Is It Okay To Leave Quail Eggs Incubating For A Week Without Putting Water In The Incubator?

[Shadow Source]

Hey all you helpful people!


I have been incubating chicken eggs quite sometime now. In the springtime I am not too busy, but in the summer I like to go on vacations and such. I live in the high desert of Oregon and it is very dry. When I incubate chicken eggs I try to keep it at a steady 50% humidity. But I have to add water every day or so. I have had very good luck doing this, and the most I have left eggs in the incubator without me home has only been three days. I was hoping to try to incubate quail eggs for the first time, but I can't plan vacations around my incubator (Because my family would not like that). So it takes two weeks until I go into lock down with Coturnix quail. What if I started incubating my quail eggs and checked it and added water for the first week. Then I added water and headed off onto my vacation? Would it be okay since the humidity in the incubator stayed at a steady 50 percent for the first week, then dropped down to 15 percent in the second week? Then added water at lockdown.


Anything helps

 

[Rose Quartz]

Hey all you helpful people!


I have been incubating chicken eggs quite sometime now. In the springtime I am not too busy, but in the summer I like to go on vacations and such. I live in the high desert of Oregon and it is very dry. When I incubate chicken eggs I try to keep it at a steady 50% humidity. But I have to add water every day or so. I have had very good luck doing this, and the most I have left eggs in the incubator without me home has only been three days. I was hoping to try to incubate quail eggs for the first time, but I can't plan vacations around my incubator (Because my family would not like that). So it takes two weeks until I go into lock down with Coturnix quail. What if I started incubating my quail eggs and checked it and added water for the first week. Then I added water and headed off onto my vacation? Would it be okay since the humidity in the incubator stayed at a steady 50 percent for the first week, then dropped down to 15 percent in the second week? Then added water at lockdown.


Anything helps

I haven't set quail eggs myself, but I did research into them because I think I would like to get quail at some point.

I read somewhere that quail eggs are more sensitive to humidity issues than chicken eggs. But I have no proof if that's accurate.