Get Better Hatch Rates - Quail hatch rates explained 

Have you hatched shipped eggs? If so, where did you get your eggs and what kind of hatch rate did you get. If you have any other tips to help others get better hatch rates, post them below. Thanks and good luck with your hatches!

Great advice video!

I definitely get smarter listening to you every time I watch. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. Blessings and more Blessings to you and your family

Just arrived today great advice for a beginner, Blessing

Well explained clip! Thanks for your advice

Great info...thanks for posting!!

Going to hatch a dozen eggs for pets this spring, thanks for the video!

I’ve made loads of notes. Great video 👍👍👍👍

Just got my first 100 egg batch from my shire farms Jenna is a doll ! Helpful and kind highly recommend them !

Thank you for your information it was very helpful for me from Australia

Thank you for the advice. I tried a batch before but none hatch only saw some partially developed. Will try again with the advice you given.

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Thank you for doing this information

You have good advice. On quail thank you

Good advice!

I'm hatching some now and ur a lot uf help

great info. Thanks

Great explanation Thank you , from Sri Lanka

Awesome information

Wanted to add some anecdotal evidence to the pile for those plastic containers, I ordered 36 eggs and did the standard procedure which normally yields a 80-90% hatch rate. Only 3 hatched, then I found this video to try and figure out what could have happened... wish I had found it sooner lol Don't buy eggs shipped in the plastic cartons, Terry is not kidding around when he says the eggs won't hatch.

I’ve hatched 18 Quail so far from eggs that I bought from Asian Super Markets! I just grabbed them out of the fridge! Really! (-:

Thanks buddy cheers Ricky 🙏🐈‍⬛🐤💥

We bought from Myshire farm. Hatched 41 of 60 after po held them for 12 days. Amazing quality.

Great video! I appreciate your knowledge. I just started to raise quails and chukars. What kind of digital hygrometer thermometer you recommend for an incubator? Thank you.

I had a hatch rate of 100% on my last incubation.. I was so shocked 😲

thank u

What do you mean by lockdown? Great video, hence the questions 👍👍👍

Can you recommend a secondary digital hygrometer/temperature gauge please? I have discovered GQF quail rails are too small and not working well. Are the little giant racks & turner a good fit? From the video it looks like you have Little giant turner/rails and the eggs are fitting in nicely. Thanks

I am going to incubate quail on my channel nice video

Great video Terry ! I just had a hatch of coturnix chicks 4 days ago, hatched 24 out of 42 set. That's a 57% hatch rate on shipped eggs, I was pleased. I followed the exact procedures you described in this video and things went well. My only issue was that there was temperature fluctuation in my incubator, Genesis Hovabator 1588. It's 15 years old so I may buy or build a new one. I used 4 thermometers, 1 calibrated analog and 3 digital to monitor temps. Looking forward to setting eggs from my own quail once they're old enough. What kind of hatch rate is reasonable to expect with eggs from my own quail in a breeding group of 1 roo to 4 hens? Thanks for another helpful video, keep 'em coming my friend.

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What egg turner do you use and do you have on an egg timer?

I get mine from Myshire too. 😁 I had a terrible hatch rate. It was completely my fault. Zach was so helpful even though it was outside of normal business hours.

Just got my quail eggs from Kansas City quail farm this will be my second hatch ever. Hatch day is around October 28th. I’ll post an update then. Wish I came across your video sooner, my first hatch came off amazon and were shipped in those plastic containers, 14 out of 42 hatched. Not very good. Great video! Thanks for the tips!

I am a small quail keeper. mostly for my own use. have successfully hatched and raised quail before. Right now I have 13 quail (3/10 ratio) Something I have always done, but don't know if it's needed is when storing the eggs for incubation, I have always put them in the egg turner with the cover off and turner on. Then, when I am ready to start, I just put the cover on and turn on the incubator. I have a Farm Innovations incubator. Styrofoam, from Tractor Supply. I also just use the chicken rails that came with it. I'm not going to bother getting the quail rails until I can justify a 120 bird hatch. What are your thoughts about the way I store hatching eggs?

What size hose do you cut to put for your ventilation on your incubator you built

I have heard many pushing the 5 hens per male, up to 6 and even without issue. But the average is 5 yes.

What is the brand and model of the meat thermometer that you use?

I also do a dry hatch

Do you let the rooster live with the hens? I have two males/six females and live in a large rabbit cage. I've kept them separate but I want to breed them.

Hi there so the eggs for fertility which are ready for incubation, are the ones that the old rooster had his wicket way first?

Hi there when you say it should be 1 rooster to 23 or 4 hens. Do you mean they have to be caged as a group on their own. Or can you for example, have 10 roosters to about 40 hens. Same ratio but all put together in one cage. So any rooster can bonk any 3 or 4 hens he wants to? I’ve jotted loads of info down. Cheers 👍👍👍👍

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I'm hatching my personal quail eggs and I'm at 15/3 83% I lost 3, 2 pipped and closed I think, 1 was deformed. Also, I don't get my lockdown incubator in time and because of that, I had to reorganize and ended up with multiple hatching in the turner.

I have a question. If you have eggs that are a week apart, how does the humidity work? Cause when the one eggs are supposed to be at 40-55% when turning and the ones at lock down are supposed to be at 65% humidity?

In a couple of days I'm gonna incubate some Californian quail eggs. Does anyone have any tips?

Plz give me more info on dry birth.

CAN YOU HAVE NOT ENOUGH HENS PER ROSTER?

Where can I get the shipping foam

Thanks for your videos and advice. Are very helpful. I have a question. If I want to add roosters to my hens, how soon can I expect fertilized eggs after mating them? how many days should i wait?

How can you add more eggs after a week without problems

Did you put eggs in the turner with pointy side down?

we're can I get mountain quale eggs , I had a pare and my female died .

For us hatching rate is 30%only, even we are following same conditions,what actual temperature and humidity level

Im absolutely positive the post office mistreated my eggs the whole way. When I picked my eggs up, the lady that handed them to me just kind of tossed them up on the counter. Tomorrow is hatch day so we shall see

Can you have to high humidity? I always keep my humidity at 65 to 70 percent the whole process.

Terry has a more recent video proving that turning the eggs does not really matter.

7:16 For personal reference

Hello. If you had ONLY two choices of 99 degrees Fahrenheit OR 100 degrees Fahrenheit on your forced air incubator which would you choose for Mandarin duck eggs?

I got my eggs from Ebay, I am on day 16 now. And hope they are doing well

Is it a problem for the chicks still in the egg when hatched chicks are fumbling around jostling those guys? If I opened up the unhatched eggs and many of them had zero development does that mean unfertilized? The folks who got eggs from those hens before us had 100% hatch rate. Ours was miserable. 😕Two had developed quite a bit. One almost all the way and should have hatched. Didn't even pip.

Terry, any data available on male/female ratios per 100 hatched?

Can the incubator temp determine the sex by raising or lowering it? Works at some alligator farms. Would it work for quail?

I find it very strange that quails have to be hatched in an incubator. I mean how did they procreate in the wild? We had quails when our boys were little and they always sat on their eggs, hatched them and cared for their chicks. Why can't they do it now?

Where did you buys your thermomitors?

Where did you find your poop trays? Price and site?? Thanks

I've literally hatch THOUSANDS of eggs WAY before foam was ever used for shipping.

Half my birds (12) were straddle legged. What causes that? Thanks

I have 10 hens and 1 rooster currently in my 6x3 cage. Im concerned about the roosters fighting if I add another. Do you think thats enough room to safely add another rooster? Only 3 eggs out of 14 were fertile but I don't want them fighting and ending up hurting each other, or worse 😳

I'm on an island in the Philippines. The humidity here is 79%. Will this cause me problems?

Do u ship u eggs if do how I get contact you to buy eggs

Do eggs need to sit before placing in incubator?

Do you ever sell quail? I live just to the north of you and have had one cage going for almost a year.

Where in Sw Florida? I am in Lehigh.

Where can I buy fertil eggs?

What's lockdown mean?

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I raise and sell coturnix quail eggs.I is not a get rich quick deal.Lot of work and expense.In Michigan the NPIP certification cost is 300 bucks ,Then you have to pay the blood testers.The foam packaging material is great but not cheap. The feed is not cheap..If the sales are sporadic then you end up eating a lot of eggs yourself so that you can keep the eggs you sell for hatching fresh.If you sell small orders then there is a good chance that they have one of those toy type incubators they got for Christmas. Hatch rates can be really iffy.And then they blame you ,at least some people will.I started out with eggs from Myshire,,100 eggs.I hatched out 37.and then 2 of those died a couple days later.I did not blame Zach at Myshire.I raised those bird and then raised more off of those.Did a lot of tweaking and finally I was getting my hatch rate around 90%. I have 2 incubators and one always does better than the other one.Go figure! I moved 200 birds into my basement for winter.Not for the birds but for me..I have to feed and clean twice a day then carry all the poop outside to a dump pile near my garden.Lights are not the same as good old sunlight is and the timing of the lights affect egg size and quantity ..You can't hatch double yolkers.My sales are starting to pick up and boy am I grateful for that. It really helps with my feed bill. If I had it to do over again I think I will just close up shop around Nov or Dec. Then I would buy a couple hundred eggs from Myshire Farms the next February and start new hatch ,be back in business again by late march,Since most all of my pens are movable I will be way ahead of the game. Oh I forgot ,That stuff about humidity is way more important than you think so you better monitor it and raise it to like 70 or above around day 14 or you will have some problems because of it. Hope this helps somebody. Bob from bobsquailhouse gmail

I thought a quail is a quail. Didn’t know there are different ones. What are the best quails for quality of meat and producing eggs? 👍👍👍👍

you mean hotter less water on the fifteen or more water more humidity meaning less water?. More humdity an more water more humidity less water. Setting key should be changed? To higher humidity keeping watering to daily top-up 10ml to 7ml?