when do buttons hatch?

[chickenlady81]

When do you guys lock down your buttons and at what humidity? Also what about jumbo quail? Im on day 15 with my buttons and I cant get the humidity up past 50%!

 

[Doodle_Doo]

Buttons take 16 days stop turning at 13 days humidity at 60-65%

 

[gryeyes]

Y'all may laugh at me - or swear at my ignorance - but when I saw the subject line, I immediately thought of my broody hen setting on her 3 eggs and a golf ball. I thought, wow, must be some bantam breed, to have a hen setting on a BUTTON; I thought the OP was making a joke. After all, another thread listed a silkie who was "brooding" a small Tupperware container.

So, forgive me for side-tracking the thread. The subject line lured me in, and then I had to say why.

 

[chickenlady81]

what about jumbo quail?

 

[chickenlady81]

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yeah I can just see it now, some bantie sitting on a bunch of buttons! lol

 

[s_and_ke]

I read somewhere about day 20 in an incubator for buttons, I do not know about jumbo quail.