Raising Quail Articles

There can be a number of reasons for quail eggs not hatching. Breeding, feeding, and management of the egg production flock; care of the eggs before incubation; and the incubation environment: these all cause bad hatch rates

When raising quail, you absolutely need to know how to care for the quail eggs and your breeder stock. If you don’t do it properly, here are some of the problems you may have:

1. Candling your quail eggs after about 7 days of incubating, the inside of the eggs are clear with no blood ring or embryo growth.

Possible causes for this problem:
a. Infertile eggs.
b. Breeding quail not compatible.
c. quail eggs not being stored properly, Quail egg storage area below 40 degrees.
d. Eggs held to long before incubating.
e. Eggs taken from storage and put in incubator before reaching room temperature.

2. Candled quail eggs are clear with some blood and small embryo.

Possible causes for this problem:
a. Incubation setting to high.
b. Storing eggs improperly, temperature below 40 degrees or above 60 degrees
c. Eggs taken from storage and put in incubator before reaching room temperature.

3. Dead embryo’s before hatch is due.

Possible causes for this problem:
a. Quail eggs not being turned enough.
b. Lack of oxygen
c. Incubator to hot or to cold.
d. Breeder’s not getting a good layer diet.

4. Chicks pip but do not hatch.

Possible causes for this problem:
a. Improper humidity, not raised by 20 percent 3 days before hatch.
b. Incubator temperature to low during incubation period.
c. Temperature may have spiked without your knowledge.

5. Eggs hatching early, with abnormalities.

Possible cause for this problem:
a. Temperature to high
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6. Quail eggs not hatching on time.

Possible cause for this problem
a. Temperature not at proper hatching temperature.

7. Quail chicks hatch and show early problems.

Possible causes for this problem:
a. Breeders were inbred’s.
b. Breeder stock were not managed properly.
c. Incubator set to hot.

When raising quaill and incubating your own eggs, every hatch is not going to be great. Sometimes you may run into problems. What I have listed above is just some of the problems you may have and some possible causes.

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When raising quail and incubating eggs, you may want to think about purchasing a candling device. This device is just a small little light which can be purchased on the internet for a small amount of money. This small little lighting device can be an important tool to your have for your quail raising venture.

When raising quail, it is very likely that you will be incubating eggs. You place your eggs in the incubator with very high expectations and then begin to count down the days until hatch.

By candling your eggs after about 5 days you should start to see some embryo development. If it is developing properly, you should start to notice a pinkish cast. If you don’t notice any change inside the egg, especially by day 10 and the inside of the egg remains clear. It is time to pitch the clear eggs, they are not fertile.

When the egg starts to reach the end of incubation, the inside of the egg should look dark except for the little air pocket.

Candling eggs will have no effect on your incubation time and will not hurt your eggs. You just have to handle the eggs with care and dont candle them more than a couple times during incubation.

Also when candling, be precise and do this process in a way to be gentle yet quick as to not let the temperature of the egg cool to much.

When raising quail learning how to handle eggs gently is very important and learning the process of candling can save you disappointment.

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To find out more about Raising Quail visit:
How to Raise Quail.com
Copyright © Gary Ortlieb
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