Quail hatch today

[scatteredeggs]

did u have an egg turner? (me think turning manually will cause temp fluctuations while doing it. will that affect hatchability?) (no experience here, in the process of researching)

 

[shelleyd2008]

Hand turning doesn't cause temp fluctuations any longer than it would take you to turn the eggs and put the top back on. I don't know why everyone freaks out about opening the incubator.

 

[JJMR794]

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CAN YOU PROVIDE OTHER REASONING THAT MAKES THE AUTO TURNING METHOD PRODUCE A BETTER HATCH RATE?

 

[mxpres]

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Yes I use a turner,that way I don't have to open the bator because I think that would cause a temp and humidity drop that would be harmful to the hatch,some have came up with different versions of a hand turner with great results..a thing about all the do's and don'ts.I had 19 quail eggs in the bator several weeks ago.a tornado came through my neighborhood and i lost power for five hours,temp dropped to 74 and the humidity dropped to 25,that was one week from hatch date,I had 5 birds hatch,,two had died in the shell,the others was not fertile,,another thing to ponder,I had one bird that was just visible and I could see movement in the shell through a small crack in the shell,the bird didn't make any progress so I left it alone.the bird stayed in the shell for almost 15 hours with no progress,I was going to dump the eggs so my wife insisted on breaking the shell for the late bloomer,I told her to let nature run its course that the bird would surely die if she opened the shell..she opened the shell,the bird survived

and is very active and healthy..so theirs no real set pattern on what works and what won't .I guess we just have a borderline and sometimes we go from one side to the other

 

[shelleyd2008]

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CAN YOU PROVIDE OTHER REASONING THAT MAKES THE AUTO TURNING METHOD PRODUCE A BETTER HATCH RATE?

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I've not seen any evidence showing that one way or the other is better. Maybe because hand turning usually jars the eggs and they don't get turned as often as with an auto turner. My hens have much better hatches than I do, even with my own eggs. I'm pretty sure they 'hand' turn their eggs. And I'm also pretty sure they don't sit on the eggs non-stop for 3 weeks.

 

[Ga.chickenman]

 

[Chick Charm]

me too.

 

[MobyQuail]

congrats on the hatch, where are the pictures

I just started operation Quail lockdown here. LG, still air, dry incubated @ 99.5-101.7, hand turned and rotated around, upped humidity and egg carton hatching commences now...