Out of 80 eggs, only 40 are growing... what do you think?

ChickFila

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I bought 75 jumbo cortunix eggs, got 5 extras, and set them 11 days ago. Today, I candled them and 40 are clear.
Is it normal for quail eggs? It is the first time incubating quail eggs.
I am very disappointed...
When I saw the ads, all breeders said that they got 80%-90% hatch rate. Are they all liars?
I didn't have this bad developing rate even with shipped chicken eggs.
Any thoughts?
 
no but if they are shipped eggs count on only getting 50% that is the norm. If you get 40 to hatch thats great and in 6 weeks you will have enough eggs to start over again. If you get 20 eggs a day and save them for 5 days you got your investment back. trust me 40 quail is enough poop to get started with
 
Are you cookin them like chicken eggs? They require a higher humidity for both incubation and hatch...

But as macNugget states 50% hatch on shipped eggs is good.
 
The feedback may be doctored a bit but congrats on the 40%. I normally get about 95% to start to develop but lucky to get 10% to hatch. The eggs I got from Frindtofowl being the exception. I got a little shy of 70% to hatch & was very excited.
 
I just bought some local quail eggs and the ones I got from JJ are laying, I set some of my bobs and the local ones I expect the success rate to be higher on them, and the ones I got from friend of fowl should be laying in another 3 weeks it was only my 2nd hatch I got about 65% of the eggs hatched that I got from her . I cooked mine like everyone here says to I ran 55-60% RH first 14 days then 70%+during lockdown 99.5-100* I am finding out my bator has hot spots and cool spots even with a fan circulating the air
 
Breeders usually get a higher percentage then buyers. Not always the case but they aren't neccisarily lying if the buyer gets lower hatches. It's just the case of transporting and other conditions that are not the same as the sellers. If the eggs are shipped like others said they have had a hard trip and 50% can be norm. Sure there are 100% hatches with shipped eggs but that definately isn't the norm.
 

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