➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CindyinSD]

Are quail especially fatty? I suppose you could precook & drain before assembling.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Are quail especially fatty? I suppose you could precook & drain before assembling.

Mine are because I always put off butchering them so long. And I keep the skin.

To be fair, I like them that way! Just maybe not the most useful as a substitute for dry light chicken meat.

I will have to experiment.

 

[Rhiannon_In_Nature]

My eggs came from two local breeders at a poultry swap. I am going to be much more picky about where I get eggs in the future.

Humidity during incubation was 45 to 55% and 60 to 65% during lockdown. I had one short drop in humidity during the first few days of incubation.

Thanks for the pics and stories, it gives me hope for this little one. I have been so impressed by its tenaciousness so far.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

My eggs came from two local breeders at a poultry swap. I am going to be much more picky about where I get eggs in the future.

Humidity during incubation was 45 to 55% and 60 to 65% during lockdown. I had one short drop in humidity during the first few days of incubation.

Thanks for the pics and stories, it gives me hope for this little one. I have been so impressed by its tenaciousness so far.

That is high for initial humidity. Might be part of the issue! Never hurts to be picky, though. Maybe try 30% next hatch and see if that works better.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

(some places totally do recommend that high, we're just coming to a gradual group consensus that 20-40% seems to work better.)

 

[Rhiannon_In_Nature]

Yeah, saw the higher level recommended most places. But real life experience trumps "recommendations" any day.

 

[Kiki]

Are quail especially fatty? I suppose you could precook & drain before assembling.

This is the most fat I've seen yet.

 

[Kiki]

My eggs came from two local breeders at a poultry swap. I am going to be much more picky about where I get eggs in the future.

Humidity during incubation was 45 to 55% and 60 to 65% during lockdown. I had one short drop in humidity during the first few days of incubation.

Thanks for the pics and stories, it gives me hope for this little one. I have been so impressed by its tenaciousness so far.

Too high, for me, I like 30-35%.

 

[Kiki]

It has now been exactly (19 minutes ago) 24 hours since I set the eggs.
I'm waiting for about 30 more minutes till it gets dark so I can go candle.

 

[muddy75]

day 6 candling....5/60 eggs non-fertile.....trashed and down to 1 bator running now! 3 chicken eggs under broody at day 11ish.....so want to candle but haven’t yet. A friend picked up all my eggs to fill orders so I’m at a bakers dozen for personal use until tomorrow’s collection!!! I gave him 26 dozen!! planning a trade this weekend of 4-5 pullets for 6 or so 5 week cornishX. I get my numbers down a little with plenty ready to butcher in 3-4 weeks!!! quailies are having a ball in their new area!! I let Hodor (my lone EE chick from early April) loose to check it out and one of my quail pecked him and he was such a drama queen!! I wish I had it on video!!