My quail eggs are hatching

[Quyen Le]

On day 17 and 18 coturnix quail eggs in lock down for hatching. Don't see any sign until today, can't wait.

 

[Quyen Le]

First one hatched at 1:35AM. My daughter and I stay awake to see the moment. It's a wonderful moment and I can't understand how can God pack this little bird in it's shell.

 

[redmouse]

It's amazing isn't it? They are packed so tight in that tiny little shell!

 

[Quyen Le]

Yes, so tight. I have 7 hatched, 6 pipped.

 

[Quyen Le]

This is home made incubator and it depends on my house temperature. When it's hot, it goes up and when air conditioning is turned on, it goes down. I have 90 as the lowest temp and one morning, I work up and saw it was 112 and thought they were all dead. I am glad the turn out rate is great even of the temp spikes.

 

[Quyen Le]

10 hatched, 2 died in shell. still have 6 eggs, 2 pipped.

 

[Quyen Le]

14 hatched, 2 eggs don't have any sign, I will give them another day. 14 out of initial 20 eggs with all the temp fluctuations, it's way more than I expected.

 

[SSTupperware]

Congrats... I hope to get a batch going in another month...

 

[Quyen Le]

Thanks. The 2 remain eggs were no good and I discarded them. They died. 70% is not bad for home made incubator for the first time.

 

[Quyen Le]

Today, my quails are 10 days old. They are big enough to chow gender and to my surprise, all 14 are female. How can this happen?