Cortunix Quail Incubating & Hatching

[heatherbell2]

I set 48 eggs on my birthday Dec 3rd. They started pipping yesterday. Today we have over 14 so far on day 16. Guess I'll find out our hatch rate in a few days. First time using a Nuture Right 360 & Govee Hygrometer. I did two days of testing temps & humidity with the Hygrometer on the tray where the eggs would be & figured out that to get the temperature & humidity right where the eggs are I needed to run the Incubator at 101.5F with the humidity slot 3/4 open. Set timer at 17 days so it would stop rotating on day 14.

All of the eggs came from 4 A&M white (3 females 1 male) & 4 pharoh/Italian (3 females 1 male) that I recently aquired. Hatched a ton of chickens, I'm totally new to quail! What hatch rates are ya'll seeing? I'm in Anderson, TX

 

[Susan Skylark]

Depends how you define hatch rate! On unshipped, fertile eggs I consider 10 percent infertile and 10 percent quitters (embryonic death) normal but often it can be less. I don’t count infertile eggs in the hatch rate (they will never hatch, no matter your methods so should not count towards hatch rate). So 90 percent hatch rate not counting infertile eggs, 80 if counting everything. And this is intentionally doing things wrong (humidity extremes, fridge eggs, no turning preincubation…). Quail are amazingly resilient little buggers! The only things I’ve found to affect hatch rate thus far are extreme heat, too cold, or geriatric eggs (2-3 weeks old at start of incubation). I’m running a no turn hatch at the moment, we’ll see how that works!

 

[SweetieChicken234]

I set 48 eggs on my birthday Dec 3rd. They started pipping yesterday. Today we have over 14 so far on day 16. Guess I'll find out our hatch rate in a few days. First time using a Nuture Right 360 & Govee Hygrometer. I did two days of testing temps & humidity with the Hygrometer on the tray where the eggs would be & figured out that to get the temperature & humidity right where the eggs are I needed to run the Incubator at 101.5F with the humidity slot 3/4 open. Set timer at 17 days so it would stop rotating on day 14.

All of the eggs came from 4 A&M white (3 females 1 male) & 4 pharoh/Italian (3 females 1 male) that I recently aquired. Hatched a ton of chickens, I'm totally new to quail! What hatch rates are ya'll seeing? I'm in Anderson, TX

I had 80% hatch rate on shipped Jumbo white Coturnix eggs.

 

[heatherbell2]

We are on day 18 and still have some more working on hatching. So far, we have 34 that have hatched, so we are excited!

 

[SweetieChicken234]

This is great progress

 

[heatherbell2]

We are on day 18 and still have some more working on hatching. So far, we have 34 that have hatched, so we are excited!

So, final hatch was 34. So far everyone is doing great. Out of the remaining eggs, two looked pretty well developed but didn't hatch, one looked like embryo failure & the rest weren't fertile. I don't think we did too bad our first hatch. Moved them today from the small pan brooder in the house to the big brooder outside in the shed. I'm amazed how quickly they have feathered out!!