(pigeon baby took 19 days) can quail incubate over 20 days? Cause it looks like it'll hit day 20 by the time the rest of the eggs would be ready to hatch.

It sounds like you had a lower temperature throughout the hatch for them to be behind like that I would get a calibrated thermometer like @Kiki said.

 

[CindyinSD]

@Kiki ugh yeah that's probably it what's the standard most go by on here humidity wise then? I found everything from 30%-70% online. Im not gonna order more quail eggs till I have a new job I think simply a waist of money if it doesn't work out especially when I have basically no income right now hoping the surviving baby hatches in a day or 2 but whith my luck it'll probably be a no go

Sorry you've had such bad luck. I think that (for you) you'll have a much better time of it following Kiki's advice. I had been wondering why some people do well with 45-55% humidity and others need to run the bator dry until lockdown.

From what I've been able to learn, it seems that the higher your altitude, the more humidity you need. I keep mine around 45-55% and I don't worry if it goes higher for a few days or more. It works great for me. The reason for this is that the moisture inside the egg evaporates faster at high altitudes (I'm around a mile high) than it does lower down. The air is thinner here, making it easier for water to evaporate and for my eggs to dry out--thus my need for higher humidity.

I know it's frustrating finding out this stuff too late, when you've tried so hard to learn it beforehand. I really think you should try again if you can. There are a lot of folks around right now wanting quail and quail eggs. But do keep in mind, you'll need cages or an aviary and of course feed. They need a very high protein feed (gamebird +-30% if you can get it).

 

[tacothechicken]

@CindyinSD thanks for the advice I'll definitely try again but I'll probably wait a bit, I have a brooder, grow out pen and aviary all set up to house quail along whith starter and of course plenty of incubator room(I have a 45 egg capacity incubator plus an rcom mini) just finished the aviary so I may out my energy into planting and improving that for now so when I do have a successful hatch I'll have a super awesome pen at the ready. I think at least one egg will be hatching as it was still alive when I looked last night, figure I'll wait till it tries to hatches and see if by chance any other ones are more developed since or possibly still alive since I've never had quail I can't say my observations are accurate, I'm just basing it off my chicken experience. I'll let you know if it hatches! If it does it'll be one spoiled baby

 

[tacothechicken]

Also what's a good leg band for quail chicks and a good adult sized quail band? Lol I've only ever banded my pigeons and ducks which are two totally different ballgames, so I have no clue what quail might be

 

[tacothechicken]

Luckily I think the one good egg will hatch and 2 more might be alive, just delayed by a few days

 

[R2elk]

From what I've been able to learn, it seems that the higher your altitude, the more humidity you need. I keep mine around 45-55% and I don't worry if it goes higher for a few days or more. It works great for me. The reason for this is that the moisture inside the egg evaporates faster at high altitudes (I'm around a mile high) than it does lower down. The air is thinner here, making it easier for water to evaporate and for my eggs to dry out--thus my need for higher humidity.

This can apply to local eggs. It does not apply to shipped eggs going from low elevation to high elevation. It also has a lot to do with the incubator that you are using. I am at one mile high elevation, if I ran my cabinet incubator even at 40% humidity, I would never be able to get the air cell to the size it needs to be for a successful hatch.

 

[CindyinSD]

I do the same with shipped eggs and my own eggs. Weird. And none of those I've bought have been from high altitude locations, that I recall.

 

[muddy75]

my ringnecks go into lockdown on friday and i just received notification that my melanistic eggs are shipping tomorrow!!
all 4 ringneck chicks from first hatch are doing well!!

 

[ShrekDawg]

my ringnecks go into lockdown on friday and i just received notification that my melanistic eggs are shipping tomorrow!!
all 4 ringneck chicks from first hatch are doing well!!