➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[CoturnixComplex]

I would love to turn the alarm off, but it can't be turned off. It even says so in the user manual. I thought the humidity seemed too high. Maybe I could find and cut the wire or put the incubator out in the garage where I can't hear it.

Mine was the same way. Was supposed to be adjustable but that part broke and it would beep if it went below 45%. Pretty sure I drowned some chicks in sheer desperation to sleep through a night.

I murdered it with a screwdriver.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I'll buy a new fish tank thermometer, and may steal the one out of my fish tank for good measure as well. I have a stick on fish tank thermometer for my brooder, since I assumed (not wrong, I hope!) that a degree or so of difference wouldn't be as critical.

A teenth of a degree, not much difference, a whole degree, maybe some difference in hatch rates and timing.

 

[mixedUPturk]

I would love to turn the alarm off, but it can't be turned off. It even says so in the user manual. I thought the humidity seemed too high. Maybe I could find and cut the wire or put the incubator out in the garage where I can't hear it.

Sorry. I would be tempted to play operation with it too.

 

[el dorado quail]

Next half off day at the thrift store I'm gonna buy 2 huge ice chests and Frankenstein them into incubators or farmers market transports for when I get this joint up and running.

 

[RUNuts]

Next half off day at the thrift store I'm gonna buy 2 huge ice chests and Frankenstein them into incubators or farmers market transports for when I get this joint up and running.

Might I recommend the dorm frig conversions? Can pick up a broken frig in several select dump sites for little to nothing.

The farmer we buy from has a truck with chest freezers in the back. Cute setup.

 

[Kiki]

Second egg in a week like this.

After I got it wet:

 

[muddy75]

Okay, I have a couple questions about incubating.

Temperature: My incubator seems to run about .5-1 degrees cool. It says 100, and according to the thermometer I put inside, the temperature inside is 99-99.5 degrees. If I bump it up to 101, it gets about 99.7-100.5. Which is better?

Humidity: There's a super annoying alarm that goes off if the humidity drops to 40%, but if I add a pipette of water, it goes up to about 50% for about an hour, then drops again. If I add more, the humidity goes as high as 70%, gradually dropping. For example, I added 4 pipettes full last night before I went to bed, and it was at 42% when I got up this morning. Is that okay?

you should be able to change the alarm on humidity in your menu and as @Texas Kiki said, you may want to run humidity lower before lockdown. my in-house incubators run at approximately 30% prior to lockdown. my new one out in shed is running 40-45 (closer to outdoor humidity) with all the rain we’ve had but i left it higher as it has eggs I took from broody chickens and they are due for lockdown tomorrow.

 

[muddy75]

had to cull my pharaoh baby today due to splay leg, and lost one in the “overcrowded” brooder cage. hubby said he would get to work building better brooders ASAP but only another week or so and I should be able to start introducing the larger ones to the aviary (if the flooding ever stops!). i took lots of pics tonight of some of my different colors and some of my “craziest mutant birds” will start uploading soon!

 

[muddy75]

this first montage is of little benjamin button playing the part of a pheasant or partridge!

 

[muddy75]

Next is quail snowies scarlet male this is “Dot” Possible Grau Benjamin button