Soph_quail
Chirping
- Jun 27, 2020
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Hello I wonder if somebody can help me.
I am fairly new to hatching quail, this is only my second attempt. However both attempts have resulted in poor hatches.
the first hatch we didn’t have a secondary temperature gauge or a humidity gauge so attributed our poor hatch (only 10% success) to this lack of control.
However, since then we have invested in 4 temperature gauges and 3 humidity gauges for our second hatch.
The first hatch 5 pipped on day 16 but only 1 survived and we assumed the high humidity had caused them to grow to big and were unable to hatch properly. The autopsy seemed to show this too as the heads were in the wrong place.
however, this hatch we had 1 egg pip on day 15 from the wrong end, however 24 hours later they successfully hatched. A day later (day 17) 1 chick pipped and zipped within 30minutes. We removed both these chicks within 24hours of them hatching - being sure to check for no external pips of other eggs before doing so. However it is now day 20 and we have 18 eggs left in the incubator with 0 signs of pipping. For this hatch our incubator was set at 40.8°c but it was running cold and our temperature gauges all measured at 38°C. And our humidity was between 40-50% until day 15 and has been on 70-80% since lockdown. We have an automatic turner and on day 8 candling revealed Atleast 65% were developing normally. Any ideas on why this hatch has been so poor so far?? Advice on what to do and how to improve would be much appreciated!! Thank you!!
I am fairly new to hatching quail, this is only my second attempt. However both attempts have resulted in poor hatches.
the first hatch we didn’t have a secondary temperature gauge or a humidity gauge so attributed our poor hatch (only 10% success) to this lack of control.
However, since then we have invested in 4 temperature gauges and 3 humidity gauges for our second hatch.
The first hatch 5 pipped on day 16 but only 1 survived and we assumed the high humidity had caused them to grow to big and were unable to hatch properly. The autopsy seemed to show this too as the heads were in the wrong place.
however, this hatch we had 1 egg pip on day 15 from the wrong end, however 24 hours later they successfully hatched. A day later (day 17) 1 chick pipped and zipped within 30minutes. We removed both these chicks within 24hours of them hatching - being sure to check for no external pips of other eggs before doing so. However it is now day 20 and we have 18 eggs left in the incubator with 0 signs of pipping. For this hatch our incubator was set at 40.8°c but it was running cold and our temperature gauges all measured at 38°C. And our humidity was between 40-50% until day 15 and has been on 70-80% since lockdown. We have an automatic turner and on day 8 candling revealed Atleast 65% were developing normally. Any ideas on why this hatch has been so poor so far?? Advice on what to do and how to improve would be much appreciated!! Thank you!!