Help with staggered hatch and humidity

[CamiLynn]

A couple weeks ago I tried my first quail hatch, and got it wrong. Hatch day came and went, ended up thinking I was doing e-topsy to find that a few were still alive and shrink wrapped. With assistance one hatched, had splade legs, curled toes and never gained strength or got real active. It lived for 5 days with around the clock assistance. I attributed the loss to opening the bator too much during lock down, due to having to rescue pipped chicken eggs my broody hen abandoned.

Now I'm in another pickle! Went out the day the chick hatched and got 20 more quail eggs, 17 went in the bator on 4/2, and last night (day 9) I candled and 6 had no development. This past tues, a friend of my bf decided to give him 56 quail eggs, so I have added half of them (gave the otger half to a friend to hatch) them on 4/9. Now how do I work the humidity? I'm worried I have already ruined them since my humidity has been running high 50%.

Any help would be greatly appreciated... Oh and I forgot to mention I have 2 chicken eggs in (only one I think has growth, but real dark shells so leaving it just in case) that are on day 17 today...ugh I think I'm over my head this hatch...again! I don't want to lose these hatches too!

 

[TwoCrows]

You can stagger hatches if you have a hatcher. You can take the ones that are ready for lock down out of the incubator and place them in the hatcher with 10% higher humidity.

The humidity level during incubation should be somewhere around 50% to 55%. It is increased by 10% during lock down.

Watch your humidity closely at lock down and after. If you have to, place wet sponges in to keep the humidity up high. Open vents wide open during lock down as well so the chicks get as much oxygen as they can.

Hope it works out for you this time.

 

[CamiLynn]

You can stagger hatches if you have a hatcher. You can take the ones that are ready for lock down out of the incubator and place them in the hatcher with 10% higher humidity.

The humidity level during incubation should be somewhere around 50% to 55%. It is increased by 10% during lock down. 

Watch your humidity closely at lock down and after. If you have to, place wet sponges in to keep the humidity up high. Open vents wide open during lock down as well so the chicks get as much oxygen as they can.

Hope it works out for you this time.

Unfortunately I don't have a seperate hatched. I have successfully done staggered hatches in the same bator with chicken eggs, but for some reason I just can't get the quail eggs right....though I know I didn't start off well by it being a staggered hatch. :-/ I guess what I am asking for it help with my situation, on hopes I haven't ruined everything already. On a good note the ones that I candled on day 9 last night have chicks growing and movement going on inside, so I'm doing something right, just need to get them hatched.