incubateing pharaoh's quail

[lucasshane]

i have a big forced air incubator like the high hatch incubators from mcmurray

i want to raise a few of pharaoh's quail for the freezer and to use on our property.

i have read where the incubator temp needs to be at 99.5 and the humidity at 60%. how much differential can the eggs handle and still be successful ?


my incubator has an auto turner, auto temp, and a humidity controller that is tied to a humidifier.

any and all help would be great and thank you in advance !!

[lucasshane]

oh yea i have a cpl dial guages in there plus one digital therm / barometer. can i just go off the the digital guages ?

[Neil E. Grassbaugh]

i have a big forced air incubator like the high hatch incubators from mcmurray

i want to raise a few of pharaoh's quail for the freezer and to use on our property.

i have read where the incubator temp needs to be at 99.5 and the humidity at 60%. how much differential can the eggs handle and still be successful ?


my incubator has an auto turner, auto temp, and a humidity controller that is tied to a humidifier.

any and all help would be great and thank you in advance !!

We have a super-duper electronic digital GQF Sportsman as an incubator and use an old, I mean old, Sportsman with wafer thermostats sans turner for a hatcher.

When we hatch coturnix quail (1,000 eggs at a time) we do not change the settings from what we use for bantam chickens. 99.5/64% in incubator.

How do they hatch? Well let's just say it is more like cooking popcorn than hatching eggs.

[lucasshane]

i have GCF but im not sure the model or year.....ive had it for about ten yrs and never turned it on til thursday....lol

gave $75 for it when a friend went belly up with emu's

[tinag210]

Popcorn is about right! When you take the lid off the hatching tray they pop right out of it - be ready to catch. They are fast little buggers.

I also use a Sportsman and often hatch other eggs (chicken, guinea, pheasant) at the same time & always have good hatches. I do move the eggs to a hatcher to hatch.