I bought a medical-grade infrared thermometer, so you'll get the correct temp readings. I have two other 'normal' infrared thermometer guns, and when I boiled some water, one was twelve degrees off and the other was five degrees off. Keeping the correct temps for my marine fish was a nightmare; six thermometers gave six different readings.
Thank you for such excellent information! We just had our first hatch at 50%. Several started to peck out but failed. Now I know the humidity wasn’t high enough. All your info is so helpful!
@14:00 + I started laughing because I know you are telling the truth. Birds are crazy. Thanks for the info in this video. My eggs should arrive sometime this month from you I think. I am super excited!
Perfect timing for viewing this video! My first batch of quail eggs will be going into lockdown today! Thank you for all of this info! Wish me and my eggs good luck!!!😊
Perfect timing on this video. I just started my first batch of my OWN eggs 🤗 didn't have a great hatch rate with my shipped eggs (to be expected) but realized a few of these things on my own so it's nice to get that confirmed and have a few more suggestions. Thanks for all your info and help!
Oh man this is helpful, my house sits at 4000 feet, we have huge temp changes in a day, like 50 degrees sometimes. We are more dry. Thanks for the good information. Hey, we ate our first quails I didn’t know how to cook them. Maybe, on this site, you could ask everyone to put in recipes? This is a really good learning site. Thanks a bunch.☺️
Excellent advice, received my order from you ....... thanks to you and your awesome wife for working with me on my order. I'm on day 7 with one incubator with the 59 eggs I got from you and my first attempt with 22 eggs from my first hatch of 14 quail (eggs I also received from you) in a second incubator. To any of the negative Nancy people that might be out there, keep this in mind good things are worth waiting for and with Myshire Farm products and customer service well exceed "GOOD" you guys are spectacular!!!
I bought 4 of the Govee Thermometers and put all of them in an empty running incubator. They were off from high to low 1.6 degrees. So thermometers lie also. Try this with yours and see what you get.
@@MyshireFarm I had them side by side in an empty incubator. I did not know they could be calibrated. Writing was so small on the instruction manuals, I chunked them suckers. Lol
I have 180 eggs incubating in three different incubators. Two are NR 360 and one is a Little Giant. The NR 360 fluctuate wildly in temperature and I have them in a heated room with a fairly stable. I have the same hygrometer/thermometer in each of the three units. The Little Giant remains fairly stable at 99.7 most of the time. It's gone up and down some, and I've made some incremental adjustments, but I am trusting it the most. The 2 NR 360 swing down as low as 98.7 up to 101.2. I've really been trying to stabilize them and having a hard time. They spend more time at around 100⁰ than below 99.5, but once they climb above 100 I bump them down a .5⁰ notch. Inevitably they drop back down below 99⁰. Its driving be batty. For the past few days they have held alright between 99.7 and 100. They go into lockdown in 2 days and I'm hoping they will give me at least a few chicks. The NR 360 both rose to 101 for at least a couple hours while I was at work. I think the Little Giant eggs will be fine though. Anyways, cant wait to see, the results of this "experiment."
I've trying to hatch for a yr. Out of all the eggs I've tried to hatch I have about a dozen successes. I'm not giving up on getting it right. Hopefully this video fixes my issues. I've always been focused on humidity but failed to check the temp with an outside thermometer. My incubator is 5 degrees off. Hopefully adjusting it will 8mprove my results. Thank you for the video.
Thanks Zach, I'm wondering if you have done a video about when, why and how to cull? It's a concern for me. I don't want my birds to suffer in life or death.
well quail raisers i have not had a hatch rate under 50 since i got rid of that thing i purchased off e bay and that was three years ago i saw a video by wayne rush on building styroform cooler incubators and yes they work i dropped 24 a month and 1 week ago for they will be six weeks saturday ended up with 19 hatching out
Yes I need a thermometer /H combo My friend gave me his incubators with an old school thermometers but I think the humidity reading is off Temp stable and reading good I fill it up through the outside and it still reads 30% and water will start coming out the bottom I think it might only fill up one section I went ahead with the incubation because I had good eggs piling up and had stable temperature When I start lock down I will bump that humidity up and I should have that if I order it now to test cuz I know my incubator is liening somewhere lol It's handy to find things online we live so far away from stores and they don't carry everything your looking for
@@MyshireFarm thanks I also just remembered that they hatched in a different incubator probably because that humidity problem.... I think that's what I will do this time around getting it ready first We will see how it goes and next time make any corrections Thanks
Thank you Zack. I am high altitude dry desert. Generally my humidity is about 16% in my house. I was not able to get humidity up to 70% during my empty "test" run. I've got eggs in my nuture360 now. I'm thinking I will try spritzing my eggs during lockdown.
I know it sounds messed up lol I laughed when you said it, but I like to listen to the stories on how creative they get to die, be kinda educational on what to look for too.
could please make a video on how to build or buy the home brooder with heat lamp setup..this will help with next steps after chicks hatch and how to ensure they continue to survive..thanks
Thank you for the video, I feel like I followed your tips pretty well when hatching out my quail other than maybe letting the humidity get to high during lock down my nurture right 360 and govee which was inside the entire time were showing 72 on the low side and at the highest 78 for humidity during lock down, my temp on the incubator was off by .5 degrees according to the govee so I ran the incubator at 100 the entire process. I ended up with 11 live chicks and one partially hatched chick which died out of the 30 eggs. I started lock down on the morning of day 15 and they hatched on day 17, I wonder if I would have started increasing humidity on day 14 if I would have had a better hatch? Anyway thanks again for the video!
@@MyshireFarm yea they were shipped, I had received a message on a Friday and had active tracking info on Saturday but didn’t arrive until the following Thursday, which I wasn’t real happy about since I live only 2 hours away from your location. I realize that’s the fault of the post office not Myshire farm, the eggs were very well packaged and I didn’t find any broken
Recommended: Incubation from day 0 to 14/15: Temperature 99.5 (.5 variation is ok) + 45% humidity Lockdown from day 14/15 to 18: Temperature 99.5 + 65%-75% humidity
From store bought what would you recommend? Mine have all died out and I'm looking to purchase a new one.... Also I'd like you to try the cheap amazon incubator if you ever get extra time. It's been my best go to incubator. I've tried all the name brand ones and had lots of different issues, my very first was a 50$ ish amazon incubator and Ive had much better hatch rates with it than I did with all the others
@@Kristen-6325 the yellow top one on Amazon I'm sorry I don't know the name, has a clear bottom yellow top, might be able to find you a link but it's pretty cheap but I've had great success
For beginners I like the nurture right 360, the little giant did well for us as well. Here is a few reviews we did so you can decide what works best for you. ru-vid.com/group/PLpKHTa21ardaQfqo7Kq5bkspi0Ed7CP2O
@@MyshireFarm yeah I've tried both and they don't work well for us... Motors quit or won't hold humidity, or just don't keep heat well... I've tried most of the smaller ones and I'd like you to test the other... I'd like to see how it goes for you... From my experience they are tougher to get humidity up there but I've had much better hatch rates from the cheap ones than the newer ones as of lately
Thanks again Zach, BUT you never talk about ULCERATIVE ENTERITIS and other diseases. I sorted my birds for size, 1 week later some are no longer 9oz, they are skin and bones and hunched. Please address this issue!!!!
It mainly sounds like a feed issue. I would get them on a 28% pheasant or turkey starter and keep them on it for 3 weeks before switching to a layer feed
Hi Zack i plz need your advise,i builded my own incubator begause i want to start quail,i baught 200 eggs and it wil come this week,so i tested my incubator with 24 of my chicken eggs,i started candling in day 3😬 begause youtube had lot of videos where thye candle everyday to see the growth,so i also did it,23 were fertile but everyday after candling i found more and with bloodrings,by day 7 i only had 5 eggs with babys still moving,can this also be a temp problem?
@@MyshireFarm any idea how to get it stable,maybe my fans are to smaal thye are two 5volt fans,orr maybe i should buy knew rubbers for my incubator its also a normal refridgerator that i turned into a incubator,maybe its not sealinig good🤦🤦but thank u for taking the time to respont and keep up the good work my friend
Can they hatch out there own eggs I have a friend up the road from me that original only had gotten like 25 but every year he said and I have seen new ones and babies show up he built a massive aviary for them in the winter but lets them free range his property all year long could this be the reason also we're in Colorado
Hi Zack..Please recommend which one is better than other ? Farm innovators vs Manna Pro 360 ? I found your video on Manna Pro couldn’t find the farm innovators..thanks
The room with my incubator seems to be staying at 54% humidity. Just starting up my new nurture right 360 today the incubator is showing 27% humidity after running 4 hours. Any suggestions for my trial runs?
Hi Zach, I have a question about the tempreture on the incubator. if the iincubator tempreture is 99.5 and if my termometer in the incubator is showing lower tempreture what can i do .
I put 116 eggs in my incubator day 14 I candled all but 2 we're viable day 17 I had a big hatch of around 45 quail day 18 I had another 8 to 10 hatch but those all died ?!?! Curious if this is normal ?
Zack I bought 2, govee.put them in my incubator, one side said,99.7,the other side said 101.2,then I had another one said ,98.5,the other one said,97.5,but the two govees and ech side say something diff6,in fact all for say a different number. I had bought 110 eggs,and checked them when lock th down was,I found about 20 not fetal at all,well I had 8 that was full turm.but didn't hatch,then 6 that was very very small and didn't hatch.u r eggs. But all my thermometer and hydrometer, 2 where govees,what should I do,so what would u do on this hun,also can I feed my babys laying crumbles,