So, it's Day 18..

[JJMR794]

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Oh dear.. That is sorta disheartening - especially when you're told how great the forced air incubators are. I will be sure to get on that stat.

THEY ARE GREAT, AND THE BRINSEAS EXCELL ABOVE ALL OTHERS, BUT EVERY DESIGN HAS ITS FLAWS

AND THIS FLAW IS INHERENT IN ALL FORCED AIR BATORS, THE ECOS ARE A SMALL AIR SPACE/ ENVIRONMENT- THEY STAY ROCK SOLID STEADY BECAUSE OF THIS WHICH MAKES THEM PHENOMENAL INCUBATORS, BUT SINCE THE SPACE IS SMALL AND THE FAN COLSE TO ALL EGGS IN THE BATOR THIS COMPLICATION GETS A LIL MORE PRONOUNCED. JUST TAKE A DISPOSEABLE DIAPER AND DAMPEN IT, LAY IT OVER THE EGGS AND THEY WILL DO FINE--- IT SIMPLY STOPS THE DIRECT AIR FLOW ONTO THE PIPPED EGGS SO THEY DONT DRY OUT AS BAD

I RUN LOTSA BRINSEA ECOS--- BOTH 20'S AND 40'S AS WELL AS CABINETS AND COOLER BATORS IN STILL AND FORCED AIR. I GOT INTO THE HABIT OF USING STILL AIR COOLERBATOR FOR A HATCHER. IT REALLY SIMPLIFIES THINGS AS I KEEP THE HATCHERS HIGH HUMIDITY AND THE BATORS REGULAR HUMIDITY. WHEN ITS TIME FOR THE CHANGE (LOCKDOWN) I JUST MOVE THE EGGS

 

[Stellar]

Forced air is great but the chicks should have hatched around 17-18 days. I am wondering why it's taking longer for them to hatch for some people lately. Unless you are opening the incubator every 5 min (which you shouldn't ), the incubation time should be on the dot.

 

[adubsroit]

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This was something similar to what happened with some Bearded Belgian d'Anver bantams that I hatched not to long ago. Hatch days were not consistent, and though it was a good hatch a lot could have been said for the conditions as to how they got to me. In this instance the quail eggs came from the east coast, and I am all the ways west in the mountains of Eastern Oregon. In the time they shipped we had below freezing (20's to low 30's) and our post office is not very keen to pay mind to "FRAGILE" labels. Simply from this batch of 42 eggs only 17 were viable and so far only 10 have hatched.

I have opened the incubator from time to time, but only to move quail from their small confines as some were sitting on the pip holes of other eggs and I was worried for the unhatched chicks ability to breathe. I also covered the eggs last night in hopes that might help stave off the forced air issues. I'm figuring to wait until the end of today to see what happens with the remaining eggs. 10 quail chicks is an okay number for me, especially seeing as how it is my first time around.

 

[Stellar]

Out of 17 eggs (since those are the viable ones) 10 hatch not too bad. They could have been xrayed, box jiggled, you never know.