Float test, egg pointing straight down? viable?

[KenjiQuacker]

Hopefully you can find something. Lets see what the others say about having chicks and quail together.

Oh actually i just realized, i'm hatching a duck egg too, i wonder if once the quail chick gets bigger i could put it in with the duckling??

 

[KenjiQuacker]

I'm off for a horse ride, I'll chat at you when I get back Kengi! Talk to you later!

bye! have fun!

 

[NatJ]

Oh actually i just realized, i'm hatching a duck egg too, i wonder if once the quail chick gets bigger i could put it in with the duckling??

Do you have any other quail? If so, maybe raise the lone hatchling in a pen next to the other ones.

If you don't have other quail, maybe you could incubate another batch of quail eggs, so it will be able to have company in a few weeks, and spend time with it yourself in the meanwhile.

For putting a quail with a duck, I don't know enough about either kind of bird to be sure, but you should at least consider their sizes. You don't want the little one dead because the big one stepped on it by mistake.

 

[KenjiQuacker]

Do you have any other quail? If so, maybe raise the lone hatchling in a pen next to the other ones.

If you don't have other quail, maybe you could incubate another batch of quail eggs, so it will be able to have company in a few weeks, and spend time with it yourself in the meanwhile.

For putting a quail with a duck, I don't know enough about either kind of bird to be sure, but you should at least consider their sizes. You don't want the little one dead because the big one stepped on it by mistake.

no sadly i don't have any other quail, and yeah i might hatch another batch.
Also, for size I was actually thinking of waiting a week or two to put them together ( if i put them together ) because quail grow a lot faster than ducklings i think. If not though i'll try to buy it another friend or hatch more quail eggs.

 

[aart]

I tried the float test. I didn't float the one that had pipped and i checked carefully for pips on all the other. The 4 that hadn't moved all floated with the pointy end straight down, like, directly down not even slightly at an angle. Does this mean their dead?

Floating a devolving hatching egg is to look for movement....
..not like floating an eating egg.
Neither are really a good idea, IMO.

Do you have multiple species in the same incubator?

 

[KenjiQuacker]

Floating a devolving hatching egg is to look for movement....
..not like floating an eating egg.
Neither are really a good idea, IMO.

Do you have multiple species in the same incubator?

I read in an article that said "checking viability of hatching eggs using the float test" that you can use it to check for the position it's in too, for example, if it sinks to the bottom it was either infertile or it died. There are also several youtube videos on using the float test and using the position to tell if it's alive or not, but maybe i'm wrong. And no i don't, i have an incubator for my duck egg and another incubator for my quail eggs

 

[Weeg]

This is what I would do. Once the ducklings hatch, maybe you can put a separator in the brooder so no one can step on each other, but they can sit next to each other through a wire separator. Then, you can also spend time with the lone baby, while you incubate another batch of eggs.

 

[KenjiQuacker]

This is what I would do. Once the ducklings hatch, maybe you can put a separator in the brooder so no one can step on each other, but they can sit next to each other through a wire separator. Then, you can also spend time with the lone baby, while you incubate another batch of eggs.

Thanks that's a good idea

 

[Talavar]

Hello, hope you're all having a good day!

I have 5 eggs in my homemade incubator right now, and one of them started pipping this morning. But the other four, i'm not sure if they're alive. So we had a power outage a couple days ago, and it was in the middle of the night so i was asleep and didn't wake up to put anything over the incubator to keep the heat in, and by the time i woke up it had been around 80-85 degrees fahrenheit for at least an hour. I candled them the next morning and all of them had stopped moving, and they haven't moved since day 12 (i candled them everyday from day 12 to 15, and yes, i understand that that probably wasn't good to candled them that much but i was really worried). so today, day 20 (i think? i kinda lost track...) I tried the float test. I didn't float the one that had pipped and i checked carefully for pips on all the other. The 4 that hadn't moved all floated with the pointy end straight down, like, directly down not even slightly at an angle. Does this mean their dead?

Hatching generally happens on day 21, don't start jumping the gun. lol

 

[KenjiQuacker]

Hatching generally happens on day 21, don't start jumping the gun. lol

oh sorry i totally forgot to add that that they're quail eggs! quail eggs normally hatch on day 18. I'll edit my post.