➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Nabiki]

And then there were two. Both of my batches have hatched one by one over days. Is this normal?

 

[Kiki]

And then there were two. Both of my batches have hatched one by one over days. Is this normal?

How many days?
Do you know your bator well? Know if it has hot or cool spots?

 

[RUNuts]

What is normal? Mine spread out.

 

[Nabiki]

How many days?
Do you know your bator well? Know if it has hot or cool spots?

It's a really small incubator. I put a thermometer sensor right in the middle of the bunch and regulated the temperature from there. When I first had 3 thermometers, I measured front, back, and center and they were all within .2 degrees.

Let's see, this would be day 16 or 17? I'm not sure how they're counted. They went into the incubator on the evening of Friday, the 12th.

 

[mixedUPturk]

It's a really small incubator. I put a thermometer sensor right in the middle of the bunch and regulated the temperature from there. When I first had 3 thermometers, I measured front, back, and center and they were all within .2 degrees.

Let's see, this would be day 16 or 17? I'm not sure how they're counted. They went into the incubator on the evening of Friday, the 12th.

From the 12th today is day 17 so the first one came early thats saying your temps are slightly high. Before u set more i would put half a dozen shot glasses in it and see what the temps look like all over the place in the glasses so that its simulating eggs. Less water for quail eggs like enough to be at the eggs level. Take ur time, mess around and learn your individual incubator as well as you can.

 

[Sara L]

It's a really small incubator. I put a thermometer sensor right in the middle of the bunch and regulated the temperature from there. When I first had 3 thermometers, I measured front, back, and center and they were all within .2 degrees.

Let's see, this would be day 16 or 17? I'm not sure how they're counted. They went into the incubator on the evening of Friday, the 12th.

Could it have started incubating before you put all the eggs in the incubator? Either that or the hotspots like mixedUPturk mentioned. I can't remember if you said already, is it a still air incubator? Those tend to have a little more temperature fluctuation.

 

[Nabiki]

Could it have started incubating before you put all the eggs in the incubator? Either that or the hotspots like mixedUPturk mentioned. I can't remember if you said already, is it a still air incubator? Those tend to have a little more temperature fluctuation.

They shouldn't have. They arrived Tuesday, and they sat on my counter (mid 70s room temp) until Friday because I had another batch in the incubator (bad planning on my part, accidentally winning that auction).

It's a forced air incubator. When I researched incubators, the two things that seemed to be stressed were fan and egg turner.

When I got the incubator set up, I had a choice of slightly low or slightly high on the temp, so I asked here and remember getting the answer that it was better to incubate a bit high rather than low, so that's what I aimed for. Temps on my first batch ended up a bit low (97-99.8) because I didn't have four thermometers like I do now until the middle of the incubation (I just had one, and not a very accurate one at that).

This batch was more in the 98.5-100.5 degree range, but the extremes were rare. It was in the 99.5-100.3 degree range most of the time.

I'm probably done with hatching for a while now, but I learned a lot from these two hatches.

Edit: Thanks to all of you for the knowledge that you've shared with me! I wouldn't have learned nearly as much without you.

 

[el dorado quail]

Ahhh jmf is resending my 120 eggs this week. Friend donated an incubator and picked up another one (no coolerbator for me yet) today. One is like this (not sure the egg capacity)and other is a hova bator styro one(140 quail egg capacit)?

Should I use alcohol to clean them? The dome guy is tricky with humidity, I'm thinking I need to put some sponge pieces in the water trays. Gonna run them tomorrow after I clear space in the basement for them. If the big one is stable should I just run that one or if they're both good should I split the eggs up into each one?

 

[el dorado quail]

When I sneak up on them and see legs like this always freak out for a good second.
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That's all my babies are doing it's funnyyy. My mom got me up in the middle of the night because they were "dead" nope just yoga sleeping

 

[007Sean]

Hey @mixedUPturk , I saw you were looking through my albums of buttons and pheasants....those pics were taken for specific reasons except for the hummer....they look terrible because they were molting. Someone asked how I keep my birds looking so good, so I posted some pics of what they look like when they molt! pretty sad looking birds when they molt!