Incubation Detail for Courtnix Quail

[arbucklemurphy]

I'm getting 24 Courntix Quail egg's tomorrow (Texas A&M) can anyone give me the specifics on temps and humidity for incubation. I have a forced air hovabator with egg turner. I've hatched chicken's but not quail and I wasn't sure if the temps and humidity were the same.

Thanks

 

[Doc Henry]

It's all pretty close 99.5 is about standard. I keep my humidity around 50% and up it a little with a sponge on hatch day. I've had no problems, I have 120 due to hatch on friday. I've been known to mix hatches with quail and chickens just gotta put your quail in a hatcher or they will get stuck under the turner. Good luck!

 

[arbucklemurphy]

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Do you put them in lockdown the last 3 days like chickens with no turning?

 

[JJMR794]

Yes, also set them lg end up in a carton for hatching, this will decrease the number that pip and drown before hatching.

 

[aprophet]

I was thinking lockdown was at day 14 look for hatching day 16-19???

 

[arbucklemurphy]

I have Coturnix Quail I was told they hatch in 16 day's is that not the case?

 

[worldling]

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Maybe in an incubator that operates outside the laws of physics and nature. Coturnix are pretty fast hatchers, but don't over cook your eggs to get a quick hatch.
If you do everything right, then somewhere between 17 and 19 days you should get your bulk hatch.

 

[fishman65]

My coturnix have hatched on day 16. I have only hatched out about 200+. I have let the unhatched eggs sit in the incubator until day 21 but with no avail. I stop turning on day 15 and keep humidity at 50-60%. But every hatch is different.

 

[Valley quail breeder]

99.5 F to 101.0 F Incubation peroid 18 days (Coturnix) take out of egg turner on day 16 is what I do.

 

[Valley quail breeder]

http://www.gamebird.com/hatching.html