Recent content by Stanpott

Wow! That is pretty awesome! I am glad I was wrong! Why are they so late? Is it the breed? Aren't quail usually 18 days? But thank you for the update...I really love it when people give updates, and even more when it is a fantastic ending!

I think it is OK.

I usually try to wait until the 504 hours have passed before I move the blanket. I grab out the dry chicks and the shells. In every hatch there are always a few that end up on top of the blanket. You will hear them because they get very distraught! I either tuck them back under or put them in...

I did come up with a regime I'll test next year on my next hatch that varies a bit from the nigerian study, I'll post it if anyone is interested, however I should mention the biggest difference, last hatch I concluded that the right waterbed temperature for day 18 is 37.5 (not the 37). I used...

That is late for quail, sorry, can't do much now but wait and see! Every egg that hatches is a small miracle, so really if anything hatches it is a good hatch, all you can do is try to do better next time, and you never know until it is over, maybe it will be a great hatch, maybe nuthatched is...

How is it going so far? I kind of summarized what I have done that has worked reasonably well for me. I have only hatched chicken eggs. Interesting enough the instructions that come with these incubators actually call for a higher setting for quail than for chickens, and yet to me it seems like...

I wrote this for some one I managed to interest in waterbed hatching. I tried to keep it brief, I'm not good at that! I have struggled to find a good set temperature for water bed hatching. The instructions they come with are just generic still air incubator instructions, but even in a still...

So many incubators are actually 12 volt and powered by an adapter. It is a great way to make a incubator universal. Some of them actually offer a cord you can plug in and clip to a car battery in case of a long outage, but most often they do not.

Three years ago I bought a cheap waterbed incubator. Since then I have become such a big fan of water bed hatching! It is just so simple, dry hatch, no moving parts, just a heat pad, a thermostat, a bag of water in an insulated box! The temperatures are amazingly consistent, so since the eggs...

I'd take them out, they'll be better off in the brooder, the others may or may not hatch, I feel like it is best to look after the chicks you know you have, but I know most will disagree with me and argue that chicks are fine in the incubator for three days!

The worst part of a bad hatch isn't so much the disappointment of only a few hatching but more so that the chicks that do hatch are more likely to have issues! Spraddle leg is a common one and can usually be fixed...would it be spraddle leg?

Look up "how to fix a slipped tendon" in a chick? I don't know for sure, but it kind of sounds like the issue.

They do seem to zip a little quicker when hatched upright, it might help, but insufficient weight loss often delays a hatch, so that extra day might be enough to help. I use egg weight loss to monitor humidity, but on day 17 there is very little you can do but wait and see! I guess my experience...

How do you know she isn't laying eggs? You wouldn't reasonably expect more than 5 or 6 eggs/day if they are all laying.

Both those eggs pipped the wrong end! Great that it turned out good! I'll never be convinced by the 'no turn' hatch people!