Dyi quail attachment for dyi turner

chickenwhisperer

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So I needed to get my coturnix eggs in my homemade bator as quickly as possible today after the hovabator hit 107 briefly.
Trouble is, how do I hold 56 quail eggs on my turner, which is a rod thru the bator that pivots the eggs with a twist of the handle( the standard dyi cooler style turner).

So using the lighting grid the eggs were already on(which holds them upright extremely well), I cut strips of grid that was most of 1 square high, then glued them upright on the main grid.
The quail eggs fit perfectly and are nestled into the grid and supported by 5 points of contact with the turner.
I get full range of motion from the turner and no roll-aways.

The lighting grid is sturdy enough that I could raise it up off the turner rod with a base of more grid, and I put my last batch of chicken eggs on lockdown just now underneath.
And the grid can be easily and quickly be removed and reinstalled when I need to remove my chicks in a few days.
The lighting grid(ironically called "eggcrate") also allows me to see the hatching chicken eggs below.

Anyways, if anybody is interested . . .

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I'm interested.
I'm trying to learn as much as I can about quail and I was going to try a few next month.
I like this setup.
 
The spacing on the eggcrate grid seems to have had quail eggs in mind.

I made this rack in about 20 minutes today, no measuring just eyeballing.
The little imperfections in the squareness of the upright pieces means that I have "holes" that are just a bit bigger/smaller than others, and can fit bigger/smaller eggs better . . . once you find the right hole.

I used hotglue gun because I was in a hurry.
If you have the time, Id say dabs of superglue would be better, then air out before use.

I gotta say, its not that easy to just find something that works for such small eggs right out of the gate.
I am a total DYIer and have alot of "stuff" around . . .
I had a few ideas, but this seemed best.
 

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