➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

I think it's an equally viable option as long as your regular humidity stays ~30%+! People have great luck with it. I haven't tried it in my 10-20% zone, but I might as an experiment.

Now that I'm for sure getting fertile eggs I have lots of experience ideas coming to mind.

This is going to be a fun year.

 

[Kiki]

Well I did some reading and seems here has been some mixed results. This my take on it or the way I understand it. So I may be off in feft field. It seems almost all humidity gauges are off a bit. So if you have a gauge that reads high you would benefit from the regular hatching. And if you had one that reads low you would benefit from dry hatching?

You missed an important step.
You MUST salt test every humidity gauge.

 

[Kiki]

I did it!
I put the babies out!
They will not be getting a light.
For today they are in two of the three cages. 10 and 9.

This girl looks just like one of her moms.

 

[CayugaJana]

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.

 

[BullChick]

Oh my goodness, I wouldn’t want to assist a quail hatch. Too tiny!

 

[muddy75]

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!!

 

[Kiki]

Oh my goodness, I wouldn’t want to assist a quail hatch. Too tiny!

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

 

[CoturnixComplex]

@Texas Kiki

My candler is the cheap $15 one from Magicfly on amazon. I never bothered candling/pulling my eggs before because it was so hard to be certain, but now I'm an addict and have to be stopped from obsessively checking them all the time I guess by "pro candler" I should have specified I meant "not flashlight"

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!!

Unfortunately, not legally :/

 

[Kiki]

@Texas Kiki

My candler is the cheap $15 one from Magicfly on amazon. I never bothered candling/pulling my eggs before because it was so hard to be certain, but now I'm an addict and have to be stopped from obsessively checking them all the time I guess by "pro candler" I should have specified I meant "not flashlight"



Unfortunately, not legally :/

Is the tip of it small enough for the quail eggs? It looks kinda big in the photo.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Is the tip of it small enough for the quail eggs? It looks kinda big in the photo.

It flips! Mine works great with the small end up. I mean, it's still a lot easier with the lights off, but it seems much clearer than with a flashlight.