all who are hatching quail

[313759]

Are you using shipped eggs Ducky 13?  My first hatch of shipped eggs was 3/13 and one of those died day 2.  I ended up with two roo's left lol.  Second hatch was way better with 16/24 out of shipped eggs.

I have bobs in the bator now, white ones and Mexican speckled that are due 7/4-5  I'm not sure yet if I will be keeping them or selling them as chicks and concentrating on cortunix.  I have a lot of local interest in Bob whites, but a lot of local people do not realize cortunix are available and grow quicker.

No these are eggs I got right from my hens right outside my backdoor. I think it was just a bad fertility rate, but these 12 eggs are hatching now and I think only one of the 12 is dead

 

[beakmaster]

40+ Texas A&Ms broke loose on the 4th of July, with more on the way. Happy Birthday USA! These will be my new layers as I am just stepping back into raising them from about a year long break. I bought some eggs on ebay and looks like 90%+ hatch, judging by the pips in nearly every egg left to hatch. I can't wait to move them into my new cage. I built it onto an old trailer frame. Its 7x8 ft, with 23 total dripper waterers. I built in a divide for when I keep meat birds and added a door to the divide for when I only have my breeders.
I plan on mounting a toilet fill valve in the water tank, adapted to fit a hose, so I don't have to manually fill it everyday.

 

[313759]

My babies started hatching and I got 11 out of 12 so far, the twelfth is hatching now. I accidentally stepped on one because it got loose. Now I feel horribly guilty

 

[lightchick]

I just had seven hatch on the fourth of July too!

 

[lightchick]

Oh no! How did it get loose?

 

[EJA1]

I hope I have fixed my humidity issues in the bator. The first 4-5 days were high, 60-62%. The next 6 days were 32-33%. Today is day 12, and I'm starting to bring it back up some into the 40's. I have 62 eggs left in the bator that I am turning 3x a day by hand.

This is my first attempt at hatching, so I have a question...... Is day 14 the first day of lockdown? Or do I still turn on day 14, then lockdown?

Thanx!

 

[yellowherb]

EJA1 lockdown is really by choice I find. Most people recommend lockdown 3 days before hatch but I've been pulling my eggs a day before and putting in the hatcher. I nearly missed bob's o.o They pipped two days early and were hatching by the next morning lol. I'm a watcher and meddler, so locking down late keeps my hands to myself longer.

 

[313759]

Oh no! How did it get loose?

it must've climbed on its friends and h upped out

 

[texan4ut]

I put 33 in the incubator today. These are eggs from my birds. Jumbo's so I am hoping for a good hatch.

 

[313759]

I put 33 in the incubator today. These are eggs from my birds. Jumbo's so I am hoping for a good hatch.

Oh cool, I've been looking to buy some jumbos. Especially the red tuxedo's