I received my eggs from you guys a few weeks back. 160 followed your directions on humility and temp. We hatched 111 of the 160. We did loose 4 but all the others are doing great. Thanks for the videos and help. Don, Greensboro NC

I like all your Videos Zack, thanks and keep them coming.

Zack, if you recall I was having a problem with poor hatch rates when we chatted at Quail Con. You gave me several ideas of things to check, but we finally solved the issue, and it was none of them. It turns out that we were getting micro-cracks on the eggs. We don’t use rollouts, and the quail kept knocking the eggs around. Very few broke, but when we candled them prior to incubation, we found about 30-40% had little cracks that flowed under the candling. We isolated the “good” eggs from the bad and found we got about an 80% hatch rate on the good versus a 17% hatch rate on the bad. Problem solved!

Loving all the information! Thank you!

Thank you so much for making these! Taking all the notes for my first hatch 💗

Thanks for the helpful tip’s had a bad hatch but from watching this it’s definitely the humidity at lockdown 👍🏻 putting more eggs in today

True I just took the temp in my incubator......1.8 degrees higher than the readout

Excellent information, I have some things to correct before I order from you again ...... but order I shall.

This helps so much! My incubator warns of always unplugging before opening and I never knew why. You explain it super well, thank you! My problem has been my cats jumping onto the incubator in the very early development stages

Thank you Zack, I am following from Haiti 🇭🇹 and your advices are helpful for me. You're doing a great job.

So helpfull, insane, years of knowledge, successes and failures in a 10 minute video. So thankful

I learned so much in this short video. So many answers. Thank you.

Zack you are a Champion! Keep going mate. More of you and the world would be a better place.

Thanks for the video. I hatched a chick that looked like it’s legs were screwed on backwards. Not much feathers, mostly bald.

Thanks for sharing for great informative video👍

Thank you so much for this video! It's explained so many issues that I've been having on some of my hatches. Very informative!

Thanks so much for all you do.

ty. so many of my questions were answered but raised some more. lol. very well-done video. I look forward to the next one.

This information is invaluable! Thank you!

Very well explained 👍

Thank you so much for this helpful information . This is the information which I was looking for. I'm also one of those who are hatching 20% hatch rate.

Great video. So much great information in a short time. Thank You

Thanks for the timely info!

I was searching for jumbo quail info and ended up to your channel

Wonderful information!

This video was so helpful and time appropriate for me--thank you! I'd like to buy some quail eggs from you this spring and have been working out newbie issues with my incubator, so I have a successful hatch rate when I finally get quail eggs from you. My first batch hatched 9 out of 40. I fixed a few issues. This last batch hatched 39 out of 88 but was spread out over 4 days. I think this video helped with the last remaining tweaks I need to do to have a higher hatch rate. Can't wait for the freezing cold to leave Colorado so I can get some of your eggs shipped! Thanks again!

Thank you so much for this!

Great information!!! thank you for doing this video.

thank you, I think everything you mentioned is worthy to my lesson.

Happy to get this information now, thank you

Great video! Thanks for all the valuable information.

Thanks x1000! So helpful. My family is getting me some jumbo eggs from you in the next few days for my b-day. Already got my govee for Christmas. Hoping to join the 80% club this hatch. I'll let you know brother.

Right on Great info Ty sir 🙏

Great info you're providing.

I have really learned a lot from you information and I’ve been really enjoying my quail raising. It’s really a great choice of bird raising for us in Alaska. They fit in nice quaint cages produce eggs all year plus grow so fast as a great food source. I have gotten a few nieghbors ready to start doing the same. Granted they aren’t as big a chickens but they’re every bit as good and bettter for their durability and productivity. I love quail❤️😎

Super good video. Thank you.

Great info Thank You!

Great explanation!

Very informative thanks

SUPER informative

I really appreciate this video, I am prepping for Quail, and my first step in any prep is to learn what I can, watch or read things over and over until I understand and retain the information. So Thank you so much for your time and effort. This is a journey I am looking forward too.

Very helpful thank you

Again thanks for this - currently incubating Myshire eggs and waiting

Very helpful!!

Out of the 30 you sent us.. 4 were duds.(we only bought 25) Out of the 26 of us first timers 19 are in their brooder 🤗 had we watched this we probably would've been even more successful! Thank y'all for such due diligence! That incubator 🤢 needs to be cleaned after any use!

Thanks great video!! Saved you time later for the sanitizing ??? Later!! On my way with my 50/50 Listerine spray!!

We been letting our chickens go broody and rais there peeps for us for years. We're a small family farm, and it works for us. We would like to start quail, but after watching this video. Wow , qual seems way to complicated for simple folk like us. Not to mention buying all the fancy digital temperature gadgets and incubators for a bite-sized 😋 meal.

Is it possible to order eggs for a specific date in the spring? I want to get started in quail but it has to be at a later date, it was -17 this morning. I am looking into the different types of incubators, brooder set ups and also cages. Have raised poultry for 40+ years but this is a whole new experience for me. Thanks for all of your helpful information.

GreAt video.

Very good video. Do you have some ways of increasing humidity?

I live in the south and our humidity is different than a lot of other places. I’ve got a 360 incubator and my hatch rates aren’t even 15%. I’m on day 19 and not a one are peeping . Do you any suggestions at all?

I bought a medical thermometer. 2 degrees lower temp than household thermometer.

Bro love from INDIA

I m shauqat ali from delhi. Currently doing quail farming from past three month.

So if your incubator says it’s at 100.5 but your govee is at 95.7 you’d increase the incubator to get the govee to the right temp?

Maybe cleaning with Edited 3% hydrogen peroxide NOT running alcohol alcohol spray (for cleaning eggs, too) would be okay, like between freeze drying food loads? My stores do not sell Listerine (brown kind)

Hi My last hatch was a dissected. Only about 40% hatched. As I stated taking the un-hatched eggs out, I realised that they were much heaver than normal eggs. Some of them had fully developed quail chicks inside ☹. I started dry hatch (as advised by soneone in UK) and added water on day 14. Humidity were between 80% to 95% from day 14. It was about 20% before day 14. Any idea what may have happened. PS: I am live in the UK so I do not think I will be able to get hold of your colourful quails ☹.

Please inform us about the pheasant egg hatchery.

I had a few on my last that unzipped but didnt break thru the membrane. Wanted to know what the cause is and if it could be corrected. Thanks

If you have some hatching on day 17 all through day 19, how do you avoid opening the incubator and causing humidity issues?

Why not just spray rubbing alcohol vs listerine to disinfect?

I've got perfect steady 37.5C in the incubator, but the surface of eggs varies between 36 and 40 ... What should I do, should I chace any specific egg surface temp? Please reply, it's been now 22 hours since placed, 17 hours since reaching optimal steady temperature. No one is talking about this, I am currently using 4 different termometers and all of them are showing different, the instant "head termometer"" I use to check surface temp, and that's the highest ones...I placed 1 layer of thin napkin above eggs, to reduce direct light, hopefully that will slow the surface overheating. Anyway, no one is measuring this in any video...What is wrong and right after all ?

What do you think of Little Giant incubators?

If I may add something from my testings, it may help lots of breeders as well. What I have spotted: The best humidity during the incubation is 10%-35%. Anything above 45% is causing curled toes. Egg needs to loose around 13% of the weight and it's water in it. So if humidity during the incubation is higher, it can't be done. Then chick may make internal pip, but will be drown in a water. Sometimes they make it to external pip, but they won't hatch usually for the same reason. I see some people incubating at 60% and asking why they have bad hatch rates. As for deformities, they tend to show if eggs are not properly stored, are old or are coming from bad breeders. I find it could be combination of two. I hatched out some eggs from breeders and I have noticed the same pattern of eggs, they were between 10-14 days old, got some crossed beaks, no eyes and legs deformities. I hatched from mine 1-15 days old eggs couple of times, no deformities. Dry incubation helps too. Wry necks are showing usually after 3rd day and on chicks that hatched as last (probably weaker), it was very common with my old celadons... I tried during the lockdown range of humidity from 45% to 85%. The best results are between 45%-65%. As for turning, if placed on a side, it's not needy but must be very good air circulation. If placed pointy side down, turning is necessary, I had very bad results as not turned. That's from what I have seen. I think everyone should at least once try dry incubation. Good insolated incubators are 50% of success. Brinsea, Borotto and Rcom are very accurate, there I can say they don't lie 🙂

Can you teach us how to make conveyor belt for manure control?

Do you really have to candle the eggs? If you don't then you wouldn't have as much temp change.

Why not help them crack out at day 18?

Bro can you send the quail fertilized jumbo quail eggs to india?

Put a picture on that bare wall. Kids are good or birds are fine.

Or you lose power because the cat knocked the cable out