Getting first shipped quail eggs this week!

[Attack Chicken]

So excited! My bator has been out of order for atleast a year or more now bleh! Thankfully a friend of mine wanted me to hatch some quail for her. Being that it has been cold here most of my quail eggs are frozen and cracked before I even get them. Pmed a few people about them and finally the wonderfull JJMR794 on here sold me 2 dozen eggs various colors!

I can't wait!

h Hopefully this cold don't affect them when being shipped here.


Thanks so much JJMR794!
AC

 

[pringle]

Good luck,there always fun to hatch!

 

[joe125]

You have you some good eggs to set. That's for sure.

Good luck on your hatch!

 

[peewee]

Good luck with your hatch. I have a couple of Jeff's birds and they are big and beautiful. Great stock for you to begin with.

 

[Attack Chicken]

Most of these are for my friend that is getting into quail. I just love the birds I have and very cold hardy! Just hard to get dang unfrozen eggs in the winter.

Bators is running on one thermometer exactly 100 and another is reading 104 so not sure which one to believe. Just put another one in so we shall see what that reads.

Which is better on hatching quail? On my batch a year ago I used water and some people say not to use water until the last 4 days. What do you do?


Thanks
AC

 

[JJMR794]

QUAIL AND MOST GAMEBIRDS ARE SUPER HUMIDITY SENSITIVE... I DONT RECOMMEND DRY INCUBATION AS IT USUALLY HAS VERY UNSAVORY RESULTS EVEN HERE IN THE HUMIDITY CAPITOL OF OUR COUNTRY. 45-55% INCUBATION 65%+ LOCKDOWN AND HATCH--- JUST MY WAY THO..

 

[joe125]

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X2 here as well. I know reliable people that say 45-55% humidity is fine for game bird hatches, but a bump doesn't seam to hurt anything. I'm just paranoid about bumping up the humidity for the hatch, but that's just me too.

 

[rjs55555]

Here is a study on humidity and hatchability rate for Coturnix quail. Interesting read.

http://www.lrrd.org/lrrd21/3/roma21038.htm

I would love thoughts on this because I consider people here to have more expertise than the scientists could ever have.

 

[deerman]

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I use a oral medical thermometer to double check temp. yes it only read the high temp. but to high can kill the whole batch.

 

[Attack Chicken]

WEll they should be here tomorrow according to the tracking number

I have 4 thermometers in the incubator 2 kinds, 1 aquarium one (BYCer told me o try it), and the one that came with the incubator that I've used before.
Results:
1 of the crap kind is reading around 104
other crap kind is reading anywhere from 99-100
aquarium 1 is reading 99-100
and the incubator one is reading 99-100

So I'm going with what the 3 say and pitching the 104 one.
I'll have to go try one of the oral ones.

Getting my battery therm/humidity one today so I shall see what it read! lol

For being a LG incubator it's pretty spot on temps.. To bad it isn't circulated air.


Thanks
AC