first time quail owner

[mama_mac_80]

I will be placing a batch of eggs in the incubator tonight or tomorrow. I have never used an incubator completely new to it and the quails so my question is am I doing everything correctly?
I have set the incubator up, temp 99.5 on digital, mercury thermometer in incubator is reading about 99.3 right now but only been going a couple hours. plan on running 99.5- 99.8 temp, humidity trying to get around 55 %, then 3 days before hatch change to 65-70% (how do I increase/desrease this, I have a farm inovaitor with fan and turner, is there an easy way to get water in slots when it gets low?) also i read somewhere about turning the turner off at 3 days before and taking it out to place a non skid pad on bottom, is this safe to remove the eggs to do this?
thanks!

 

[Yardpimp]

Sounds like you are on the right track.Yes it's okay to take them out to remove Turner, I usually heat up a towel in the dryer to lay them on (be very gentle) so they will stay good and warm.Humidity is controlled by water surface area, more area of water= more humidity and vice versa.Hope this helps and good luck.Also non skid surface is important to prevent splayed legs.

 

[paneubert]

I have a farm inovaitor with fan and turner, is there an easy way to get water in slots when it gets low?)
thanks!

I have the same incubator and the easiest way to get the humidity up is to stick a sponge in a cup of water. The sponge will wick up the water and raise the humidity. At first I just soaked a sponge and laid it in there on the same level as the eggs, but it dried out within 24 hours. The combo of sponge with a cup of water works much better. My humidity topped out around 65-70%.

The other option to get water in there without opening the top is to snake a tube thru one of the vent holes, down thru the wire mesh floor and into one of the water wells. I did that for the first 15 days, but changed to the sponge for lockdown.

 

[feedman77]

Humidity is very area subjective. What works for me might not work for you.

If I tried 55 percent humidity most of my eggs would have drowned chicks.

I use the dry (low) humidity during incubation. I try to keep humidity between 20 and 35 percent. So I usually don't add any water first 15 days. Then I jump humidity to 70 plus for lockdown and hatch.

If the eggs are fertile I've been averaging 90 percent hatch rate usually.

Quail eggs are usually pretty forgiving for hatching.

My advice is try a method. If it works well try to repeat it. If you don't get the hatch rate you wanted try another batch and make a small adjustment and see if it improves. Most adjustments will be humidity.

Good luck with your birds and upcoming hatch.

 

[Malikshahzad]

My question is that why my male quail not handle female quail for mating

 

[Malikshahzad]

i have one male and one female but still female not set with male completely ?

 

[Malikshahzad]

when my male quail try to mount female but he does not mating because female attitude ?