enigmachick
Chirping
We are at day 10 with our first ever quail and I'm starting to get a little nervous about them. Firstly we started with 30, three ended up cracked (one was accident, one came that way and one cracked mysteriously in the incubator), we just candled them all tonight and a whopping 7 more appeared completely infertile. Two look like they gave up early (but they're in the incubator for a couple days just in case).
I also noticed when candling the air sacs were small, like quite quite small which really surprised me because I'm doing a dry hatch and the humidity has been around 20-30 generally I'd say. They look way smaller than my quail book says they should be at day 6 much less 10.
I'm not sure if this is all normal or if I'm doing something wrong, the eggs are from Myshire farm and they're in a magicfly incubator set at 37.6 celsius with separate thermometer reading in the 99'sF.
I'm definitely getting pre-hatch jitters and I'm surprised that I'm already down by almost half, only 18 chicks likely still alive of the 30 eggs. Is this normal?
I also noticed when candling the air sacs were small, like quite quite small which really surprised me because I'm doing a dry hatch and the humidity has been around 20-30 generally I'd say. They look way smaller than my quail book says they should be at day 6 much less 10.
I'm not sure if this is all normal or if I'm doing something wrong, the eggs are from Myshire farm and they're in a magicfly incubator set at 37.6 celsius with separate thermometer reading in the 99'sF.
I'm definitely getting pre-hatch jitters and I'm surprised that I'm already down by almost half, only 18 chicks likely still alive of the 30 eggs. Is this normal?