➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[BullChick]

3 & 4 are alive

I can't believe I was so stupid (impatient) and tampered with them aaarrrggghhh so mad at myself

Did you learn your lesson? Then all is not lost.

 

[007Sean]

Can you house different kinds of quail in the same pen?

If it's large enough to not 'crowd' the different species. I've run Bob's and Blues together and Gambels and Valleys. My Mountain quail I have always raise with themselves. Same with Cot's, always by themselves.

 

[Crazydoglady99]

Did you learn your lesson? Then all is not lost.

Errrmmm.. I learnt my lesson many hatches ago.. But I couldn't keep my damn hands off my own perfect little eggs

Anywho, come on the rest of the little popcorns!!!

 

[BullChick]

I find I’m getting too annoyed with information I find online. I’d rather get bad information here.
My quail are making noises I thought they couldn’t make yet. Should 3-week-olds be able to make... trilling and cooing noises?

 

[BullChick]

Errrmmm.. I learnt my lesson many hatches ago.. But I couldn't keep my damn hands off my own perfect little eggs

Anywho, come on the rest of the little popcorns!!!

 

[Crazydoglady99]

Mumma???

 

[007Sean]

Thank you guys! I picked the eggs up from a local so no shipping but I don't know the temp of where they were stored.

I'm going to wait until day 10 check again.

Contrary to popular belief and what is generally posted on various sites, fertile eggs will begin developing when a constant temerature of around 72°F is reached.
This one reason when I receive a shipment of eggs late in the season, I put them immediately in the incubator with the turner off, to 'rest' after shipping.
If you let them rest in a cool spot/place, you have effectively killed the developing embryos.
On a few occasions I've had the shippers not adhere to my instructions of putting on the box for the PO to contact me for a 'will call' and the eggs sat in the mailbox for several hours. They were already incubating by the time I got home from work, so I immediately put them in the bator.

 

[007Sean]

I find I’m getting too annoyed with information I find online. I’d rather get bad information here.
My quail are making noises I thought they couldn’t make yet. Should 3-week-olds be able to make... trilling and cooing noises?

If they are....then they are...I guess they didn't read that tidbit of info on whether or not they can trill or coo by that age.

 

[TheLaboratoryBF]

Hmm. I'm sure you've been asked this a million times, but you've got separate temp and humidity monitors on there?

I made that mistake my first batch thinking it couldn't be *that* off. My hatch rate exploded after I fixed that.

They may have also just come in with some bacteria present that's going to town now.

Yeah just lmk! I'm in a bit of a hen-deficit at the moment as well but I've got plenty of hatching eggs and little fancy males. I might end up starting another hatch soon, too, and I'd be happy to save you some pullets from that one.

Yes, I have two external thermometers (one non-digital calibrated with freezing and boiling temps and a second digital calibrated to the first one) and a calibrated hygrometer (sealed bag, salt paste, 75% method). The incubator thermometer is pretty much spot on with the external thermometers but the incubator humidity readout varies (sometimes it matches, sometimes not). I go by the humidity on the digital thermometer/hygrometer since I know it’s calibrated. Humidity is generally kept between 40-55% (it did get up to 65% a few days ago when the environmental relative humidity was high due to a storm rolling through.

Depending on how this hatch goes I would definitely be interested in some hatching eggs...don’t want to give up after my first try and want to learn as much as possible.

 

[007Sean]

I find I’m getting too annoyed with information I find online. I’d rather get bad information here.
My quail are making noises I thought they couldn’t make yet. Should 3-week-olds be able to make... trilling and cooing noises?

On a similar note. The first time I ever had Button quail, I didn't know what kind of call or noises to expect, I was awaken by a horrible hissing sound one night, I thought there was a monster from a B- horror movie loose in my house. First time you hear it, it will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck!