Help! Quail are hatching late! Need help!

[BELLAPURPLEWOW]

Ok so my eggs are now 3 days past hatch date and I don't want them with crippled toes! I know that there is life in them... Is there any way I could help them get started hatching??? Please help! And normally crippled toes is a fixable problem but there feet are so tiny it is impossible to do.

 

[Kiki]

Do you have a calibrated thermometer or two in your incubator?
I just looked back through your posts and you just last month hatched some quail 5 days late.
If I were you I would not do anything to these current eggs and make sure to triple check your temps before setting eggs again to help avoid this.

 

[BELLAPURPLEWOW]

Do you have a calibrated thermometer or two in your incubator?
I just looked back through your posts and you just last month hatched some quail 5 days late.
If I were you I would not do anything to these current eggs and make sure to triple check your temps before setting eggs again to help avoid this.

Everything in my incubator is fine, the one quail I tried to hatch had crippled toes and died..... Is there any possible way I can help them hatch earlier to prevent this?

 

[Kiki]

Everything in my incubator is fine, the one quail I tried to hatch had crippled toes and died..... Is there any possible way I can help them hatch earlier to prevent this?

Probably not...If they can't hatch on their own they probably don't have a good chance surviving if you do help them.
I don't think you should even consider trying to help if it hasn't even made an external pip yet.

 

[BELLAPURPLEWOW]

Probably not...If they can't hatch on their own they probably don't have a good chance surviving if you do help them.
I don't think you should even consider trying to help if it hasn't even made an external pip yet.

I know but I hate seeing them struggle with the crippled toes and watching them suffer.... There is no way I can get them even pipped?

 

[Kiki]

I know but I hate seeing them struggle with the crippled toes and watching them suffer.... There is no way I can get them even pipped?

Sorry...I don't think you should.

There is a reason they are late...you should work on trying to figure out why.
Temp and parent stock are the first places to look.

 

[ShannonR]

If this is happening consistently, your incubator temp is likely too low. With quail eggs you may well have to run the temp a little higher than normal for the heat to reach down to the eggs