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Leave the fertilized quail eggs untouched for one day after transportation. |
0 | 17 | Tuesday, January 31st 2023 | Start the incubation process: Clean and disinfect the breeding machine. Fill in the water. Put the fertilized quail breeding eggs into the incubator and mark them if needed. Set the incubator's humidity to 60%-65%. Increase the temperature in the incubator slowly to 37.7 centigrade. |
1 | 16 | Wednesday, February 1st 2023 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open. Dont turn the quail eggs. |
2 | 15 | Thursday, February 2nd 2023 | Keep the breeder closed. Don't open. Dont turn the quail eggs. |
3 | 14 | Friday, February 3rd 2023 | Keep the breeder closed. Do not open and dont turn the quail eggs. |
4 | 13 | Saturday, February 4th 2023 | Turn the quails eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. Check temperature and humidy inside the incubator. |
5 | 12 | Sunday, February 5th 2023 | Turn the quails eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. |
6 | 11 | Monday, February 6th 2023 | Turn the quails eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. Check temperature and humidy inside the incubator. |
8 | 9 | Wednesday, February 8th 2023 | Option: Take a special lamp and light up / light through the quail eggs. If you have enough experience with this, remove unfertilized eggs from the breeding machine. As a newbie, dont. |
10 | 7 | Friday, February 10th 2023 | Turn the quails eggs 3 to 4 times a day in different directions. Optionally from day 10 to 14: Open the incubation machine and let the fertilized quail eggs cool down for about 15 minutes. (Controversial discussion, the effects on the hatching result are not really proven.) |
11 | 6 | Saturday, February 11th 2023 | Same as day 10 |
12 | 5 | Sunday, February 12th 2023 | Same as day 10 |
13 | 4 | Monday, February 13th 2023 | Same as day 10 |
14 | 3 | Tuesday, February 14th 2023 | Put the quail eggs on a hatching pad. Stop turning the eggs. Increase humidity to 70-80% RH. Don't open the incubator anymore. |
16 | 1 | Thursday, February 16th 2023 | Be prepared to welcome the new-born quail chicks. Do you have a chicken home or bird chick brooder, a heater or a heating lamp, special quail chicks food, water ...? |
17 | 0 | Friday, February 17th 2023 | Quail chicks hatching day! End of incubation. Leave the quail chicks in the incubator for a day (optional). |
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18 | 1 | Saturday, February 18th 2023 | Move the quail chicks to a special bird chicks brooder or another warm and dry box. |
25 | 7 | Saturday, February 25th 2023 | The first feathers grow (7 days old). Reduce the temperature of heating step by step and day by day. |
35 | 17 | Tuesday, March 7th 2023 | End of additional heating. (If the room has normal temperature) |
45 | 28 | Friday, March 17th 2023 | Approximately beginning of gender separation (after 4 weeks and later) |
59 | 42 | Friday, March 31st 2023 | Approximately the earliest day your quail hens will lay eggs (6 weeks in summer or 2-4 week later, maybe in cold spring months, up to 12 weeks in winter) |
73 | 56 | Friday, April 14th 2023 | Approximately the time for slaughtering quail roosters (8 weeks or later) |
101 | 84 | Friday, May 12th 2023 | Approximately the latest day your quail hens will lay eggs (12 weeks, in cold months or in winter) |