➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[FortCluck]

No. 45% is started at lock down. Dry hatching is about 30% humidity.

I dry hatch as well. If I try it another way everything gets messed up.

 

[Nabiki]

I'm still waiting for more to hatch. This little one is lonely!

 

[Nabiki]

Finally! They're starting to hatch, so little red will have company in the brooder soon.

 

[muddy75]

my finches have 2 in one nest just about ready to leave, and 4 more hatched so far in the 2nd nest!! I may have to rethink the nest situation SOON!! My broody buttons are still pretty serious too and nest has 7 eggs I had to release my last coturnix from the subaviary yesterday because the budgie was way too enamoured with it!

 

[Nabiki]

These guys are hatching so slow! So many pips, so few zips. 13 are out now.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

Oh my .... the one in the left will be a beauty

 

[Nabiki]

Now they're starting to zip! 5 more are out.

 

[Nabiki]

Just over half have hatched so far. I have some really interesting colours!

 

[ButtonBag]

It's coming to the end of day 13 for my button quail eggs so they've just gone into lockdown. They're so small and dark I haven't been able to candle them at all, so I have no idea what to expect!

I've been keeping the humidity between 40% and 45% so far, I've now got a fairly large shallow dish of water under the shelf at the bottom of the incubator (it's a Janoel 12) but the humidity doesn't seem to be getting up past 55%, and it's too tall and tilting the tray slightly. I'm considering filling the entire base to try to get it closer to 65% which I'm hoping will be about right, but worried about it getting too high that way — I've seen so much conflicting info on humidity for buttons!

 

[Nabiki]

It's coming to the end of day 13 for my button quail eggs so they've just gone into lockdown. They're so small and dark I haven't been able to candle them at all, so I have no idea what to expect!

I've been keeping the humidity between 40% and 45% so far, I've now got a fairly large shallow dish of water under the shelf at the bottom of the incubator (it's a Janoel 12) but the humidity doesn't seem to be getting up past 55%, and it's too tall and tilting the tray slightly. I'm considering filling the entire base to try to get it closer to 65% which I'm hoping will be about right, but worried about it getting too high that way — I've seen so much conflicting info on humidity for buttons!

In my limited experience (I've only done two button hatches), they do better with higher humidity than coturnix. I got much better hatch results from my second batch where I raised the humidity to about 50% during incubation and up to 60-70% during hatch.