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Raising Gamebirds => Incubation => Topic started by: wildee on May 16, 2004, 06:27:25 PM

Title: Eggs starting the hatch in the incubator? or not
Post by: wildee on May 16, 2004, 06:27:25 PM

Hello everyone, im new to this hatching of eggsi have 2 button quails i have an incubator its day 20 and i only have 2 eggs in there egg 1 have a very small peck hole in it but does not look to be completly threw the shell, the peck was found day 19. egg 2 had a small crack line that went maybe 1/4 of the way around the shell now day 20 the crack is a bit longer and lifted a bit.
should i just leave them alone or ??? any suggestions any help would be great.

Title: Eggs starting the hatch in the incubator? or not
Post by: faro on May 16, 2004, 06:34:39 PM

I would leave them alone, as long as you see some activity. Sounds like the one with the crack half way around will be out soon. You want to keep the humidity as high as you can for them to hatch, if you open the bator you will lose alot of the humidity.

Do you know what your relative humidity is right now? Ideal would be around 75-85%

Good luck