Date eggs set: 9th January 2009
Number eggs set: 35
Eggs set: 24 Texan A&M bought from River Side Quail, 11 own eggs from ‘group 2′ (quail)
Comments: 9/1/09 – eggs from River Side Quail in poor condition, none broken from posting but very dirty, some with pattern ‘worn’ off. One egg chipped with glue or clear nail varnish added to cover, this egg marked with cross and circle. Only eggs from ‘group 2′ used this time to test fertility.
Date turner stopped: January 24th, 2009
Date eggs hatched: 27th/28th January
Number hatched: 13
Dead in shell:
Empty:
Comments: 5/2/2009 – glue that was on egg melted and covered another egg, neither hatched. 4 chicks born with bad feet, 3 dead a few days after hatching. 5 eggs started pipping but never hatched.
Number chicks alive at 1 week: 9, all with feathers come through nicely
2 weeks:
3 weeks:
4 weeks:
[...] started keeping a log this time as well, it’s part of my ‘be more organized in 2009′ [...]
[...] quail chicks are doing well though, eating and drinking very well and feathering up well. I think they’re [...]
This looks very organised. Keeping a record is a good idea.
Kind regards
Sara from farmingfriends
Disappointed as well as surprised regarding your comments regarding the eggs you received from riverside quails, having used Joy Brown for my eggs on 2 occations i have found my eggs in perfect condition, further more the help and advice from Joy really improved my hatch rates, as i’m a quail newbie…lol, i experiences similar problems with my first hatch, curled toes indicate chicks too big for there shell (incubator too hot) and dead in shell after pipping would indicate the humidity is low and or not consistant. Hope this post is of some use to you.
All the best
Stuart
I’m sure Joy has a great service, and I am very aware that Christmas isn’t the best time to be buying hatching eggs too.
Thank you for the bit about curled toes, I had never managed to work out what causes this, I’ve just bought a new temperature gauge which should hopefully sort this out.