- Apr 15, 2009
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I had 10 coturnix quail eggs in the incubator.
After they were 4(!) days over due, I cracked one open. It bled and I saw the baby move inside, so I put it back in the incubator, upped the humidity, and decided to wait even longer. I had never ever had quail go more than 2 days past their due date.
Today, the 6th(!!) day past the due date, I was impatient. Not even so much as a pip from any of the eggs. I looked at the previously cracked egg. The baby inside was dead. I probably killed it by opening it up. I thought, no way could these other eggs still be alive after this long. So I cracked open another. It was not developed, and 2 more, undeveloped. On the 4th egg I opened there was a baby inside. It died in my hand. I killed it by opening the egg. But this baby was supposed to be a jumbo brown, and instead it was very tiny and pure white (not yellow, white). I should have stopped there and put the rest of the eggs back in the incubator, but I figured with so many undeveloped, and the one weird one, and taking so long, something was wrong. I tossed the rest of the eggs without opening them.
Now I feel horrible about it and it's too late to take it back.
Has anybody else experienced anything even remotely like this with an incubation?
After they were 4(!) days over due, I cracked one open. It bled and I saw the baby move inside, so I put it back in the incubator, upped the humidity, and decided to wait even longer. I had never ever had quail go more than 2 days past their due date.
Today, the 6th(!!) day past the due date, I was impatient. Not even so much as a pip from any of the eggs. I looked at the previously cracked egg. The baby inside was dead. I probably killed it by opening it up. I thought, no way could these other eggs still be alive after this long. So I cracked open another. It was not developed, and 2 more, undeveloped. On the 4th egg I opened there was a baby inside. It died in my hand. I killed it by opening the egg. But this baby was supposed to be a jumbo brown, and instead it was very tiny and pure white (not yellow, white). I should have stopped there and put the rest of the eggs back in the incubator, but I figured with so many undeveloped, and the one weird one, and taking so long, something was wrong. I tossed the rest of the eggs without opening them.
Now I feel horrible about it and it's too late to take it back.
Has anybody else experienced anything even remotely like this with an incubation?
