➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

Well, my incubator did it again on day 8 - over 140 degrees. Not sure what is causing it but I will be taking the whole thing apart and rewiring it to see if that fixes it. I will have to get the other incubator going if I want chicks apparently.

Shoot.
What the heck.

 

[Kiki]

38 went in, 28 made it to lockdown. Second chick kicked its way out an hour after first, but third just finally hatched now. Hopefully the current three chirpers will encourage the rest to get down to business.

 

[igorsMistress]

Please tell me you have already candled them all at least once already.

You and candling

I have a couple questions for you. We're fairly close in temps and weather this time of year. Where do you keep the eggs you're going to hatch? My house temp is at 72* and I've read that's too warm but I can't put em in the fridge...
Also, when you were checking fertility did you see a definite ring around the dot clearly or was it questionable and you took a chance? Quail eggs are so small and my eyes are so bad!

 

[BReeder!]

The quail cages in my shed coop are slowly coming along. I was able to get out there this weekend thanks to a break in the weather, 20F+ on Saturday and 40F+ yesterday - I'm sure that's not considered a break to some of you but it is for us here in Illinois. I have the floors and ceilings done for 2 of the 3 cages inside the coop. The lower cage has planks installed in the back and side to cover the gap between studs and the bit of coated wiring and nails that would otherwise be exposed. I need to build the third one above these two and then put doors across the front of each and something between them for catching droppings. I also still need to figure out a water and feed system. I have poultry cups that I want to try to use. I might decide to hang feeder troughs on the front and have larger openings for heads to stick through to eat, but I would like more of a gravity fed system that would feed all 3 cages from one bucket of feed high up.
Excuse all the tools. I'll be putting some storage shelves on the side opposite the quail cages to tidy things up. The red boxes are outlines of the front of the cages - sorry my editing skills are limited to Paint.

 

[Kiki]

You and candling

I have a couple questions for you. We're fairly close in temps and weather this time of year. Where do you keep the eggs you're going to hatch? My house temp is at 72* and I've read that's too warm but I can't put em in the fridge...
Also, when you were checking fertility did you see a definite ring around the dot clearly or was it questionable and you took a chance? Quail eggs are so small and my eyes are so bad!

I've been storing my eggs in an egg carton in my kitchen cabinet.
I do not check for fertility in the egg because I can't tell one way or the other.

 

[Kiki]

You and candling

I have a couple questions for you. We're fairly close in temps and weather this time of year. Where do you keep the eggs you're going to hatch? My house temp is at 72* and I've read that's too warm but I can't put em in the fridge...
Also, when you were checking fertility did you see a definite ring around the dot clearly or was it questionable and you took a chance? Quail eggs are so small and my eyes are so bad!

Nutty is running a fertility hatch right now for me... That is why I want him to candle because I'd like to know about how many are developing.

 

[BullChick]

The quail cages in my shed coop are slowly coming along. I was able to get out there this weekend thanks to a break in the weather, 20F+ on Saturday and 40F+ yesterday - I'm sure that's not considered a break to some of you but it is for us here in Illinois. I have the floors and ceilings done for 2 of the 3 cages inside the coop. The lower cage has planks installed in the back and side to cover the gap between studs and the bit of coated wiring and nails that would otherwise be exposed. I need to build the third one above these two and then put doors across the front of each and something between them for catching droppings. I also still need to figure out a water and feed system. I have poultry cups that I want to try to use. I might decide to hang feeder troughs on the front and have larger openings for heads to stick through to eat, but I would like more of a gravity fed system that would feed all 3 cages from one bucket of feed high up.
Excuse all the tools. I'll be putting some storage shelves on the side opposite the quail cages to tidy things up. The red boxes are outlines of the front of the cages - sorry my editing skills are limited to Paint.

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Use PVC, cut where you want them to eat, and have it all come from the bucket (or big ‘ol tote) situated above.

 

[igorsMistress]

I've been storing my eggs in an egg carton in my kitchen cabinet.
I do not check for fertility in the egg because I can't tell one way or the other.

Ok thank you I'll try that. I'm going to collect this week and put a small batch in the bator to see what happens.

Nutty is running a fertility hatch right now for me... That is why I want him to candle because I'd like to know about how many are developing.

Makes sense, I'm just giving you a hard time

 

[Sara L]

thermostat issue?

Possibly. It's an Inkbird thermostat, but this is only the 4th incubation for the setup. It's probably going to take some sleuthing.

 

[Kiki]

Possibly. It's an Inkbird thermostat, but this is only the 4th incubation for the setup. It's probably going to take some sleuthing.

start a thread about that thermostat I bet there's others on here that have run into issues and maybe no the trick for it?