Anyone ever try the dry hatch method before?

[spiritdance]

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ditto

 

[loopy119]

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So, You are saying that you are having lots of luck dry-incubating your QUAIL eggs?

Like I said, I am still experimenting with my quail, this is the biggest batch I have tried. I have had 14 hatch so far and they are still trying to hatch, I think. One thing I would have changed about this hatch is that I would have hatched them in cartons. At the time of lockdown, I didn't even think about it. Then I saw the hatching chicks kicking around the pipping eggs like footballs, and they actually were able to disturb one that was half-zipped so much it died. I took it out of it's shell and it had absorbed its yolk, and the membrane wasn't stuck to it, so that's the only thing I can figure. I don't know why I didn't use cartons...I always use them with my chicken eggs. Anyway, 14 out and doing great and maybe a couple of more pips. I think I will take a look at the insides of the remaining eggs after I shut down the bator to clean it. Just to see how far most of them developed.

 

[KDailey]

I'm going to be tryin to hatch my first eggs this coming week sometime and I'm very nervous about it. I really don't want anything to go wrong. Hatching eggs seems soooooo complicated. But dry incubation sounds so easy.

So lets see if I've got this right:
1. Put eggs in incubator
2. Turn it on to (?) temp
3. Leave it alone
4. Day 18 add a little water
5. Day 21=chicks

 

[alaina]

@KDailey


turn the incubator on for several days first, to make sure the temp is set correctly, so to avoid temp fluctuations during incubation, then put the eggs in.

 

[KDailey]

and what temp is used with dry incubation?

 

[KDailey]

If you don't have an automatic turner will this still work well?

 

[Rhondax6]

Good questions KDailey, I too would like to know!

 

[KDailey]

I'm tryin to decide on an incubator and need to know asap about how it will affect the dry incubation process if I'm opening/closing it all the time to turn.

 

[henney penny]

This is very interesting,I have my second batch in my hova bator(40 eggs),my first hatch was in a borrowed one and no egg turner,only got four out of 28 eggs hatch.I am done hatching for the year now when I start again in the spring I am going to try the dry hatch,sounds so much easier.

 

[Lacrystol]

Do you use a fan for circulation? do you use a different kind of light?
I read something about a wet Bulb, not sure what that is.

I have never used a dry incubator but you guys have got me curious now.

Can you use any kind of incubator? I have two homemade ones, I have a computer fan in them, a 40 watt regular light, and I add a bowl of water with a sponge, also a thermastat to regulate the control of the light/heat... Come lockdown I have to add two sometimes three bowls.

I am hatching chicken eggs, is there anything different from what I use now from what you are discribing for a dry incubator.


INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!!!!