By this time I was starting to get discouraged, but I was still checking on them every hour to see if anybody hatched. Days 16, 17, and 18 came and went with no chicks. The brooder was set up and warm and I had freshly ground chick food waiting. The Hatchįinally, day 16 arrived and I eagerly awaited the first chick. I bought the book, “Alice in Wonderland” and every day I would go sit near the incubator and read a chapter or two out loud. It might have been a bit silly, but I decided to go the same route with the eggs. BingoĬhickens will talk to their chicks through the shells before the chicks hatch to start bonding and to help the chick learn the mother hen’s voice before they hatch.
BUTTON QUAIL INCUBATION HOW TO
I was born and raised in America and because of this, I don’t know how to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit off the top of my head so I hung a small flyer on the wall to help me read the temperature on the incubator to make sure it was at the proper levels. My incubator worked amazingly and was extremely reliable, I just had one small issue… It only read Celsius. At this time I was planning on hatching more clutches and selling the chicks to good homes. They were marked with a pencil E1-6 and B1-6 so I could make sure to keep track of the chicks each adult pairing produced. I set 6 of Echo’s eggs and 6 of Baby’s eggs. The incubation for my little guys went fairly smooth.
After this removal, I discovered that I had 10 eggs that still looked very good! Some of the eggs The eggs are also candled one last time before lockdown and any eggs that didn’t make it are removed. For buttons, I raised the humidity to 65% and lowered the heat to 98 degrees along with putting a no-slip shelf liner on the incubator floor. If you use an egg turner in your incubator it must be removed at this time to prevent harm to the chicks and if you manually turn the eggs this must be stopped. During this time the humidity is raised, the heat is lowered, and the incubator is not opened again until after the chicks are hatched. Lockdown is the word people use to describe the time directly before the eggs hatch. On days 13-14 the eggs go into “lockdown”. Button quail eggs take about 16-18 days to hatch and must be kept right around 100 degrees and 50% humidity for the majority of the incubation. I had the incubator running for a few days before I set the eggs to make sure that everything was running smoothly and I knew how to work it. The word “set” simply means “to put eggs in an incubator or under a hen”. The day I set the eggs was especially exciting. Faraday Charlie (left) and Echo (right) The Incubation
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