French frogs

[mixedUPturk]

Does anyone have any special tips for hatching quail? I have a friend that bought a cheap incubator and is struggling. Nada. I offered to do a hatch in mine and check out his incubator to see how it holding temps. Wondering about humidity.
I knows nothin bout birthin quail Miz Scarlett!

I hatched quail, and as for trouble shooting? Ravyns right, its not that much different. Theyre teeni tiny is all. I would ask them all the same questions as normal for chicks. Just like your doing, make sure of how stable the bator is, condition of eggs ect.

 

[chicapee]

X2.
Looked at my chart, coturnix are shorter (16-18 days) but bobwhite are same as chickens.
Are they coturnix @chicapee?

I am not sure what type. I need to find out.

 

[chicapee]

Any excuse to hatch. Ha!

 

[RubyNala97]

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Awesome! Happy my first set in the 20 will follow yours!

around 11 or so days of incubation the chorio-allantoic membrane reaches the pointed end of the egg from turning and stimulation, thats why turning is so important up to this time.  if the albumen sac is too large cause of lack of weight loss the membrane wont reach the the bottom of the egg and cause for a smaller area for the embryo to grow and in turn will cause DIS just at lockdown and hatch.   you can see this by candling not only the top of the eggs to watch weight loss, but candle the bottom of the eggs to keep an eye on this membrane to see if it has any effects on viability, also after hatch check out those eggs and see where the membrane actually went to. 
 
 

I gotta find the links to the on diary thread where I have all this stuff. I pulled it for the incu thread but didnt add those links yet. 

Yes, Sally, I've had issues here. With shipped eggs, I found this article (I think it's still in my siggy, cus I don't know how to edit it) anyway, this article sounded good and recommended not turning shipped eggs for up to 7 days. I went 5 days and half died in lockdown. Later doing research I found that I was retarding the CAM! Now I only wait 24-48 hours.

Aiyah, that is connected with turning and moisture/weight loss in the egg... yup, got that... but here's the thing... w/out misting they are running between 25-30% humidity, and many DIS at lockdown w/out internal pip... the ones that do hatch come out with globs of jelly goo...

Misting drops humidity 5-10% more after it evaporates... more make it through lockdown to internal pip, but many come out with liquid over them that dries like cement...

I'm just curious, have you ever tried higher humidity? Again, just curious.

every two hours at 90 degrees, much more stimulation than hand turning.  most people want to do it 3 times a day during incubation not fully understanding that more is so much better, a hen I have read can turn 35-90 times a day, now not in the degrees we do it, but they are still getting joust about. 

Sally, I used to only turn 3 times a day until you told me I had to do at least 5. I've turned at least 5xday since you told me that and hatch rate went up!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Awesome! Happy my first set in the 20 will follow yours!
Yes, Sally, I've had issues here. With shipped eggs, I found this article (I think it's still in my siggy, cus I don't know how to edit it) anyway, this article sounded good and recommended not turning shipped eggs for up to 7 days. I went 5 days and half died in lockdown. Later doing research I found that I was retarding the CAM! Now I only wait 24-48 hours.
I'm just curious, have you ever tried higher humidity? Again, just curious.
Sally, I used to only turn 3 times a day until you told me I had to do at least 5. I've turned at least 5xday since you told me that and hatch rate went up!

Yep... every single one was DIS... air cells did not get big enough and eggs were very full of liquid...

 

[RubyNala97]

Yep... every single one was DIS... air cells did not get big enough and eggs were very full of liquid...

Ugh! Well you're on the right track now. Did you say you're hand turning?

 

[Ravynscroft]

Ugh! Well you're on the right track now. Did you say you're hand turning?

Yep, this next one... and am done for a while... messy little poop machines, lol...

 

[WVduckchick]

Yep, this next one... and am done for a while... messy little poop machines, lol...

Sure, sure...

 

[FridayYet]

Sure, sure...

I was gonna say the same thing.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Sure, sure...

24 ducklings in last 6 weeks... want to take care of them all?