Any tips for hatching quail?

[RUNuts]

One thing I can tell you is to have your coop/aviary already built for them, they grow so fast. Also have your brooder set up before they hatch. Good luck with your hatch.

True! The weather and life will conspire against you.

 

[Ebony Rose]

Actually, I do have a tip. The normal flashlights won't see through most of the darker speckled quail eggs. The 1000 Lumen high powered hand torch is needed to see into the shells. Don't burn yourself. These get hot. Other option is not to candle. I'm good either way.

I candle on day 9, if the inside is dark, it's a keeper, if light passes through it wasn't fertile or didn't make it. I weigh them on day 9 as well, and weigh once more on day 15 (lock down day). The scale does a pretty good job of letting me know if things are progressing well.

 

[Thornflower_gal]

I'll take any help I can get, thanks

 

[Gray Farms]

x2, except Coturnix take 17-18 days

Mine have always hatched at 16 days and sometimes at 14 & 15.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Mine have always hatched at 16 days and sometimes at 14 & 15.

Lucky! Mine took all 18 days

 

[Ebony Rose]

Sounds like your incubator may run a bit warm.

 

[Nabiki]

Sounds like your incubator may run a bit warm.

I thought that late hatches were because the incubator ran a bit cold? I'm curious because I'm going to be hatching my first batch of quail next month, and I've been testing my incubator out. The temperature setting seems to be within 1/2 a degree of the thermometer/humidity monitor I bought separate and put inside.

 

[Ebony Rose]

Mine have always hatched at 16 days and sometimes at 14 & 15.

Sounds like your incubator may run a bit warm.

 

[Nabiki]

Ah, that makes more sense. I was looking at the post immediately before your reply.

 

[Gray Farms]

It runs 99.5 to 100 degree.