Adventures in Incubating Shipped Eggs

[Kiki]

How to Candle Coturnix Quail Eggs?

@KikisGirls this post has nice photos of quail eggs at 1 week

Thank you!

 

[koturnix]

I have to wait 4 more days to know for sure?

That is too long!

Hahahah I just want to fast forward to hatching day already.

 

[koturnix]

I had pet rats growing up. Loved them!

Same here! They are pretty awesome, I hear they can learn to do tricks as well.

 

[koturnix]

Well I don't like her doing that!
I need to have a nice chat with her and explain that it may look nice but it doesn't help me to see into the egg.

Probably not as bad as you trying to see into your dark shell chicken eggs but geez...Have I mentioned I am not a fan of spots?

I hear the quail egg pattern depends on their bedding/habitat. Maybe if you keep them on white sand they will lay spotless eggs?

I have 1 spotless egg (one of the cracked shipped ones) so I can't try to raise quails that lay spotless eggs just yet...

 

[Kiki]

I hear the quail egg pattern depends on their bedding/habitat. Maybe if you keep them on white sand they will lay spotless eggs?

I have 1 spotless egg (one of the cracked shipped ones) so I can't try to raise quails that lay spotless eggs just yet...

Maybe I can just paint them white!

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Maybe I can just paint them white!

i don't think painting them white will help with candling!

 

[oregonkat]

I had pet rats growing up. Loved them!

My sister had a male white pet rat growing up in Kenya and being a white rat he had pink eyes, a pink tail and BIG pink ..... things that boy rats have and we named him 'Bwana M'kubwa' which means BIG MAN in Swahili. He was incredibly smart and learned to do all kinds of tricks and my sister carried him around in the hood of a sweatshirt that she wore backwards! My mother was less than entertained when he joined us for dinner on most nights.

 

[JohnEugene]

I just finished placing my seven shipped old English game fowl eggs that I received yesterday in the incubator. They spent the night in an egg carton pointy end down with no turning, as this is what I have been reading that others do with their shipped eggs to give the air sacs a chance to reattach themselves in case they have become unattached. I placed them in the incubator pointy end down with the automatic egg turner off. I will leave it turned off for a couple of days and then turn it on. I also placed a freshly laid topknot egg, from one of my own hens, in with them as a control, so that I can compare progress. I'm going to try to resist the temptation to handle the eggs any further until I candled them on day eight. I'm trying to do as I have read others, who have been having successful hatches with shipped eggs have done. If any of you have any suggestions or comments pointing out anything that I may have misunderstood, or what I might do better please let me know.

 

[Morrigan]

I like the idea of a control egg.

 

[Kiki]

Day 3. I see life in some quail eggs.