Quail hatch along! (with my own bodyheat)

[Nibbles and wiggles]

I recently saw a video a a guy on YouTube hatch a duck with his own body heat using a homemade wearable incubator. I've been wanting to try this for awhile so I followed video best i could and made a wearable incubator. At 10:14 am today I chose two coturnix quail eggs, and in three days I will candle them and hopefully see some little babies! I'll post updates throughout incubation and hatching!

 

[AZcluckers]

Good luck! I can't wait to see updates!

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

I used a thermometer to take the temperature a few times and it's staying right around 97.6°F. Is this warm enough to hatch them?

 

[Jener8or]

I used a thermometer to take the temperature a few times and it's staying right around 97.6°F. Is this warm enough to hatch them?

Nope, I think that's still too cold. You'll want to get it as close to 99.5°F as possible. A channel I watched called "A Chick Called Albert" used a mylar emergency insulation blanket to raise the temperature for his "incubator."

Maybe something similar would work (like the thermo-insulated bubble wrap--it's for keeping things cold, but could help the other way around possibly as well.)

Is this the original video you watched? I forgot it was a duck egg he hatched.

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

That was the original video I watched it was so cool to see him hatch it with just his own energy! I based my wearable incubator on the one he used. I do not have either of those materials on hand right now. Do you think tin foil could work for the time being?

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

Okay I did add two layers of tin foil and I crocheted a cover with 5mm yarn to go around the whole thing except for where the eggs are against my skin. I will take the temperature again in a few hours and see if that helps.

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

I just took the tempurature and it got up to 98.3°F

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

This morning I candled the eggs (day two and 20 hours) and one if them just has a dark yolk shadow in the middle which is what I expected. However the other has some sort of jiggly mass at the wide end of the shell that is just barely darker than the rest, and I have no clue what that means. Has anyone seen this before or do you know what it means?

 

[Nibbles and wiggles]

Those are pictures of the weird egg. I hope the pictures show up I'm not sure if I'm doing this right.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

I recently saw a video a a guy on YouTube hatch a duck with his own body heat using a homemade wearable incubator. I've been wanting to try this for awhile so I followed video best i could and made a wearable incubator. At 10:14 am today I chose two coturnix quail eggs, and in three days I will candle them and hopefully see some little babies! I'll post updates throughout incubation and hatching!

no way! I saw that video too! it was cool