Hi,
On a whim, I purchased a dozen quail eggs that were sitting in a basket for around 6 days at my local feed store. I put them in a dish tub with a red heat bulb and a thermometer used for brooding. I put a cup of water in the tub for moisture. lets see..... I think the thermometer read 104 more than once, the lamp I was using died, allowing the temp to drop to 85 overnight and didn't mark them so I'm not even sure how many i was actually turning. 15 days later, I got an incubator and some chicken eggs from a friend, so I put the quail eggs in there too.
I read threads on this site and figured they were all lost to stupidity and was planning on float testing them tomorrow (day 21). Well today I came home to TWO little chicks! I'm still trying to figure out how that happened and how long I should wait before floating the rest. Any suggestions?
On a whim, I purchased a dozen quail eggs that were sitting in a basket for around 6 days at my local feed store. I put them in a dish tub with a red heat bulb and a thermometer used for brooding. I put a cup of water in the tub for moisture. lets see..... I think the thermometer read 104 more than once, the lamp I was using died, allowing the temp to drop to 85 overnight and didn't mark them so I'm not even sure how many i was actually turning. 15 days later, I got an incubator and some chicken eggs from a friend, so I put the quail eggs in there too.
I read threads on this site and figured they were all lost to stupidity and was planning on float testing them tomorrow (day 21). Well today I came home to TWO little chicks! I'm still trying to figure out how that happened and how long I should wait before floating the rest. Any suggestions?
