JUST put 107 quail eggs in the hatchin tray

[the1much]

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they better not!!! i was only counting on 20 or so making it lol

I put 60 in and just hatched 40 something

They look like bees, I hoped for a good hatch but this is crazy, if you get 100 chicks you'll go blind trying to count them

im goin blind just trying to see them in the bator

 

[the1much]

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i could fit another 200 of them eggs in there

 

[miss_jayne]

JIM! there MUST be pics as soon as they pop!

i am going to get some hatching eggs soon and thought they would be great meat! yeah!

um, did i mention PICS! and don't be wearing a pink dress, please.

 

[the1much]

ill get pics as soon as they come out of the bator,,,, i cant get pics very well in that little window thingy,,, lol,,, and HEY

,, i didnt say i wear DRESSES anymore

just PINK

 

[chickalator]

i filled my hovebator with gerogia giant egss last year for a feed store. i think there was about 120 in the turrner. long story short. 110 hatched.

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Do they do best with the humidity at 70% the whole time? Maybe that's why my hatch percentages aren't great.

 

[the1much]

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the odds are tipping more in my favor lol,,, i just took 1 egg out that started to leak

,,, but i think i got 1 or 2 pips,,, that or a piece of dust fell on em hehe

 

[shelleyd2008]

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With the button eggs I got from Tori I kept it at 50%+ during incubation, and at least 70% for the hatch. 18 candled clear, and out of the 30 eggs left there were only 3 that had quit early. The others either hatched (19) or died before pipping, but I had bumped the temp dial when I was taking some out, and it dropped and stayed around 88 for who knows how long, so that could be why the others didn't hatch.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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You need to have a 5 female to 1 male ratio. That is the most females per male to ensure fertility. If they are in trios is better, but only if they are in their own cages. If you have them all together in one pen/cage, keep it at 5:1 so the males don't fight.

 

[the1much]

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You need to have a 5 female to 1 male ratio. That is the most females per male to ensure fertility. If they are in trios is better, but only if they are in their own cages. If you have them all together in one pen/cage, keep it at 5:1 so the males don't fight.

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