What incubation temps and humidity? For quail ASAP please

[007Sean]

have you had success at 30% before?

Yes

 

[007Sean]

have you had success at 30% before?

Depending on your ambient Rh , you may or may not need to add water to get the humidity at 30%. That's why I stated, "everyone's set up will be different depending on location!"

 

[6-Hens-and-Me]

Depending on your ambient Rh , you may or may not need to add water to get the humidity at 30%. That's why I stated, "everyone's set up will be different depending on location!"

Brinsea EX model adds and monitors humidity Itself.

 

[6-Hens-and-Me]

All you have to do is program it to maintain a 30% humidity

 

[Nabiki]

I hatched my first couple hatches at the 50% humidity that Google recommended. I had horrible cases of curled toes and had to cull a few chicks and make shoes for more.

When I moved it down to 30% humidity, I had much better results. Now that I'm at 4200' I need to put the humidity closer to 40%, but I also now live in high desert where the ambient humidity is very low.

 

[Kiki]

Don't trust your incubator's readings.
Buy some of these before you set eggs:

https://www.amazon.com/Govee-Hygrom...54c63c327eb6c11a03e7c6ba30&tag=hyprod-20&th=1


I have great perfect hatches when incubating quail eggs at 25-30% humidity.
I only raise the humidity to 50 and only on hatch day.

 

[CliftonQuail]

I also have a Brinsea Ovation 56 EX with the automated humidity and I still put multiple sensors in it to monitor temp and humidity. @007Sean, @Nabiki and @Kiki are voices to heed. Sean has 57 years raising birds of various types and the other two have also been at it for many years.

 

[007Sean]

All you have to do is program it to maintain a 30% humidity

You will still need to check on it, glitches occur....therefore, the need for accurate, calibrated, independent sensors. There really is no such thing as a 'plug & play' incubator!

 

[Just Ranchin]

My last hatch I did dry hatch even though my elevation isn't high. Had good results under the circumstances. Humidity sat about 24-25% 100 to 100.5% temps. At lockdown bumped to 60-65% humidity. Was advised on this after struggling to keep humidity correct during the trial period of this incubator. Leaving it alone was far more stable than trying to fight humidity levels in a unit that would have to take the lid off to add water too. Will continue with this way as it worked really well. May be different for me with a different incubator but so far this has worked well.

 

[6-Hens-and-Me]

Just an update for @Nabiki and @007Sean I went with my gut and I let the incubator do its thing and I trusted what it was telling me, I did 45% humidity and 60%in lock down, out of the 54 eggs 49 hatched 3 were infertile 1 died during hatching and 1 died just before lockdown (want at the right stage) Just thought I’d update you on it, Also I wanted to know what breed of Coturnix quail these are, I’ve not got many of them and I’m not sure what breed they are