Letting eggs sit after shipping

[Floof]

I look forward to hearing about your results! I thought about ordering another batch from that seller but decided to try someone in Texas instead. Downside is the Texas seller sells A&M quail and I really enjoyed being able to sex the jumbo Browns by color. If you have good results I may decide to try again

 

[chickmashnoon]

I have candled about 1/3 of them, I have 3 that are either infertile or early quitters, but the others seem to be on target. One of the eggs with the deep scratch has the air cell on the pointed end but is developing and has movement. Do I leave it with the pointy end down? I will hatch it on its side, but not sure what to do with it for the next couple days.

 

[Quaillvr]

Yy

If you got them from eBay, from the same guy in Pennsylvania that I ordered my last batch from, I hope you have better luck than I did. Out of 59 eggs set, 19 didn't develop at all, 28 couldn't make it out of their shells or died sometime towards the end, and only 12 hatched. We had to cull one due to severe leg deformity and only 2 of the surviving quail were female. I eggtopsied every egg that didn't hatch and it looked like a lot of them had suffered from the low humidity. I had run the incubator at ~45 until the last 5 days when I ramped it up to ~67, which was still too low for these little guys. I think they lost too much moisture during shipping.

Good luck!

I did the same thing, ordered from eBay the first time. 14 hatched out of 40 eggs. I. Eggtopsied and 12 didn't make it out of the shell, the rest were infertile.