Quail Eggs Sent From Purple Chicken-Three gorgeous babies! (pg 3)

[SamG347]

Takes a keen eye to see through the Coturnix egg....It really varies from egg to egg. I have some eggs I can see through quiet well...others that I have a hard time with. But after doing a coule hundred eggs you start to get the picture.

 

[miss_jayne]

thanks for the info! so i wont feel bad if i cannot see inside!

 

[SamG347]

What I usually do is just wait until day 8+ to candle. That way you know...if you cant see through the egg it is probably developing if the egg looks clear/you can see a visible blood ring....toss it. I use a maglight for candeling. I also sometimes can "feel" the egg. If It feels warmer/heavier I usually know something is developing...but I would not base which eggs I keep and which I ditch on that.
Good Luck with the eggs...you will be hatching out my Great Grand Quails.

 

[miss_jayne]

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thank you thank you! Great Grand Quail...gotta look that up!

 

[citalk2much]

Best of hatching luck MJ

 

[monarc23]

you would be amazed the colors that coturnix eggs can come in....I got over 100 today from a breeder, and ONE IS GREEN! First time i got one of those.... it's like a blue green it's pretty nifty

I'll have to post my on thread on it so I can keep it updated with who hatches. I hope the green one hatches just so I can keep it around in my incubator instead of having to pitch it. HOwever its' so dark I bet I can't even see inside of it.


I use an LED penlight btw

I love it

 

[miss_jayne]

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thanks for the well wish!


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ooooooh! i want to see!

 

[CheerfulChaos]

I just have to put in a plug for my new high-powered flashlight. It is 100 lumens and 6 LED's. It cost about $20 at Lowe's and I'm pretty sure you can find something similar at HomeDepot. It put's my my mini-mag to shame! I candled all 51 remaining coturnix eggs in my incubator when I took them out of the auto-turner, and I was amazed at how well I could see the air sac level and dark area of the egg vs. the clear or murky ones. I can even see through my dark green EE eggs with this thing. If you're going to candle coturnix, I highly recommend getting one of these! We made a one inch paper cone that DH taped to the end of this small light in order to narrow the opening even further for the quail eggs. The tip about the candler came from Mahonri's post when he was hatching marans eggs "Well, we went to Home Depot and bought a light that does 105 Lumens... it has a caution sign on it as it can damage human eyes!, so we could see through EVERY egg, including the Cuckoo Marans!"

 

[Boyd]

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thanks for the well wish!


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ooooooh! i want to see!

Me 2 me2! I want to see a pic Monarc!

 

[miss_jayne]

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um, going to HD to get one! CC, you rock, you rock hard. thanks lady!