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peter g
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I'm new to the forum but need some advice.
I bought 35 Jumbo Brown Coturnix Quail in September. The guy I bought them from said they were hatched May of 2013. I have them in individual pens with one cock and two hens.
I have a cabinet incubator I used to hatch out chickens with quite successfully set to 99.5 to 101.5. It has a automatic turner, the last 3 days I put them in the bottom/don't turn them and increase the humidity to 65-70%.
I feed Southern States 21% game bird Super Breeder.
The first 25 eggs only hatched 5 eggs.
The next 40 hatched 1 egg.
The next 55 hatched 0
The next 93 hatch this Tuesday and I would bet 0 hatch....
The cocks are matting, I've seen them.
What in the world could be happening that I've set over 120 eggs and hatched 6 quail?
There was only one eggs that showed signs of being fertile out of all those eggs that didn't hatch.
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Sounds like you have some poor male breeders. Replace them with some younger males. This has been a poor year for layers Ive seen in a long time. With my daughters chickens we've only seen a small handful of fertile eggs and there are several males in there. The last several Ive purchased and hatched its been around a 50% hatch rate. After breaking the shell a good portion never developed.
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