Sexing quail and colour

[Quailobsessed]

I have been fortunate enough to get mostly females in my clutches.

 

[SteveUK]

I have been fortunate enough to get mostly females in my clutches.

Do you think incubation temps can affect chick sex in quail?
I know higher chicken incubation temps are "supposed" to produce more males.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

Do you think incubation temps can affect chick sex in quail?
I know higher chicken incubation temps are "supposed" to produce more males.

I am also wondering this.

My first hatch was with a cheap china 'bator ... hatch rate was very good.
15 chicks from of 20 eggs.
But I got 10 males and only 5 females.

The extra thermometer I place in, showed 0.3°C + as the one of the 'bator.

Next hatch with this bator, I adjusted the temperature from 37.8 to 37.5 and had 13 chicks from 20 eggs ... 6 males and 7 females.

Unfortunately I didn't found any info about it.
Maybe just coincidence.... .

 

[Quailobsessed]

The hatch rates I was talking about weren't from an incubator, so I don't know the exact temperatures. You'll have to ask their parents

I don't know whether the temperatures effect the genders of the quails

 

[SteveUK]

I am also wondering this.

My first hatch was with a cheap china 'bator ... hatch rate was very good.
15 chicks from of 20 eggs.
But I got 10 males and only 5 females.

The extra thermometer I place in, showed 0.3°C + as the one of the 'bator.

Next hatch with this bator, I adjusted the temperature from 37.8 to 37.5 and had 13 chicks from 20 eggs ... 6 males and 7 females.

Unfortunately I didn't found any info about it.
Maybe just coincidence.... .

If there's no info out there this could be the place to create it. Trouble is recording accurate temp with cheap Chinese incubators and cheap humidity/temp gauges is difficult (I too have been there). I've used my new Brinsea Max11 EX to check my favorite gauge and at 37.5° the gauge reads 36.9° I also checked a glass thermometer and that was spot on.

 

[SteveUK]

The hatch rates I was talking about weren't from an incubator, so I don't know the exact temperatures. You'll have to ask their parents

I don't know whether the temperatures effect the genders of the quails

What! You haven't snuck a temp gauge under mum!?
That's just lazy!

 

[Nabiki]

Do you think incubation temps can affect chick sex in quail?
I know higher chicken incubation temps are "supposed" to produce more males.

None of the scientific papers I've read have found this to be the case. The experiments have been done.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

If there's no info out there this could be the place to create it. Trouble is recording accurate temp with cheap Chinese incubators and cheap humidity/temp gauges is difficult (I too have been there). I've used my new Brinsea Max11 EX to check my favorite gauge and at 37.5° the gauge reads 36.9° I also checked a glass thermometer and that was spot on.

Meanwhile I have also a Brinsea Ovation 56 EX ... much more steady and comfortable.

 

[SteveUK]

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None of the scientific papers I've read have found this to be the case. The experiments have been done.

Flippin scientist's.

 

[SteveUK]

Meanwhile I have also a Brinsea Ovation 56 EX ... much more steady and comfortable.

That's cool. I did a lot of studying before I chose the right new incubator for me and I'm Soooo happy with my Maxi EX. Makes me feel like there's something I should be doing, but there really isn't.
No external humidity pump is a bonus. Glad you like yours.