Okies in the BYC The Original

[poultryand bees]

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What kind of incubator do you have? You can buy the quail sized yellow cup holder bars for a Hovabator turner at Atwoods. If you hatch in a Sportsman, you can buy the holders that are the size of a 30 chicken egg flat carton - but sized for quail eggs - on several poultry sites. Unless you plan to hatch a ton of them however, you only need one since one will hold about 60+ quail eggs.

You can also lay the quail eggs flat in a incubator and roll your hand across them left to right one time and then right to left the next time - you can turn a lot of them at the same time that way. Like any egg, you just need to rock them from side to side so the yolk doesn't stick to the shell, but you don't want to roll them in the same direction each time because you don't want to twist the white cord that goes from the yolk to the membrane inside of the shell and provides blood to the chick while in the shell.

 

[poultryand bees]

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congratulations! Are these going to be house babies for a few weeks to make sure that nothing happens to them?

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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congratulations! Are these going to be house babies for a few weeks to make sure that nothing happens to them?

But of course!

At least until they feather out or become too big to comfortably fit in the brooder.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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I have some of those quail egg trays, they came with my hovabator turner.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Quail eggs, although more fragile than chicken eggs, shouldn't crack if they were not already damaged and you roll them gently with the flat of your palm. My biggest challenge is to remember not to put more than one in my hand at a time and then accidently squeeze them together - they crack like a couple of pecans squeezed against each other.

 

[donnie]

lucky i only got the chicken egg turners with the lg and so im using that turner for chicken eggs , i have 46 chicken eggs on lockdown right now , and i checked my quail eggs and out of 60 none of them were good so idk what the crap so im wanting to try them in a turner for another shot but im starting to think that maybe the person im getting them from has issue with roos or something since this is the second round of her quail eggs and nothing so far

 

[poultryand bees]

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I have some of those quail egg trays, they came with my hovabator turner.

I have one set of the quail egg bars for my Hovabator turner - right now I have one bar braced inside the turning tray on the sportsman, with button quail eggs in the egg slots and one quail sized bar in the Hovabator, with 5 egg holder bars for chicken eggs.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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That's a downer...

Well, if you want the trays just let me know. I can send'em to you for the cost of postage.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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I have some of those quail egg trays, they came with my hovabator turner.

I have one set of the quail egg bars for my Hovabator turner - right now I have one bar braced inside the turning tray on the sportsman, with button quail eggs in the egg slots and one quail sized bar in the Hovabator, with 5 egg holder bars for chicken eggs.

A little southern engineering there, eh?

I don't think I'll ever be hatching quail so the trays are just sitting around collecting dust.

 

[poultryand bees]

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Have any of the eggs started to develop? (are they starting to develop and then quitting?) Have you checked them to see if there is a bullseye look to the white dot on the egg yolk? If they are starting to develp and quitting, it could be a nutrition issue of the hens or an incubator issue. If you are putting then into chicken egg sized cups without any padding, they may be rattling around too much in the turner and getting "scrambled" inside.