Quail pipping externally and then dying.

[Grammy60]

Hello and welcome to BYC We are so happy you have joined our community.

 

[N F C]

Hi, sorry you're having hatching issues. You could try posting here: Quail

Best of luck to you!

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

 

[Kiki]

Thank you everyone!

What is the humidity in your bator?

 

[Quail1567]

The humidity is at 75%.

 

[Kiki]

The humidity is at 75%.

That would be too high in my book.

I am going to guess that you were running your humidity on the too high side throughout too.

Are you trusting the built-in humidity gauge or did you buy a separate humidity gauge to salt test?

 

[Quail1567]

I'm using a separate humidity gauge.

 

[Kiki]

I'm using a separate humidity gauge.

What did you keep the humidity at for the first 15 or so days?

When the humidity is kept too high the eggs don't lose enough moisture and at the end when it's time to hatch there's too much moisture in the egg in which the bird usually drowns.

 

[Quail1567]

60% but I think that was a little high.

 

[Kiki]

Also I should say that I have not hatched Bob White's yet but I do hatch cotournix quail constantly.
I can tell you that with coturnix... I find they usually start hatching 24 hours after you see an external pip.