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Post by chowdownsilkiefarm on Jun 9, 2013 11:40:17 GMT -6
I set 120 quail eggs and 26 hatched. Out of the 120 47 made it to lock down. Out of the 26 hatched I had to cull 2. Not a good hatch rate. Out of the 73 that didn't make it to lock down they where either early quitters or not fertile.
Has anybody that got quail eggs from me had the same results? I now i'll be processing these breeders except for the ones I now are doing well and starting a new breeding stock out of only the largest birds. I failed to order another heating element for my cabinet so i'm still using my hovobator. I just keep forgetting to call and order it. I put an element out of an old LG and it keeps the temp stable but not high enough so I'll be adding another near the lower part of the cabinet but closer to the middle. I fried the coil element I had in there. It was touching a rail and melted to the rail.
All the eggs except the ones in the rail that had the element melted to it where the same eggs that I attempted to hatch so that may have been the problem. I'll be setting another 120 tomorrow and i'll find out if it was the problem for sure
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