What is the lowest humidity you have used to hatch quail?

[feedman77]

My experimental batch I got 102 out of 144 eggs set. I didn't candle for cleats. Cots.

I have Bob's hatching now. Looks to be 15 of 20 pipping so far.

 

[birdmandan]

Funny story. I had major issues with my humidity so incubated at 70% with 85% at lockdown. I hatched 22/24 fertile eggs. I removes 6 infertiles before lockdown. That is my best result so far. I might throw the dry hatch out the window and stick to the insanely high humidity.

 

[dpenning]

Well, assuming the only thing that went wrong the week I was out of town was the low humidity, I think I'll stick to 40-50% as well. With the humidity dropping to 23% when I got home from my vacation I've had one pip but no hatch. My birds have also decided the days are too short to lay anymore too so I may be done till spring. I may have to look into artificial light.

 

[dpenning]

Well, assuming the only thing that went wrong the week I was out of town was the low humidity, I think I'll stick to 40-50% as well. With the humidity dropping to 23% when I got home from my vacation I've had one pip but no hatch. My birds have also decided the days are too short to lay anymore too so I may be done till spring. I may have to look into artificial light.

Apparently I didn't count my days correctly, all but three wound up hatching. Tough little buggers.

 

[PingoBags]

My first and only batch, my humidity was 40 and 70 at lockdown. 16 out of 18 hatched and all 16 lived. I'm currently incubating another batch at the same humidity but I made a new temp controller with little to no fluctuation, my last controller had a slight drift.

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I'm in Europe and I've done a little experiment, were basically i got thirty eggs to see what would happen. Now about 10 eggs grew chicks and the whole time I've had a little water in the bottom and is that bad, like will the eggs die? My humidity has been going from 36 to 46 and the temp is always 37.7 in celcius, they seem fine but you all seem like you know what you're doing i think I'm doing alright there on day 6 and they all are looking perfect.

 

[Nabiki]

I'm in Europe and I've done a little experiment, were basically i got thirty eggs to see what would happen. Now about 10 eggs grew chicks and the whole time I've had a little water in the bottom and is that bad, like will the eggs die? My humidity has been going from 36 to 46 and the temp is always 37.7 in celcius, they seem fine but you all seem like you know what you're doing i think I'm doing alright there on day 6 and they all are looking perfect.

I've had my best results with about 30% humidity during incubation and bumping it up to 50-60% at lockdown.

 

[threeepeat]

When I tested my incubator before my first attempt, I discovered that it ran at about 21% RH when dry, and bumped all the way up to around 75% with a little water added (in the recommended way). It's crazy that the winter humidity here can be 90% outdoors, while only 30% indoors.

I tried to address these extremes, first by keeping it dry for a a few days, and then adding the water (which fully evaporated in 3 days), hoping for a reasonable average RH over time. Later, I tried adding little jar lids of water rather that the full reservoir to reduce the surface area of water, hoping for a lower high RH. That worked.

Sorry I'm not really answering your question because I'm new to this, but these are a couple options for playing with your levels.

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

When I tested my incubator before my first attempt, I discovered that it ran at about 21% RH when dry, and bumped all the way up to around 75% with a little water added (in the recommended way). It's crazy that the winter humidity here can be 90% outdoors, while only 30% indoors.

I tried to address these extremes, first by keeping it dry for a a few days, and then adding the water (which fully evaporated in 3 days), hoping for a reasonable average RH over time. Later, I tried adding little jar lids of water rather that the full reservoir to reduce the surface area of water, hoping for a lower high RH. That worked.

Sorry I'm not really answering your question because I'm new to this, but these are a couple options for playing with your levels.

Ok that's I'm going to try this in my current and future hatching projects.