Hello all, I’ve been dipping my toes in the realm of quail… I just have to say, I had no idea there were so many types and that there is a super jumbo version that people breed for meat that tops out at about 1 lb! This is a game changer for me. The only viable source of Cornish cross that I’ve found near me (I’m in Seattle) stopped selling them. This made me motivated to once again look at breeding my own source of meet bird. My friend started into it over a year ago and he was delighted to have a self sustaining flock in the city, as the roosters make an innocuous sound that blends in with the song birds and no one complains. I could ramble for a while about all this but my question is specifically about quail egg incubators. I’ve read people extol the virtues of automated eggs turners that are pointy end down, and how this vastly improves the rate of hatch of shipped eggs. Seems that I will be trying various types of quail and need a reliable way to get a decent hatch rate from shipped eggs since local options are limited…. My first go was horrible, 4 out of 29 eggs hatched from the first batch I received in the mail. My incubator might be the culprit, it’s made for chicken eggs, I modified the turner with straws to reduce the gap to assure the quail eggs actually turn, but I’m wondering if I would have better luck with a quail specific incubator. My first run of my own eggs got me a hatch rate of 50%, which I feel is sub par. I can not find a quail eggs specific egg turner, pointy end down, that fits in the incubator I have. Any suggestions or general info would be much appreciated.
