PLEASE help! quail eggs are not hatching is there hope?

[calcifer]

Hello I bought 50 rare color mutation coturnix quail eggs from a well known farm, usps delivered them to my house 2 days later and I took them directly to a chicken breeder to hatch them (I am not very good and the eggs were expensive). today is day 18 and none of the eggs have even piped yet(pecked a whole in the shell or made noises). is there any hope that they will hatch? the breeder hatches eggs on a monthly basis and said that the temps have stayed very steady the whole time. when should I just give up? if they don't hatch should I call the farm? thanks

 

[kingmt]

Anything can happen in shipping. It is very common that your eggs get cooked in shipping. Also the hatcher may not realise that coturnix incubate at a higher temperature then chicken so they may hatch a few days late. I wouldn't give up hope till maybe day 21 & probably even wait till day 23 to toss them.

Is make sure the hatcher knows that quail & chicken shouldn't be crossed contaminanted. Chicken are carriers for some nasty stuff on quail.

 

[JaeG]

You can do a float test to see if their is a living chick inside - just search for 'float testing eggs' on this forum and there should be lots of posts that pop up as to what to do. It is essential that the egg has not pipped when you do this, otherwise you will drown them. Hopefully something will hatch, and as kingmt said they just may be a few days late due to lower incubation temperatures. My fingers are crossed for you!

 

[dc3085]

Float testing is not an accurate way to check for signs of life. If the chick doesn't move when you're floating it, then it will look like a dead egg. Float testing is intended to tell you only the freshness of an egg. If it happens that the chick moves while you're floating it then it will incidentally show you signs of life but it is not to be trusted as a sure way to see signs of life.

 

[mc4dale3]

Can anybody tell me how lo g they let there quail egg lay after you receive them in mail be for putting in Hatcher. I have done 24 hrs and 48 hrs did 24 last time bad hatching 50 out of 100 hatched

 

[dc3085]

24 hours in the room with the incubator before you set them

 

[kingmt]

50% is great for shipped eggs.

 

[Lobzi]

When near hatch day I tap on the egg and listen for response tapping from chick. Hold egg close to ear while doing test.

 

[kingmt]

Really? Or was that a joke?

 

[dc3085]

Hello I bought 50 rare color mutation coturnix quail eggs from a well known farm, usps delivered them to my house 2 days later and I took them directly to a chicken breeder to hatch them (I am not very good and the eggs were expensive). today is day 18 and none of the eggs have even piped yet(pecked a whole in the shell or made noises). is there any hope that they will hatch? the breeder hatches eggs on a monthly basis and said that the temps have stayed very steady the whole time. when should I just give up? if they don't hatch should I call the farm? thanks

Call Robby and talk to him. Worst case you'll learn what went wrong. When you ship eggs they run down conveyor belts and get knocked off them at their proper sorting spot. If the machine can't scan the box it keeps running down the conveyor getting flipped over until it can. That is just one process that a box deals with in shipping. Sometimes they boxes are carried in the back of hot trucks or abused by the drivers. There is almost an unlimited number of things that can go wrong shipping eggs.

For nothing to have hatched, either the person incubating made a mistake or something happened in shipping. Just because they incubate all the time doesn't mean the person you took the eggs didn't make a mistake either, that kind of thing happens.

When you received the eggs did you guys leave them in the room with incubator for 24 hours before you set them?