Comments on: What Can Cause Poor Hatch Rates When Raising Quail?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:10:35 +0000

What kind of humidity are you running in your hatcher incubator? Are you running 80% steady with no downward flucuating. This is an absolute must. Did you break the one open between the incubator and placing in the hatcher or after being in the hatcher. Sometimes it can take longer than 3 days for the chicks to hatch. You say everythings seems normal with the quail chicks growth. Have you candled the eggs while in the hatcher and actually seen movement or are they dead before reaching the hatcher. Do you disinfect your incubators between each batch of eggs. One other thing, just because they show normal growth doesn’t make them good eggs. If you are doing the things I mentioned above, you may want to buy your eggs from someone else to try.

By: Anastasia

Anastasia — Sun, 13 May 2012 22:14:01 +0000

Me and my dad have been raising quail for about a year now. Last year we bought eggs off the internet and incubated them, now they are laying eggs and we can’t seem to get them to hatch. We have a still air incubator and the humidity and temperature are both right for both incubators( we have a seperate incubator to put them in 3 days before hatching). We candled the eggs and discarded the bad ones 7 days into incubation. The eggs seem to be doing good and growing normally in the eggs but don’t hatch. ( we opened one to check and see if they are growing right and the chick looked normal and the inside of the egg was moist. What could we be doing wrong?

By: admin

admin — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:17:19 +0000

Thanks Joe,
I would be willing to bet that 99.9 percent of the people that read this post were only interested in the information provided on raising quail. You however, took the time to read it and check it for grammar mistakes. I really do appreciate that.

By: Joe Lohnes

Joe Lohnes — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:26:04 +0000

I enjoyed reading your post and the information contained. Just a friendly FYI….your reference to: ‘to hot or to cold’ is using the wrong “to’….there are 3 different ones with 3 different meaning. The ‘to’ that should be used is: “too”. Joe n Colorado