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Well I think our main hatch is done & we had 25/45 hatch successfully. No “should I....shouldn’t I help” eggs & not one egg needed assistance at all. A lovely clean trouble free hatch - phew! Yay! & thanks all! I think your advice on humidity really helped. I will wait for that first pip before...

Hatching has started! Yay!!!!!

I should probably clarify - we’ve been successfully incubating & hatching chickens for 10+ years. We have many many different incubators, some suit certain species better than others.... - re-brooding we had a tried & tested routine... until the cat outsmarted it. Last year we had problem with...

Well, with quail I feel we’ve failed. We do better with chickens ducks etc, but quail seem to be harder to get to adulthood. It’s been variable but poor. One hatch of 14 live chicks - we lost them all over about 6 weeks to just insane outcomes.... that included the chick that managed to get...

It’s just too cold here too. Assume I know nothing.... (coz that would be right!) do infra red bulbs come in wattages? Do I need to do a volume calculation? I’m sure I heard somewhere red light can make birds aggressive? Is that even vaguely true? Would you mind telling me your thoughts on...

I’ve never used a bulb type heat source ever. This is the first time it’s been a serious option.... I know nothing! do you use infra red?

The really do push the boundaries on survival don’t they! I always think getting out of an egg looks traumatic enough & then there is brooding quail???? It’s a while other level of unexpected!

Just trying to keep them alive really! hubby thinks maybe I try too hard... and higher losses are just inevitable with quail - but as you say they really do push the boundaries of unexpected! Our hot plates are all “chick comfort”s with tiny narrow spindly legs - maybe that’s why the quail...

Yup had them wander away from the plate & get cold, at least one every hatch. I’m no expert with quail at all ... we seem to lose too many post hatch for quite frankly bizzare reasons? I’ve even had one get fatally entangled in paper towel when we tried that as bedding. So far never we’ve had...

This is our new hopefully cat proof brooder - I can fit a heat plate in. But it has a bulb thingy - it does hang quite low? I’m wondering if I should try using something in that as a heat source? Or is it too low / fire hazard..... Any thoughts? I don’t have to use it... it’s simply an option...

So these are what we’ve brooded successfully in for years.... until one of the cats worked out how to fish for chicks... the smaller the chick the more at risk it seems to be.

They look fab! Well done! We’ve been using sand for so long I’d forgotten why we’d moved away from shavings in the brooder, we are in a lockdown right now so having to improvise. We are also under avian flu restrictions so the majority of poultry that would usually free range is on bedding and...

It’s like you could see inside my brooder! ........ I was too late.... it wick-ed & one soggy quail cheerfully sitting in the flood..... it that had been the babes they’d be cold & dying. Thank you! Off to clean out the brooder.....

Hmmmm - Yup I’ve made exactly zero decisions.... hot plate / vs light.... paper vs shavings..... Quail definitely keep it creative! Somehow they manage to harm themselves no matter what I try..... They’ll be inside for the foreseeable anyway - we’ve got avian flu restrictions in place here. I’m...

How is brooding going? I was thinking about the brooder today - & the smell! I was thinking of trying wood pellets.... never tried them before with poultry....

Hi all, Just saying hi really.... everything set for lockdown... doing that thumb twiddling thing......reading the internet, learning stuff, remembering things we’ve forgotten since last time, all good! In interesting news we rehomed some jumbo quail today, beautiful girls, very happy to have...

Yup - that’s all fine - we’ve been using the hatcher for over a year now... I can adjust that no problem, ventilation is still plentiful. That’s great thank you! I’ll head to 30 and then aim to keep it around 50 from first pip. Thank you!!!

So that’s the incubator - the floor is slippery so the tray slides smoothly turning the eggs - it would be a death trap to attempt to hatch the quail inside.... I’d end up with quail stuck in the mechanism & splay legs ect. its simply not designed to hatch in - its designed to function as a...