Gah! I want my eggs to hatch!

[tinkatwerp]

So today is day 15 of incubating my first ever batch of coturnix eggs. We went into lock down yesterday. Temperature is 99.5 humidity 80% and I am dying from anticipation.

I know it's hardly past time for them to hatch but

I just want adorible little chickies already!

Hatch hatch hatch! What are the chances of them hatching today? is day 15 a pretty common day for them to hatch? or are they more likely to hatch tomorrow or the day after? Really I'm just considering sitting and staring at these eggs all day until they do something.

 

[DaisyQ12]

Well you might actually have to wait a few more days. Coturnix take around 18 days (so the day after tonmorow would be a pretty high chance) then you should probably give em another 2 days after that. I get what you mean though, I hade to wait 2 years just to get my quail But now I've got 10 precious cot chicks!

 

[ChickenLegs13]

I usually have a handful that hatch a day early them most hatch right on time like popcorn exploding in a pan of hot grease, then a handful hatch a day late. If I wait 1 more day after that, 3-4 more of the non-hatchers will hatch but they are always knarled up and have have bad feet and die within a few hours or days.

 

[Quail Jailer]

I usually have a handful that hatch a day early them most hatch right on time like popcorn exploding in a pan of hot grease, then a handful hatch a day late. If I wait 1 more day after that, 3-4 more of the non-hatchers will hatch but they are always knarled up and have have bad feet and die within a few hours or days.

I have had chicks hatch late on the 15th, usually one or two late on the 16th and most hatch on 17
and stragglers on 18...hope that made sense...

 

[Dragons4u]

Mine all hatch on day 17.

 

[ChickenLegs13]

I usually have a handful that hatch a day early them most hatch right on time like popcorn exploding in a pan of hot grease, then a handful hatch a day late. If I wait 1 more day after that, 3-4 more of the non-hatchers will hatch but they are always knarled up and have have bad feet and die within a few hours or days.

I have had chicks hatch late on the 15th, usually one or two late on the 16th and most hatch on 17
and stragglers on 18...hope that made sense...

Makes perfect sense! My last post was sloppy-I keep detailed notes about everything and notes say my last hatch started out slow, early on Day 16 with 17 hatching, was smoking on Day 17 with 38 more hatching and petered out on Day 18 with 7 hatching. I helped a stuck one late on Day 19 that flopped around in the bator for several hours then died. I normally don't keep eggs in the bator that long but had some eggs from the large bird that is unmentionable here that were due to hatch soon.
Hatched 65, 55 were clears or had dried up due to cracks, holes etc.

 

[tinkatwerp]

Ugh so basically I have to wait fooooorrrrrever for them to hatch. I wonder if anyone has ever died from waiting to long for quail eggs to hatch.

 

[Dragons4u]

Time never was as for me as it is for others.

 

[Quail Jailer]

Time never was as for me as it is for others.

How do you know?

 

[Quail Jailer]

Ugh so basically I have to wait fooooorrrrrever for them to hatch. I wonder if anyone has ever died from waiting to long for quail eggs to hatch.

Statistics would have it in the thousands of years these birds have been domesticated...the probability is high