dry hatching quail?

[calgal98]

I'm in the Oakdale area (north central valley) and my incubation humidity has been 50%. I've been trying to get it higher for the hatch and have managed about 55-60%. Mine are hatching as we speak. Today is day 17. I still have a large percentage to hatch. Hopefully I can claim a large % hatch tomorrow. They keep going! They are absolutely adorable! Vicki

 

[ozzie]

Relative humidity varies with temperatures - so relative humidity at an ambient temperature which is lower than that of the temperature in the bator (which is like 100F) would be different.

The amount of water vapour the air can hold increases with temperature. Relative humidity therefore decreases with increasing temperature if the actual amount of water vapour stays the same. So if there's only a certain amount of water vapour in the air, then the relative humidity on the outside could be 50% but the humidity in the bator (because it's at a higher temperature) could very well be just 20-30%.

I read the above explanation from http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/humiditycalc.shtml whilst trying to figure out if I needed to add water to my water trays or just dry hatch.

ozzie

 

[simplyscrambled]

Yay, hatch buddies! Saddina, too.

Good luck, Vicki, let us know how it goes! And pics, I LOVE pics. Quail are SOOO cute, I love the sounds and those round bodies.

It can be so addicting. I have over 40 eggs, only room for 10 in my converted rabbit coop, and I'm already eyeing Monarc's colorful egg offers. So crazy.

I've been working on making Macnugget's very cool watering system using his humidifier and PVC and a 5 gallon bucket. Slowly, I'm NOT handy, and I find my son has brought his drill to someone's place to use! Gaahhh!! I'm thinking I'll treat myself for 'Father's Day' and by my own little drill. Ha!

 

[rbar]

Locations vary greatly, but here in East Tennessee, up on Walden's Ridge, I load up my Genesis and put maybe a jarlid full of water in the smallest channel, the innermost channel. This brings mine up to 50% to 60% by itself...can't imagine using the larger channels...larger surface area would make it even higher.
I forget about it (I have the egg turner), but check humidity daily...when I notice it down in the mid-20% humidity range (on one of those little white Walmart Temp/Humidity gauges), I add a couple of table spoons of water using a small funnel attached to a plastic tube.
Just take out the red plug and stick the tube through the hole to keep from cooling the eggs too much, though, I'm sure that would do little harm if any.
When I quit turning I put the full jarlid in once again, that gets them through the hatching.
I get about 80% hatch usually, eggs sent through the mail usually a bit lower, 60% to 70%, (with the exception on one well-known quail egg provider...this dealer even sent wrong type of Coturnix in last batch. Imagine my surprise when my A&Ms turned out with stripes!).


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