~Looks like it's not meant for me to hatch quail~

[_Randall_]

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Thanks for everyone's support. I'm not throwing these out. Maybe I shouldn't have tossed the other ones, but I figured after they had been 69º for several hours, their lives had been aborted. Oh well, just having this forum at hand, and reading about other's misfortunes gives me understanding that it's not as simple and sure as we'd like it to be

. I don't quit that easy...........I'm just a lil' frustrated

Thanks again.....

 

[Quail_Cottage]

Seems to me from all the different opinions on humidity ideal temps etc that everyone has, things can be out of whack for quite a while (even the whole incubation period) and you can still get a good hatch. Just remember we as humans are trying to duplicate natural conditions (I know a lot of folks say quail are not good at laying/sitting/hatching but they do manage to reproduce on their own) A quail hen in the wild wouldn't sit on her nest all the time...she has to eat too.....and no one has a problem taking eggs out of the bator to candle etc. All our facts and figures are our best guesses, a lot of it is that we are trying to get the most chicks from the batch. A hen doesn't have a thermometer to check if all the eggs are at 99.5 (or whatever) nature is not so strict. Fluctuations from the accepted ideals just make it less then perfect conditions, but I wonder if any hen in the woods (or suburban backyard) would have perfect conditions. Just my 0.02