Let's plan a Quail egg hatch... set 'em Sept. 1, hatch 'em Sept 17-19+

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I started setting aside eggs for the Hatchalong. Do I have to worry about humidity? I don't have a really cool place to store them, so I put them in the basement on the counter (it's cooler, but not 60-65 deg!) in the egg turner. I'm just wondering if I need to worry about moisture loss.

I'm betting my husband on the fertility. I know at least half the eggs should be fertile. I've got two bald hens to prove it. The other hens are English Whites and they are not favored by the males. Lucky them. Anyway, I'm excited to try to hatch eggs that I've collected from my own birds versus shipped eggs.

My daughter came home yesterday from her first day of 4th grade and one of the highlights of 4th grade is hatching eggs. She's like, "Yeah, been there, done that." Hatching coturnix in the 4th grade is how I got HERE!
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Get ur self A 12pack sized cooler and keep your eggs in it. If you use a large measuring cup sized bowl, for ice, the melting ice will not only keep the cooler around 60ish deg. It will raise the humidity too, thus keeping the eggs from losing too much moisture before you set them... Win-Win!! Or just freeze a pop bottle with water and change it out morning and night. This will produce higher hatch rates, Iv been doing it ever since Randall mentioned it about a month ago... Good luck, Bill
 
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Do you think if I put the turner in the hoverbator (not turned on) with a frozen water bottle that would work?

I'd only run into issues when I want to start up the hoverbator the 2 days before the hatch.

I wonder if I can set the basement fridge up to 60...
 
I set the 40 I didn't want to wait on and started collecting for the hatch yesterday.

I got 2! Count em 2 lousy eggs yesterday. They're working against me. Was hoping by now I'd even be able to share some. Nope, will have to be stingy I guess.
 
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Yep...Just checked and I have 2 more so far. I'm pulling in an ice chest today. I want to save everything I get. Now to keep my adult daughter away from them. She dropped a flashlight on some the other day while they were sitting next to the hatcher on the way to the bator. She's not to in to my birds, but there was a hatch going on and she kept running in to watch. I lost seven or 8 eggs and only set the 40.

My 5 year old grand daughter wanted to fry them up. She hasn't eatten a chicken egg since she first tried quail eggs. She likes to see all the tiny yolks and says they taste better than chicken eggs.
 

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