high humidity during prehatch incubation

[Lilyofsalen]

I'm thinking about getting blue scale quail which have a longer incubation time. If I were to put those eggs in an incubator with Coturnix and put the Coturnix into lockdown first, would the high humidity (I up the humidity to 55-60% for lockdown) hurt the embryos of the eggs with a longer development time? Has anyone had a good hatch with a constant 45% humidity throughout incubation?

 

[SpotTheCat]

Can you not put the cotrunix in later so the lockdown is at the same time?

 

[FloorCandy]

I'm thinking about getting blue scale quail which have a longer incubation time. If I were to put those eggs in an incubator with Coturnix and put the Coturnix into lockdown first, would the high humidity (I up the humidity to 55-60% for lockdown) hurt the embryos of the eggs with a longer development time? Has anyone had a good hatch with a constant 45% humidity throughout incubation?

I do staggered hatches in my brinsea quite often, but they are all Coturnix, and I’m not sure about any specifics of other species. I up the humidity to about 47-50 at lockdown, and it spikes higher on its own when they are hatching, and then I put it back down to about 33 after, all of my staggered hatches have been fine.

 

[Nabiki]

I would incubate them separately because they might need different humidity levels for best hatch. I incubated my first button eggs together with my coturnix eggs, and later found out that buttons do much better with higher humidity during incubation.