- Nov 13, 2017
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I'm fairly new to quail and have been raising them since October. I bought 6 young Coturnix quail (5 hens and 1 rooster). I've had 4 hatching so far with the first at about 30% and the last three at under 10%.
I'm using a forced air incubator from Farm Innovators. It's a Pro Series Incubator Model 4200. When I'm accumulating eggs I bring them into the house and immediately put them in an automatic egg turner pointy side down. After 7-10 days accumulation I float the eggs and cull any floaters and load the pre-heated and sanitized (99-100 deg F at egg height and 40-50% humidity) incubator. At 14 days I remove the eggs from the automatic turner, place them on the wire mesh and increase the humidity to about 70%.
My last three hatching's were all early (16 days) with few survivors after that. Autopsy of the unhatched eggs showed mostly (>70%) what seemed to be health embryos that just didn't hatch.
I've double checked temps and humidity reading with two digital temp/humidity monitors from Walmart and they read pretty consistently, varying only a couple degrees and maybe 4% humidity.
Anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
I'm using a forced air incubator from Farm Innovators. It's a Pro Series Incubator Model 4200. When I'm accumulating eggs I bring them into the house and immediately put them in an automatic egg turner pointy side down. After 7-10 days accumulation I float the eggs and cull any floaters and load the pre-heated and sanitized (99-100 deg F at egg height and 40-50% humidity) incubator. At 14 days I remove the eggs from the automatic turner, place them on the wire mesh and increase the humidity to about 70%.
My last three hatching's were all early (16 days) with few survivors after that. Autopsy of the unhatched eggs showed mostly (>70%) what seemed to be health embryos that just didn't hatch.
I've double checked temps and humidity reading with two digital temp/humidity monitors from Walmart and they read pretty consistently, varying only a couple degrees and maybe 4% humidity.
Anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong?