dry hatching quail?

[simplyscrambled]

I have 58% humidity here...which seems unusual for the 'dry' California central valley. I have quail eggs ready to go in, and I'm thinking I might try a 'dry' hatch, especially with these readings! I've been reading, at least with some breeders of Marans, that they've had more success with dry hatches.

What think you?

 

[Boyd]

as long as the humidity in the 'bator is 58% I'd say you are all set!!!!!!

 

[saddina]

We're having funky weather here too, If the humidity drops, be ready to pop it back up.

 

[simplyscrambled]

Cool, that's what I'll do! Hopefully I'll have better luck with quail then I did on my shipped chicken eggs!

 

[shelleyd2008]

If the humidity is that high, you shouldn't have any problems.

Now a 'true' dry hatch is not good for quail, at least in my opinion. I tried that once, with the humidity around 30% for incubation, and up to 50%+ for hatch, just like I was doing with my chickens. I had 3 total quail hatch out of 38 eggs. I'll never do that again!! Just be sure to keep the humidity inside the bator at least 45%, you should be okay.

 

[simplyscrambled]

I turned it on (a Genesis 1588) and it dropped to 3o-something! So I added water. And it's holding steady at 50%. Is that okay or too high? I had such bad luck with the last batch of chicken eggs (7/43, mostly shipped eggs) that I REALLY REALLY want a good hatch with my first quail!

 

[farrier!]

When did you start yours?

 

[simplyscrambled]

I started them yesterday.

That would make them due the very end of the month or July 1st.

 

[austin12895]

HA! I have quail hatching around the same day!!

lol Im keeping my humidity around 50 percent for the incubation period and will jack it up during hatching period! lol GOOD LUCK!

 

[shelleyd2008]

50% during incubation is good for quail, I don't let mine drop below 45%. Isn't that weird how the room humidity can be high, but the bator humidity can be low? I think our humidity is at least 50% most all the time, but the incubators would be around 25-30 if I didn't have water in them.