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sara | November 30, 2007
If you are breeding quail and incubating their eggs it is important to keep a record of hatchability and to calculate the percentage hatchability because this will help in evaluating incubation and hatch efficiency.
Calculating Hatchability
The percentage of hatchability is the percentage of eggs which actually hatch out as live young.
% hatchability = number of eggs hatched [...]
sara | November 29, 2007
42 coturnix japanese quail eggs have been in the incubator for 17 days.
19 quail chicks hatched out unaided.
6 quail chicks hatched out with assistance.
2 eggs had partially formed chicks inside.
15 eggs were not fertile.
Currently only 2 of the quail chicks have died.
Quail Egg Hatch Rate - 25 quail eggs hatched out divided by 42 quail eggs in [...]
sara | November 29, 2007
42 coturnix japanese quail eggs have been in the incubator for 17 days.
19 quail chicks hatched out unaided.
6 quail chicks hatched out with assistance.
2 eggs had partially formed chicks inside.
15 eggs were not fertile.
Currently only 2 of the quail chicks have died.
Quail Egg Hatch Rate - 25 quail eggs hatched out divided by 42 quail eggs in [...]
sara | November 28, 2007
The quail eggs started to hatch out yesterday and today we have 16 which have steadily hatched out since teatime yesterday.
This evening we transferred 16 quail chicks to the brooder and as promised here are a couple of photos of the quail chicks.
A couple more eggs have pipped in the incubator so there may be [...]
sara | November 28, 2007
The quail eggs started to hatch out yesterday and today we have 16 which have steadily hatched out since teatime yesterday.
This evening we transferred 16 quail chicks to the brooder and as promised here are a couple of photos of the quail chicks.
Quail ChickQuail Chicks
A couple more eggs have pipped in the incubator so there [...]
sara | November 28, 2007
In the early hours of the morning (2.45am to be precise!) I was awoken to the sound of barking. I jumped out of bed and peered through the curtains to ascertain what was making the noise. I couldn’t see anything. Steve and I decided to get up and check that everything was ok with the [...]
sara | November 27, 2007
The quail eggs in the incubator have just started to hatch out. They have been in the incubator for just over 2 weeks. I turned off the automatic egg turner on day 15 and now one quail has hatched out so far. The breed of quail is the coturnix japanese quail which take 17 days to [...]
sara | November 26, 2007
A couple of weeks ago on my usual Saturday search for the photo hunters, I came across a very interesting post all about a farm that became a successful amusement park. Ellen @ The Happy Wonderer was the author of the post. I was so taken with this article that I contacted Ellen to ask if [...]
sara | November 25, 2007
This wooden reindeer garden ornament is one of my favourite possessions and it resides in our orchard all year long. The reindeer was made for me by my husband as a Christmas gift a couple of years ago and is the perfect gift. As villagers walk up and down the lane they will often admire [...]
sara | November 24, 2007
Sick pigs are a worry. This week I went out to feed the pigs and just as I had given them their feed, suddenly both Cagney and Lacy started to be sick. I had given them a couple of apples which is not out of the ordinary and their barley and pig concentrate mix. I thought that [...]
