Where to order True Blue Celadon hatching eggs?

[GoosesGeeses]

Hi everybody, I have been wanting to raise true blue celadon quail since I started raising quail 4 years ago. I have had celadon, but they didn't lay blue eggs. I have been looking for eggs, but don't know of any reliable sellers, as I have never bought and hatched shipped eggs. Any reliable sellers you guys know of ? Thanks!

 

[GodLovesU]

I’ve seen some sellers on Etsy but I’ve never ordered from them

 

[Kedreeva]

In case you didn't find any, or in case someone else finds this thread and is looking, I raise 100% blue celadons (homozygous males and females), and can now ship eggs.

 

[becomingquailmommy]

In case you didn't find any, or in case someone else finds this thread and is looking, I raise 100% blue celadons (homozygous males and females), and can now ship eggs.

I’m looking for someone reputable to order celadon true blue hatching eggs from…is it advisable to only order within our own home state? Didn’t have the best hatch rate with my first round

 

[Kedreeva]

I’m looking for someone reputable to order celadon true blue hatching eggs from…is it advisable to only order within our own home state? Didn’t have the best hatch rate with my first round

You can order from any continental US state, it will go through the mail regardless, with the same risks whether it's shipped from next door or across the country, the only difference is a little more time on the road (although, I've had boxes shipped to me from my state that went across country first... so that's not even always true either). Shipped eggs always have a worse hatch rate than fresh local eggs- a GOOD (or at least, the expected) hatch rate is only 50%, so if you got 50% or more, you're doing well for hatching shipped eggs. Celadon eggs can be a little harder to hatch; they're missing the outer brown layer of shell, so they can lose moisture faster than normal, which just means you usually have to keep the humidity a little higher (quail eggs hatch best if you do dry incubation, 15-30% humidity), around 25-40%.

 

[becomingquailmommy]

You can order from any continental US state, it will go through the mail regardless, with the same risks whether it's shipped from next door or across the country, the only difference is a little more time on the road (although, I've had boxes shipped to me from my state that went across country first... so that's not even always true either). Shipped eggs always have a worse hatch rate than fresh local eggs- a GOOD (or at least, the expected) hatch rate is only 50%, so if you got 50% or more, you're doing well for hatching shipped eggs. Celadon eggs can be a little harder to hatch; they're missing the outer brown layer of shell, so they can lose moisture faster than normal, which just means you usually have to keep the humidity a little higher (quail eggs hatch best if you do dry incubation, 15-30% humidity), around 25-40%.

You can order from any continental US state, it will go through the mail regardless, with the same risks whether it's shipped from next door or across the country, the only difference is a little more time on the road (although, I've had boxes shipped to me from my state that went across country first... so that's not even always true either). Shipped eggs always have a worse hatch rate than fresh local eggs- a GOOD (or at least, the expected) hatch rate is only 50%, so if you got 50% or more, you're doing well for hatching shipped eggs. Celadon eggs can be a little harder to hatch; they're missing the outer brown layer of shell, so they can lose moisture faster than normal, which just means you usually have to keep the humidity a little higher (quail eggs hatch best if you do dry incubation, 15-30% humidity), around 25-40%.

Thank you! So, dry hatch quail eggs UNLESS it’s a celadon? The person I got our first eggs from said I needed to keep humidity above 60% and it was nearly impossible with the incubator we used.

 

[Kedreeva]

Thank you! So, dry hatch quail eggs UNLESS it’s a celadon? The person I got our first eggs from said I needed to keep humidity above 60% and it was nearly impossible with the incubator we used.

oh lord. No, if you incubate at 60% the whole way through, the chicks just drown in the egg at hatching time because they haven't lost enough moisture. 60% is lockdown humidity.

I'll be honest, I hatch a couple dozen celadons every week from my birds, and they just get 'dry' hatched along with everyone else, BUT with the caveat that 3-4 of those 16 days of incubation are at 60-65% because they're in the same incubator as the hatches that come before them, so they experience a lockdown humidity period early in the incubation. But the rest of the time, the humidity sits at 15-25%, I don't add any water to my incubator, and typically if it starts growing, it hatches. You do have to bump the humidity at lockdown (day 14 for them), I bump to 60-65% definitely not above 70%. It's harder to do in smaller incubators, mine's a cabinet. So, there's wiggle room, I think. You want the egg to lose a good deal of moisture, but not completely dry out the membrane. When you candle at day 14 before locking down, you should see a pretty generously-sized air cell, 1/4-1/3 of the egg should be air, compared to almost not being able to see an air cell at the tippy top when you first candle on Day 0. that's how you know you have the humidity right, more than a set percentage.