Gathering, Setting and Incubation.
how many are ya'll setting? 20-60 Coturnix hopefully more. Depends on if my youngsters start laying
what kind of bator ya'll got? 2 LGs 1 for incubation 1 for hatch I get better hatches in these than I have in my Sportsman
incubation tips? Using dry incubation I've gotten better hatches this way lately
lockdown day? Doing this on day 14 since I tend to get early hatches
humidity? No water from day 1-14 not even checking humidity days 14-hatch I'll be following the cheat sheet done by Chookschick since I love it.
think back to your first Quail hatch, what have you learned? First time I hatched quail was way too many years ago, but they tend to hatch early!
let's get some data?
personal experience?. My birds are from 3 different breeders. Been decades since I had hatched quail. Got 12 test eggs in march, 3 hatched 2 died, hen (Tuxedo) is a laying machine and is in with a breeding group aquired from another breeder. Also have another breeding group and 20 chicks now in a growout pen from this same breeder. April I bought 110 Cortunix, shipped. 37 hatched, lost 10. Have been watching them to decide which ones to place with which. 12 roo and 15 hens. I have some goldens, so all of those will house together to increase my numbers. More goldens in with the other breeders chicks in the growout pen. Whatever is laying by them within a 5-10??? day span with be included in this hatch.
Would like to know timing of year, did it rain on your hatch day?
data, data, for the rooks and vets.
