Resting eggs before incubating?

[kabuky]

Never heard of one (avid birder and coturnix keeper) so had to Google it, pretty cool, though I personally hope to see a California or gambels someday, I don’t aspire to raise them (and motezumas are gorgeous)! I’ve had great and terrible hatches with shipped coturnix eggs, I hope yours goes well, detached or saddled air cells are a very bad sign. On shipped eggs I rest them for 12-24 hours unless they’ve been in transit for a week, then I just let the temp equilabrate for a few hours and start as old eggs are probably a bigger issue than air cells (if the embryos have been damaged by shipping, detached air cells are a symptom rather than the causative issue, sitting still isn’t going to fix that and getting older and adding more age damage will worsen it).

If you should want California Valley Quail eggs, let me know next spring. I have a dozen or two in the incubator at the moment and a few one month old chicks. They are a favorite of mine. I love their calls to each other...